Extra Credit Questions
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06-21-2013, 12:38 PM
Post: #1081
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Have fun shopping, Eva! And if he overcharges you, even if by mistake, make sure he walks all the miles to your residence with the change he owes you.
__________________________________________________ Who said that Abraham Lincoln told him the following: "You know better than any man living that from my boyhood up my ambition was to be President." |
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06-21-2013, 01:45 PM
Post: #1082
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Mr. Lamon?
Bill Nash |
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06-21-2013, 02:01 PM
Post: #1083
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Kudos, Bill. Very good. Indeed it was Ward Hill Lamon as quoted in the New York Tribune, July 26, 1885. Lamon said Lincoln told him this during the war.
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06-21-2013, 02:02 PM
Post: #1084
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Thank you sir. I had come across the quote a couple weeks ago and remembered it.
Bill Nash |
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06-21-2013, 02:20 PM
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06-22-2013, 05:49 AM
Post: #1086
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Who said about A. Lincoln:
"Why, if the old Greek had had this man, what trilogies of plays - what epics - would have been made out of him!...But Lincoln, his times, his death - great as any, belong to our own." |
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06-22-2013, 07:37 AM
Post: #1087
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Was it Walt Whitman?
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06-22-2013, 08:06 AM
Post: #1088
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Very good, Roger, you hit the mark! He said this in 1879.
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06-22-2013, 09:34 AM
Post: #1089
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's.
Was I ever surprised. Evidently in his day he was quite a singer, and went by the nickname of "Slim" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUROKcDOvvk So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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06-22-2013, 12:24 PM
Post: #1090
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(06-22-2013 09:34 AM)Gene C Wrote: I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's. And, Gene, He just died a few days ago at the age of 90. Joe |
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06-22-2013, 05:51 PM
Post: #1091
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(06-22-2013 09:34 AM)Gene C Wrote: I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's. Gene, do you know this book? It's very good! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345458...ttom_links |
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06-22-2013, 06:21 PM
Post: #1092
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Eva,
I haven't read that one. I did read one by the same author called the Lincoln's - Portrait of a Marriage". There were a few things in that book I didn't agree with, but he does have a good writing style thats easy to read. So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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06-24-2013, 12:29 PM
Post: #1093
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
This lady is the wife of a man mentioned frequently on the forum. Her first name was Lida. To whom was she married?
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06-24-2013, 12:45 PM
Post: #1094
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Osborn Oldroyd.
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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06-24-2013, 01:13 PM
Post: #1095
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Good job, Rob! You are correct - it is Lida Oldroyd.
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