Lincoln's Own Stories (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lincoln's Own StoriesMarked degree They were told for a purpose. He was not a professronal story-teller That rs, he drd not tell stones for the sake of explortrng hrs humor. He told them as they were called into berng by events, sometrmes to Illumrne an argument or to controvert one, very often to conceal hrs purposes or to throw some persrstent rnqurrer off the trarl, at trmes to let down an ardent o¿ice-seeker gently. But he was a man of rnfinrte 1681? In the most human sense, and If thrs modest comprlatron serves to accentuate hrs krndlrness and patrence, hrs tactfulness and sagacrty, hrs great patrrotrsm and wrsdom, hrs unselfish devotron to the hrghest Ideals, rt wrll help to a closer understandrng of one of the great characters of the world's unfoldrng drama.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.