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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... land in their choice of habits , professions , companions , and political principles . It is surely a remarkably transparent and pure life . Yet we have too much confidence in our nation to think that even his life is a very great ...
... land in their choice of habits , professions , companions , and political principles . It is surely a remarkably transparent and pure life . Yet we have too much confidence in our nation to think that even his life is a very great ...
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... land , abounding as it does in incidents of motherly devotion , heroism , and love , and in accounts of the sublime courage , affection , and self - sacrifices of true wifehood . It is the earnest hope of the writer that the biog- raphy ...
... land , abounding as it does in incidents of motherly devotion , heroism , and love , and in accounts of the sublime courage , affection , and self - sacrifices of true wifehood . It is the earnest hope of the writer that the biog- raphy ...
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... land smiles with the promise of plenteous harvests and with the happy homes and returns of thrifty industry ; in a country the very atmosphere of which is freedom , where no man's lips are tied , and where no man lives who has not ...
... land smiles with the promise of plenteous harvests and with the happy homes and returns of thrifty industry ; in a country the very atmosphere of which is freedom , where no man's lips are tied , and where no man lives who has not ...
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... land . Associated with Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester , favor- ite of Queen Elizabeth , The Family in Wales . - The Home of Edward Garfield in Chester , England . - The First of the Family in America . The Coat of Arms.- History of ...
... land . Associated with Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester , favor- ite of Queen Elizabeth , The Family in Wales . - The Home of Edward Garfield in Chester , England . - The First of the Family in America . The Coat of Arms.- History of ...
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... land on the bor- ders of Wales , near Chester , England , through the influence of Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester . A natural inference would be that he had performed some military service on the Continent , under that celebrated ...
... land on the bor- ders of Wales , near Chester , England , through the influence of Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester . A natural inference would be that he had performed some military service on the Continent , under that celebrated ...
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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.