 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1925 - 462 pages
...the Illinois Legislature. And was a member of the lower house of Congress. Yours, etc., A. Lincoln. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.1 "It seems as if the question whether my first name is 'Abraham' or 'Abram' will never... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 508 pages
...Compromise aroused me again. If any personal discription of me is thought desirable, it may be said that I am in height six feet four inches, nearly; lean...and 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 of... | |
 | Education - 1909 - 680 pages
...repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since that 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... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...description of me is thought desirable," he wrote, in providing material for an 1860 campaign biography, "it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches,...complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes." That laconic self-description, accurate though it is, fails to suggest the strange and striking effect... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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 brands recollected. 36. Oratorical Climax: THE COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1925 - 458 pages
...the Illinois Legislature. And was a member of the lower house of Congress. Yours, etc., A. Lincoln. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. 1 "It seems as if the question whether my first name is 'Abraham' or 'Abram' will never be settled.... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1925 - 478 pages
...the Illinois Legislature. And was a member of the lower house of Congress. Yours, etc., A. Lincoln. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.' "It seems as if the question whether my first name is 'Abraham' or 'Abram' will never be settled. It... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...Rabelais."52 "If any personal description of me is thought desirable," Lincoln had written two years before, "it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches,...black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected."53 He was "not a pretty man," his law partner, Herndon, thought, "nor was he an ugly one:... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 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. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLB. 1. " Abraham Lincoln enters 500 acres of land on a Treasury warrant on... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...with a terse sketch that reviewed his homespun beginnings, summarized his public career, and ended: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes — no other marks or brands recollected." This he sent to Fell, noting, "There is not much... | |
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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... 
