If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am in height six feet four inches, nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds ; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other... The Educator-journal - Seite 5341902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1914 - 394 Seiten
...using the homeliest illustrations. "If any personal description is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean...with coarse black hair, and gray eyes. No other marks and brands recollected." He was fond of metaphor drawn from life on the farm. W7hen he allowed Greeley... | |
| Grenville M. Dodge - 1914 - 266 Seiten
...then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said : I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly ; lean...pounds ; dark complexion with coarse black hair and grey eyes; no other marks or scars recollected. My first acquaintance with Mr. Lincoln was in Council... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 Seiten
...then is pretty well known. " If any personal description of me is thought desirable it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly ; lean...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." Defeat Brings Victory. — Only one of the things done by Lincoln after 1854 need be mentioned. In... | |
| Jasper Leonidas McBrien - 1916 - 300 Seiten
...generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused...point where he became a figure of national importance. His political philosophy was expounded in four elaborate speeches; one delivered at Peoria, Illinois,... | |
| Walter Barlow Stevens - 1916 - 86 Seiten
...it may be said I am, in height, 6 feet 4 inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average 180 pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." This, the only story of his life Lincoln wrote, he dated "Springfield, December 20, 1859," although... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1917 - 404 Seiten
...then is pretty well known. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly ; lean...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." Lincoln's Personal Appearance Horace White, who reported Lincoln's joint debates with Douglas for the... | |
| Arthur Lee - 1917 - 340 Seiten
...since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in .height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean...and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from a letter This brief and modest story of his own life, up to 1859, is taken from... | |
| La Salle Corbell Pickett - 1917 - 398 Seiten
...of guns, all bring him before me as a friend. I look beyond the description he once gave of himself, "Height, six feet, four inches, nearly ; lean in flesh,...complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes." A free-hand sketch like that is easy, but my memory fills the outlines with the subtle beauty of soul,... | |
| John Thomas Morris Johnston - 1917 - 662 Seiten
...then is pretty well known. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable it may be said, I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average of one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks... | |
| Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 Seiten
...generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." An unusually modest estimate of one who within a year was to be elected President of the United States.... | |
| |