Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 368
n asked how he had attainedsuch extraordinary clearness of style, he recalled his earlyhabit of retaining in his memory unfamiliar words orphrases overheard in ordinary conversation or met inbooks or newspapers, until night, meditating on themuntil he got at their meaning, and then translatingthem… … Scene at Lincolns Early Home. 334 Men Who Have Risen art of expression soon bore fruit in a local reputationboth as a talker and a writer. His facility in rhymeand essay-writing was not only greatly admired by hisfellows, but awakened great astonishment, because thesearts were not taught in the…
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