Excerpt from Nancy Hanks Lincoln: A Sermon Delivered at All Soul's Church, Chicago, February 8, 1903 This is my life, and that is all you or anybody else 'can make of it. And, adds the reporter, Mr. Lincoln seemed painfully impressed with the extreme poverty of his early surroundings and the utter absence of all romantic and heroic elements. It was better thus, perhaps, for this child of the backwoods. He Was thrown back the more surely on the ultimate resources of his own manliness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Nancy Hanks Lincoln: A Sermon Delivered at All Soul's Church, Chicago, February 8, 1903 This is my life, and that is all you or anybody else 'can make of it. And, adds the reporter, Mr. Lincoln seemed painfully impressed with the extreme poverty of his early surroundings and the utter absence of all romantic and heroic elements. It was better thus, perhaps, for this child of the backwoods. He Was thrown back the more surely on the ultimate resources of his own manliness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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