. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . se, so set at naught mans most mathematical statement that 1 out of nothing, nothing can come. Ex nitiilo niJiil fit murmured classical Bert. Is nt this one of the cases in which you can say that the exception proves the rule ? inquired Roger. Perhaps so, Uncle Tom replied, and yet it is even more one of the cases that show ho\v wonderfully and howwisely is plotted out the making of a mightyman. See how carefully Lincoln was whittledout to fit the place he was sent to fill. Hebegan life away d
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . se, so set at naught mans most mathematical statement that 1 out of nothing, nothing can come. Ex nitiilo niJiil fit murmured classical Bert. Is nt this one of the cases in which you can say that the exception proves the rule ? inquired Roger. Perhaps so, Uncle Tom replied, and yet it is even more one of the cases that show ho\v wonderfully and howwisely is plotted out the making of a mightyman. See how carefully Lincoln was whittledout to fit the place he was sent to fill. Hebegan life away down — a poor white on ascrubby hillside farm. His father was shift-less ; his mother was overworked ; he him-self was a forlorn and ragged little son of thesoil. He had uphill work to learn his lettersand get an education; but he got one. Henever wrent to school more than a year in all the days of his life put together ; but he never stopped studying. Strong, sinewy, good-natured, obliging; with a will of his own, but always con- GLOBE TAVERN, Lincoln lived after his HOUSE WHERE PRESIDENTLINCOLN WAS BORN. From a sketch from memory, in possession ofR. T. Durrett, Esq. 2O2 THK CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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