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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-20-2023 08:43 AM
No googling please.
Whose words are these in describing Abraham Lincoln?
"Here was an heir of poverty and insignificance, obscure, untaught, buried throughout his childhood in the frontier forests, with no transcendent, dazzling abilities, such as make their way in any country, under any institutions, but emphatically in intellect, as in station, one of the millions of strivers for a rude livelihood, who, though attaching himself stubbornly to the less popular party, and especially so in the State which he has chosen as his home, did nevertheless become a central figure of the Western Hemisphere, and an object of honor, love, and reverence throughout the civilized world."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 11-20-2023 02:27 PM
I'll guess Churchill even though honour is not spelt the way that he would have spelt it.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-20-2023 04:57 PM
Nope, not Churchill. The correct answer was a contemporary of Lincoln.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-21-2023 08:36 AM
Hint #1: The correct answer is male, and he has been mentioned before on this forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-21-2023 10:06 AM
John Hay ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-21-2023 12:47 PM
Nope, not Hay. The correct answer did not live in the White House.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-21-2023 02:39 PM
It appears to me that the person was a writer, so my wild guess is William Dean Howells.
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-21-2023 03:33 PM
Excellent thinking, Rob, as he was indeed a writer, but it was not Howells.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 11-21-2023 06:01 PM
Karl Marx?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-21-2023 06:19 PM
Nope, not Marx. The correct answer was an American.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-22-2023 08:11 AM
Walt Whitman ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-22-2023 08:42 AM
Nope, not Whitman.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-22-2023 01:19 PM
This is a toughie. How about Edward Everett?
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-22-2023 03:40 PM
Nope, not Everett.
Hint #2: Despite the quote in the question the correct person was not always a fan of Lincoln during his presidency.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-22-2023 04:29 PM
I guess Horace Greeley because of his writing style. The use of past tense and content sounds like it was written as part of a eulogy. I sense the conflicted relationship he had with Lincoln over many years. Maybe I'm overthinking it!