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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1)
Lincoln 1860
King or Chief of Franks armed with the Seramasax, from a Miniature of the Ninth Century
When the Franks took root in Gaul, their dress and institutions were adopted by the Roman society. This had the most disastrous influence in every point of view, and it is easy to prove that civilisation did not emerge from this chaos until by degrees the Teutonic spirit disappeared from the world. As long as this spirit reigned, neither private nor public liberty existed. Individual patriotism only extended as far as the border of a man's family, and the nation became broken up into clans. Gaul soon found itself parcelled off into domains which were almost independent of one another. It was thus that Germanic genius became developed.
Costumes of the Franks from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries
The period known as the Middle Ages, says the learned Benjamin Guérard, is the produce of Pagan civilisation, of Germanic barbarism, and of Christianity. It began in 476, on the fall of Agustulus, and ended in 1453, at the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II., and consequently the fall of two empires, that of the West and that of the East, marks its duration. Its first act, which was due to the Germans, was the destruction of political unity, and this was destined to be afterwards replaced by religions unity. Then we find a multitude of scattered and disorderly influences growing on the ruins of central power. The yoke of imperial dominion was broken by the barbarians; but the populace, far from acquiring liberty, fell to the lowest degrees of servitude. Instead of one despot, it found thousands of tyrants, and it was but slowly and with much trouble that it succeeded in freeing itself from feudalism. Nothing could be more strangely troubled than the West at the time of the dissolution of the Empire of the Caesars; nothing more diverse or more discordant than the interests, the institutions, and the state of society, which were delivered to the Germans
Remains Lying in state at Chicago
Remains Lying in state at Chicago
Brick House at Jamestown
Brick House at Jamestown, about 1640. (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.)
Simple Frame
Landing at Jamestown
Brick House
Brick House type at Jamestown
Half-Timber
Early Jamestown House
AN EARLY JAMESTOWN HOUSE. (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.)
Pottery
Pottery at Jamestown There is good evidence that a pottery kiln was situated 30 feet west of the “industrial area.”
Well at Jamestown
Cross section of a brick-lined well at Jamestown (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.)
Row House type at Jamestown
Row House type at Jamestown
Ironworking Pit
How an ironworking pit was used.
Abraham Lincolns home in Springfield
Last Rites
Family 1861
Funeral Procession
Entering Richmond
The Death of Abraham Lincoln
Raising flag at Independence Hall
Funeral Arch on the Hudson
Assasination at Ford's Theatre
Inaguration
Letter to Mr Raymond
Poem
Proclamation of Emancipation
Kentucky