Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 362
en have ever more definitely and persistentlyworked out what was in them by clear intelligencethan Mr. Lincoln; and no speaker or writer of ourtime has, according to his opportunities, trained himselfmore thoroughly to the use of English prose. Of educational opportunity in the scholastic sense,the… … 330 Men Who Have Risen to acquire it. This pursuit soon became a passion, andthis deep and irresistible yearning did more for him,perhaps, than richer opportunities would have done. Itmade him a constant student, and it taught him thevalue of fragments of time. He was always at the head of his…
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