. : [booklet]. ENGLISH GRAMMAR J familiar rhcrmms, • „1 V, - , yr 11 . SEW SYSTEMATIC* DRIVER 0#--FAB<Sjy»J, SI&tEMOTPCSCTUATION, EXIiRCteESE? KAX<trNTA. .•s: A KBHT TO THE «& THE USE OF. ASD ?M*i ? ;•?-?? ^ajl SMSFCtSWAOTj THE KIRKHAMS GRAMMAR USED BY LINCOLN AT NEW SALEMFrom Life of Lincoln, published by Doubleday, Page & In 1831, while clerking in a grocerystore at New Salem, Illinois, Lincoln de-termined to study grammar in order to fithimself better for public speaking andwriting. He walked fourteen miles forthis book. On the counter of the stor
. : [booklet]. ENGLISH GRAMMAR J familiar rhcrmms, • „1 V, - , yr 11 . SEW SYSTEMATIC* DRIVER 0#--FAB<Sjy»J, SI&tEMOTPCSCTUATION, EXIiRCteESE? KAX<trNTA. .•s: A KBHT TO THE «& THE USE OF. ASD ?M*i ? ;•?-?? ^ajl SMSFCtSWAOTj THE KIRKHAMS GRAMMAR USED BY LINCOLN AT NEW SALEMFrom Life of Lincoln, published by Doubleday, Page & In 1831, while clerking in a grocerystore at New Salem, Illinois, Lincoln de-termined to study grammar in order to fithimself better for public speaking andwriting. He walked fourteen miles forthis book. On the counter of the store,or in the shade of a tree, he worked forhours on its rules. He later gave thisbook to Ann Rutledge, his early sweet-heart. The words on the title page, AnnM. Rutledge is now learning grammar,were written by Lincoln. The order inLincolns hand on James Rutledge waslater pasted on the inner cover by RobertRutledge, whose widow came into pos-session of this most interesting relic. Lincoln worked for his learning;worked for it long and hard ; worked forit in a way only less remarkable than theresult he obtained. He had the wisdomto recognize that an education was indis-pensable to him, and the courage, like-wise, to pay the price. His grammar heknew by heart, his law books became apart of his mind. He says his habit wasto bound a subject north, south, east and w
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