The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield ...: Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and LettersLothrop, 1881 - 587 páginas |
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... There is one address of his in Congress that made a great impression on our mind as we read it . He was deliv ering a brief eulogy on some deceased Senator - I think it was Senator Ferry . He spoke of him INTRODUCTION . vii.
... There is one address of his in Congress that made a great impression on our mind as we read it . He was deliv ering a brief eulogy on some deceased Senator - I think it was Senator Ferry . He spoke of him INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... so easy , however , to drive out of his mind the bewitching sea - faring tales he had read ; and when those hundred cords of wood were cut , 1 he returned home with the old longing to be a 28 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF.
... so easy , however , to drive out of his mind the bewitching sea - faring tales he had read ; and when those hundred cords of wood were cut , 1 he returned home with the old longing to be a 28 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF.
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... mind that , would you ? " " Now Mrs. Garfield , like a wise mother , had been studying her restless boy and was not unpre- pared for this returning desire on his part " to follow the sea . " " You might try a trip on Lake Erie , " she ...
... mind that , would you ? " " Now Mrs. Garfield , like a wise mother , had been studying her restless boy and was not unpre- pared for this returning desire on his part " to follow the sea . " " You might try a trip on Lake Erie , " she ...
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... mind to return home as soon as he was able . His mother was overjoyed when , a few weeks later , he stood before her and told her of his changed plans . But again the malaria asserted its sway over him , and for a long time he lay be ...
... mind to return home as soon as he was able . His mother was overjoyed when , a few weeks later , he stood before her and told her of his changed plans . But again the malaria asserted its sway over him , and for a long time he lay be ...
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... mind to go to Williamstown , Mass . . . . . There are three reasons why I have decided not to go to Bethany : -1st . The course of study is not so extensive or thorough as in eastern colleges . 2d . Bethany leans too heavily toward ...
... mind to go to Williamstown , Mass . . . . . There are three reasons why I have decided not to go to Bethany : -1st . The course of study is not so extensive or thorough as in eastern colleges . 2d . Bethany leans too heavily toward ...
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The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield ...: Together with Notable ... E. E. Brown Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 142 - 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 467 - 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 275 - For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water...
Página 275 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Página 472 - Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Página 81 - ... agony because silently borne. With clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes! Whose lips may tell what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household tics! Behind him a proud, expectant Nation; a great host...
Página 68 - Duke. No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! But who comes here ? Enter Escalus, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Página 429 - POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Página 540 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.
Página 425 - THE world's history is a Divine Poem of which the history of every Nation is a canto and every Man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, Philosopher and Historian — the humble listener — there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.