Extra Credit Questions
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09-09-2023, 02:07 PM
Post: #4246
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Outstanding, Anita! Here is an article I came across:
![]() It's part of "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Excerpts from newspapers and other sources Illuminating aspects of this most well-known Presidential speech References to Lincoln's Coach Car From the files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection" https://ia800308.us.archive.org/30/items...00linc.pdf |
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10-09-2023, 07:35 PM
Post: #4247
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
No googling please.
Who said this? "Lincoln had the tenderest heart for any one in distress, whether man, beast, or bird." |
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10-09-2023, 08:12 PM
Post: #4248
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Pure guess, but Leonard Swett?
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in 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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10-09-2023, 08:14 PM
Post: #4249
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Someone he knew in New Salem?
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10-10-2023, 07:09 AM
Post: #4250
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Tad perhaps?
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10-10-2023, 07:40 AM
Post: #4251
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
David Davis?
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-10-2023, 07:51 AM
Post: #4252
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
All are good guesses but incorrect. Anita, the correct answer did not live in New Salem.
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10-10-2023, 08:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2023 08:01 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #4253
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Someone during the White House years?
A male? |
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10-10-2023, 10:41 AM
Post: #4254
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Think earlier.
Yes, your gender is correct. |
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10-10-2023, 11:42 AM
Post: #4255
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Herndon?
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10-10-2023, 11:58 AM
Post: #4256
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Henry Clay Whitney ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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10-10-2023, 12:51 PM
Post: #4257
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Good guesses. Of the two, Eva is closer.
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10-10-2023, 01:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2023 01:39 PM by Anita.)
Post: #4258
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Joshua Speed?
or maybe his best man James Matheny |
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10-10-2023, 02:22 PM
Post: #4259
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Yes, Anita. Well done!
The quote comes from a lecture Speed delivered which was published in 1884. Speed told the following story to explain why he included "bird" in his statement about Lincoln's tender heart: "Six gentlemen, I being one, Lincoln, Baker, Hardin, and others were riding along a country road. We were strung along the road two and two together. We were passing through a thicket of wild plum and crab-apple trees. A violent windstorm had just occurred. Lincoln and Hardin were behind. There were two young birds by the roadside too young to fly…. The old bird was fluttering about and wailing as a mother ever does for her babes. Lincoln stopped, hitched his horse, caught the birds, hunted the nest and placed them in it. The rest of us rode on to a creek, and while our horses were drinking Hardin rode up. “Where is Lincoln?” said one. “Oh, when I saw him last he had two little birds in his hand hunting for their nest.” In perhaps an hour he came. They laughed at him. He said with much emphasis, “Gentlemen, you may laugh, but I could not have slept well tonight if I had not saved those birds. Their cries would have rung in my ears." |
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10-11-2023, 10:24 AM
Post: #4260
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-10-2023 02:22 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Yes, Anita. Well done! Roger, I found this post (in part) that I made on May 12, 2014: I wish to add two more stories on the subject from one of my favorite Lincoln books -- "Lincoln Talks, a Biography in Anecdote" by Emanuel Hertz. One story is directly on point; the second story has a tangential "animal kindness" reference. 1) We had passed through a thicket of wild plum and crab trees, and stopped to water our horses, when Hardin came up alone. "Where is Lincoln?" we all inquired. "Oh," replied he, "when I saw him last he had caught two young birds which the wind had blown out of their nest, and he has been hunting for the nest so as to put them back." In a short time Lincoln came up, having found the nest. The party laughed at him but he said: "I could not have slept if I had not restored those little birds to their mother." -- Joshua F. Speed (page 95) "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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