 | Periodicals - 1895 - 628 pages
...been something more than common that these men struggled for." Besides these books he borrowed many. He once told a friend that he " read through every...that country, for a circuit of fifty miles." From everything he read he made long extracts, using a turkey - buzzard pen and brierroot ink. When he had... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell, John McCan Davis - Presidents - 1896 - 256 pages
...been something more than common that these men struggled for. " Besides these books he borrowed many. He once told a friend that he "read through every book he had ever heard of in that country, fora circuit of fifty miles." From everything he read he made long extracts, using a turkey-buzzard... | |
 | Anna M. Clyde, Lillian Wallace - Months - 1898 - 138 pages
...LINCOLN STUDYING BY FIRELIGHT. Abraham was always a great lover of books. He once said that he " had read through every book he had ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles." After his day's work was done, he would stretch himself out on the floor, and study and read by the... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 312 pages
...made mistakes and was guilty of follies, like other men. Besides these books he borrowed many others. He once told a friend that he "read through every...that country, for a circuit of fifty miles." From everything he read he made long extracts, with his turkeybuzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 314 pages
...made mistakes and was guilty of follies, like other men. Besides these books he borrowed many others. He once told a friend that he "read through every...that country, for a circuit of fifty miles." From everything he read he made long extracts with his turkey-buzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - United States - 1900 - 332 pages
...loss, but after that the injured book belonged to the studious boy. Lincoln once said that he had " read through every book he had ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles." He would read and cipher after his day's work was done; he would often be found stretched out on the... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Presidents - 1902 - 476 pages
...not amount to more than a year," and he afterwards told a friend that he " read through every booh he ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles." These included Weems's " Life of Washing ton," Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress," ^sop's " Fables," "... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 300 pages
...made mistakes and was guilty of follies, like other men. Besides these books he borrowed many others. He once told a friend that he "read through every...that country, for a circuit of fifty miles." From everything he read he made long extracts, with his turkeybuzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Readers - 1904 - 246 pages
...anywhere in his neighborhood, he was sure to hear about it and borrow it if possible. He said himself that he " read through every book he had ever heard of in that county for a circuit of fifty miles." And how he read ! Boys who have books and magazines and papers... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...accidentally got wet while he was using it. He once told a friend that he " read through every book that he had ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles," and from everything he read he made long extracts with his turkey-buzzard pen and brier-root ink.7... | |
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He once told a friend that he "read through every book he had ever heard of in that country, for a circuit of fifty miles. 
