The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . givinglight by which he might pursue his studies. Probably the boys mother had something to do with thespice-wood illuminations. Tradition has it that Mrs. Lincolntook great pains to teach her children what she knew, andthat at her knee they heard all the Bible lore, fairy tales, andcountry legends that she had been able to gather in her poorlife. Besides the A B C schools, as Li
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . givinglight by which he might pursue his studies. Probably the boys mother had something to do with thespice-wood illuminations. Tradition has it that Mrs. Lincolntook great pains to teach her children what she knew, andthat at her knee they heard all the Bible lore, fairy tales, andcountry legends that she had been able to gather in her poorlife. Besides the A B C schools, as Lincoln called them, theonly other medium of education in the country districts ofKentucky in those days was preaching. Itinerants like theschool-masters, the preachers, of whatever denomination,were generally uncouth and illiterate; the code of morals theytaught was mainly a healthy one, and they, no doubt, didmuch to keep the consciences of the pioneers awake. It is diffi-cult to believe that they ever did much for the moral trainingof young Lincoln, though he certainly got his first notion ofpublic speaking from them; and for years in his boyhood oneof his chief delights was to gather his playmates about him,. VIEW OF ROCK SPRING FARM, WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN From a photograph taken in September, 1895, for this biography. The house in whichLincoln was born is seen to the right, in the background See page 14
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