The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and BurialStinson & Company, 1881 - 384 Seiten |
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... character , events , and time . It is , however , in the moral effect upon the readers that the writing and study of biography places its highest claims . It encourages the young , gives hope to the hopeless , warns the careless ...
... character , events , and time . It is , however , in the moral effect upon the readers that the writing and study of biography places its highest claims . It encourages the young , gives hope to the hopeless , warns the careless ...
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... character . The youth of America will read it , and be reminded that they , too , can make their " lives sublime . " In answer to your letter , I have not time to write an Very truly yours , JOHN D. LONG . COLONEL R. H. CONWEll . The ...
... character . The youth of America will read it , and be reminded that they , too , can make their " lives sublime . " In answer to your letter , I have not time to write an Very truly yours , JOHN D. LONG . COLONEL R. H. CONWEll . The ...
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... character . Whatever else was true , in him a great American heart throbbed at the centre of govern- ment . There may have been question of some of his personal selections , but the nation's relation to other nations has suffered ...
... character . Whatever else was true , in him a great American heart throbbed at the centre of govern- ment . There may have been question of some of his personal selections , but the nation's relation to other nations has suffered ...
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... Character of the Students . - Garfield's Habits as a Student . Enters the Junior Class . - His Modesty . Friendship of President Hopkins and Professor Chadbourne . His Truthfulness at College . His Graduation.- Classmates , 102 ...
... Character of the Students . - Garfield's Habits as a Student . Enters the Junior Class . - His Modesty . Friendship of President Hopkins and Professor Chadbourne . His Truthfulness at College . His Graduation.- Classmates , 102 ...
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... of minute developments and of varied experiences , " the genealogical history of his ancestors will be shown to be of the first im- portance in forming an estimate of his ability and character . If it be true , as now claimed.
... of minute developments and of varied experiences , " the genealogical history of his ancestors will be shown to be of the first im- portance in forming an estimate of his ability and character . If it be true , as now claimed.
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Seite 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Seite 218 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Seite 228 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Seite 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Seite 219 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Seite 350 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Seite 369 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Seite 329 - Republic; but by four millions of Republican firesides, where the thoughtful voters, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and country, with the history of the past, the hopes of the future, and reverence for the great men who have adorned and blessed our nation in days gone by, burning in their hearts — there God prepares the verdict which will determine the wisdom of our work to-night.
Seite 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Seite 226 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.