 | Sherwin Cody - Literature - 1917 - 404 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." Lincoln's Personal Appearance Horace White, who reported Lincoln's joint debates with Douglas for the... | |
 | Arthur Lee - English language - 1917 - 340 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,...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... | |
 | John Thomas Morris Johnston - Biography - 1917 - 662 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...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... | |
 | La Salle Corbell Pickett - History - 1917 - 398 pages
...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,... | |
 | Philip Robert Dillon - History - 1918 - 378 pages
...time onward, he steadily rose, as a lawyer and orator. He closed his autobiography with the following: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...gray eyes — no other marks or brands recollected." He omitted to record the important fact that he married in 1842, Miss Mary Todd. Four children were... | |
 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 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." An unusually modest estimate of one who within a year was to be elected President of the United States.... | |
 | Samuel Scoville - 1918 - 100 pages
...as I would gain in a year's sowing." Here is Lincoln's own account of his appearance at this time: "I am in height six feet four inches nearly, lean in flesh, weighing on an average of a hundred and eighty pounds, dark complexion, with coarse, black hair and gray eyes. No other marks... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - English language - 1919 - 280 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,...and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. Notice how frank Lincoln is in his sketch. There is no attempt to appear other than he really was and... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 456 pages
...aroused me again. "If any personal description of me is thought de-so sirable, it may be said that I am in height six feet four inches, nearly; lean...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected." 25 I am not undertaking to deliver an oral biography of Abraham Lincoln, and shall pass over the events... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 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,...eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black Kair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. Tours truly, A. LINCOLN. Prepared for a Popular... | |
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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... 
