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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... whole world , betraying its gen- uine faith and hope in the American republic , lifts its outstretched arms , and its hands are filled with the lilies of sympathy for us and for him . No decree issued through the secret channels of ...
... whole world , betraying its gen- uine faith and hope in the American republic , lifts its outstretched arms , and its hands are filled with the lilies of sympathy for us and for him . No decree issued through the secret channels of ...
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... whole world else , Garfield , the embodiment of American humanity ; whose name a year ago was on these walls as the hope and example not only of the scholar , but of the poor and humble ; whose heart never had an ungenerous throb ; upon ...
... whole world else , Garfield , the embodiment of American humanity ; whose name a year ago was on these walls as the hope and example not only of the scholar , but of the poor and humble ; whose heart never had an ungenerous throb ; upon ...
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... our- selves and more for our fellow - men and country . I offer the prayer which is in all your hearts , and which is breathed by the whole Commonwealth , from Greylock's top to the pebbles upon the beach at Provincetown INTRODUCTION . 15.
... our- selves and more for our fellow - men and country . I offer the prayer which is in all your hearts , and which is breathed by the whole Commonwealth , from Greylock's top to the pebbles upon the beach at Provincetown INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... whole family , with a feeling akin to that the traveler on the ocean feels when longing for land , looked forward with joyful anticipation to the establishment of a home and the erection of those household gods with which all childhood ...
... whole family , with a feeling akin to that the traveler on the ocean feels when longing for land , looked forward with joyful anticipation to the establishment of a home and the erection of those household gods with which all childhood ...
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... whole region . His fifty - acre tract of land underwent a complete transformation . Early and late he toiled with the oxen ; and such a share did those beasts of burden have in the establishment and improvement of his home that Abram ...
... whole region . His fifty - acre tract of land underwent a complete transformation . Early and late he toiled with the oxen ; and such a share did those beasts of burden have in the establishment and improvement of his home that Abram ...
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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.