The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and BurialStinson & Company, 1881 - 384 páginas |
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... Ancestry and health wield a per- ceptible and sometimes a strong influence ; but the capital we are born with may be increased a hundred fold by our own exertions . It is this increase 26 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
... Ancestry and health wield a per- ceptible and sometimes a strong influence ; but the capital we are born with may be increased a hundred fold by our own exertions . It is this increase 26 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
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... - lands came in for a share in the titles of nobility he conferred . The apple orchard of one hundred trees , which his father planted and which had already spread wide its 60 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
... - lands came in for a share in the titles of nobility he conferred . The apple orchard of one hundred trees , which his father planted and which had already spread wide its 60 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
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... hundred cords of wood made to him by his uncle , Thomas Garfield , called his attention away for a while , only to make it to return with greater deter- mination . The woodland where he worked for his Uncle Thomas , was situated near ...
... hundred cords of wood made to him by his uncle , Thomas Garfield , called his attention away for a while , only to make it to return with greater deter- mination . The woodland where he worked for his Uncle Thomas , was situated near ...
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... opening day , eighty - four students were in attendance , and soon the number rose to two or three hundred per term . Students came from a wide region of country . Ohio furnished the 94 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
... opening day , eighty - four students were in attendance , and soon the number rose to two or three hundred per term . Students came from a wide region of country . Ohio furnished the 94 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
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... hundred dollars , until he could finish his college course , and earn that sum by teaching . His uncle had always been kind to him , and had seemed to take a friendly interest in his welfare ; but yet the nephew had the strongest doubt ...
... hundred dollars , until he could finish his college course , and earn that sum by teaching . His uncle had always been kind to him , and had seemed to take a friendly interest in his welfare ; but yet the nephew had the strongest doubt ...
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Página 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Página 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.