 | Abraham Lincoln - 1912 - 180 pages
...canvasses, I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." There is the whole story, told by himself, and brought down to the point where he becomes a figure... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...that he was easily understood where others failed. He says of himself in his own short autobiography: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable it may be said that I am in height six feet four inches, nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred... | |
 | Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction - Holidays - 1913 - 216 pages
...repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable...pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and pray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected^ Springfield, December 20, 1859. THE NAME OF LINCOLN... | |
 | Grenville M. Dodge - United States - 1914 - 266 pages
...repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...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... | |
 | History - 1914 - 394 pages
...alluded to he did not refrain from using the homeliest illustrations. "If any personal description is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height,...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... | |
 | United States - 1914 - 398 pages
...alluded to he did not refrain from using the homeliest illustrations. "If any personal description is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height,...with coarse black hair, and gray eyes. No other marks and brands recollected." He was fond of metaphor drawn from life on the farm. When he allowed Greeley... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. " If any personal description of me is thought desirable...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 - Patriotism - 1916 - 302 pages
...Compromise aroused me again. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said that I am in height six feet four inches, nearly; lean...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." * There is the whole story, told by himself, and brought down to the point where he became a figure... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - Presidents - 1916 - 86 pages
...repeal of the Missouri compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable 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... | |
 | Jasper Leonidas McBrien - Patriotism - 1916 - 300 pages
...canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said that I am in height six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred... | |
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... law more assiduously than ever before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done... 
