...In my poetizing mood, I could not forget the impression his case made upon me. Here is the result: But here's an object more of dread Than aught the...dangerous strength to bind, And soon, a howling, crazy mart, Your limbs were fast confined: How then you strove and shrieked aloud, Your bones and sinews...

...Gentry poem, which may be found in the complete works of Lincoln, reads as follows: — But here 'a an object more of dread Than aught the grave contains...form with reason fled While wretched life remains. In the letter sent to Johnston enclosing the verse, Lincoln says: 'If I should ever send another (poem),...

...himself. After visiting a childhood friend who had become insane, he composed thirteen stanzas beginning: "But here's an object more of dread / Than aught the...with reason fled, / While wretched life remains." What indeed could be more horrifying than insanity to one who prized rationality and self-control?58...

...who became "furiously mad" at age nineteen, and then "gradually settled down into harmless insanity." But here's an object more of dread Than aught the...form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child — Now locked for aye, in mental night,...

...impressions his case made upon me. Here is the result — But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains — A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child — Now locked for aye, in mental night,...

...therein. OEVELOPMENT ANO OEFENSE part ene EPISTEMOLOCY, CRITICAL THINKINC, ANO CRITICAL THINKINC PEOACOCY Here's an object more of dread. Than aught the grave...contains, A human form with reason fled, While wretched hfe remains. — Abraham Lincoln chapter 1 BEING A CRITICAL THINKER requires basing ones behefs and...

...v. 1 , p. 385. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains — A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. "The Maniac," c. September 6, 1846, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1, p. 385....

...impressions his case made upon me. Here is the result — But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains — A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child — Now locked for aye, in mental night,...

...those impressions. Here are the first several stanzas: But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains — A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune- favored child — Now locked for aye, in menral night,...

...Secret Constitution (NY: Oxford, 2001); Easier, Collected But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains — A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. The poem went on through twelve stanzas describing Gentry as, "Once of genius bright, — a fortune...