Works; with English notes for the use of schools and colleges (Latin Edition)
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Selections from the First Five Books: Together with the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Books Entire. Chiefly from the Text of Alschefski. with English Notes for Schools and Colleges
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The Works of Horace: With English Notes / by J.L. Lincoln (Latin Edition)
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John Larkin Lincoln was an American author, latinist and teacher.
Background
John Larkin Lincoln was born on February 23, 1817, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was of English stock, sixth in descent from Stephen Lincoln, husbandman, who emigrated from Windham, England, in the seventeenth century. His maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Larkin, also came from England in the seventeenth century. He was himself the son of Ensign and Sophia Oliver (Larkin) Lincoln. His father, printer and publisher in Boston, was a man of strong religious convictions and similar convictions his son always held.
Education
Trained for four years in the Boston Latin School young Lincoln was ready for college at thirteen but, "to fill in the time, " remained at school, graduating as valedictorian and entering Brown University at fifteen. He was graduated with honors from Brown in 1836. During the years 1837-1839 he studied at Newton Theological Institution but nevertheless chose a collegiate career. He spent three years in Europe, where he studied philology and theology at the universities of Halle and Berlin (1841 - 1843). Among his distinguished classical teachers was Bernhardy. He spent the year 1843-1844 in travel and study, mainly in Geneva and Rome.
Career
Lincoln worked as a tutor for one year in Columbian College, Washington, D. C. and for two years as a tutor in Greek in Brown University. Later he was made an assistant professor, then in 1845 a full professor of the Latin language and literature. In 1857, and again in 1887, he refreshed and increased his equipment by travel and study in Greece, Germany, and Italy. From 1859 to 1867 the University granted Lincoln part-time absence to conduct a school for young women.
He was a born teacher. He twice refused to leave his life work for a college presidency elsewhere. He made his teaching of Latin a medium for the appreciation of beauty in all literatures and was "quick to feel and to point out the deeper philosophical ethical lesson" in a given text. His unfailing wit and humor relieved his indefatigable demands for exactitude in scholarship and he was one of the bestloved men on the teaching staff. Significant evidence of this affection was the gift of $100, 000--at that time a large sum--collected by grateful graduates and friends in order that Lincoln "whether teaching or not, " might always receive his full salary. His human interest in student life is also reflected in the name, "Lincoln Field, " given to the old athletic grounds.
Lincoln's published works include Titus Livius: Selections from the First Five Books, Together with the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Books Entire (1847, 1871); The Works of Horace (1851, 1882); and Selections from the Poems of Ovid (1882, 1884). The clarity of his commentaries gave perspective to the study of Latin by many thousands of American students outside of Brown University. From his numerous essays some of the more characteristic on classical subjects are reprinted in the memorial volume published in 1894.
There is an admirable portrait of Lincoln by Herbert Herkomer at Brown University. It reveals a face of spiritual beauty, intellectual vigor, and human kindliness.
Achievements
Lincoln was remembered for his annotated editions of Livy, Horace, and Ovid. He also contributed many articles to the North American Review, the Christian Review, the Baptist Quarterly, and Bibliotheca Sacra.
The Lincoln School in Providence, established in 1884, was named for him.
