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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... strong voice a chapter of Holy Writ , and calls upon a brother student to offer prayer . " How far the little candle throws its beams ! " It required real principle to take that stand even in such a com- pany . Was that candle of the ...
... strong voice a chapter of Holy Writ , and calls upon a brother student to offer prayer . " How far the little candle throws its beams ! " It required real principle to take that stand even in such a com- pany . Was that candle of the ...
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... strong , heroic spirit that never faltered , never gave up " the one chance , " even while he whispered : " God's will be done ; I am ready to go if my time has come . " Party differences were all forgotten ; there was no longer any ...
... strong , heroic spirit that never faltered , never gave up " the one chance , " even while he whispered : " God's will be done ; I am ready to go if my time has come . " Party differences were all forgotten ; there was no longer any ...
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... brave , self - forgetting endurance of pain , his strong , indomitable will , his tender regard for his aged mother , his simple , unaffected piety , his cheerful resignation , will never be 12 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF.
... brave , self - forgetting endurance of pain , his strong , indomitable will , his tender regard for his aged mother , his simple , unaffected piety , his cheerful resignation , will never be 12 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF.
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... strong arms , and decl..res he is " worth his weight in gold . " ” J Thomas , a boy of nine years , with Mehetabel and Mary , the two little sisters , look wonderingly upon their baby brother , and then run out to spread the good news ...
... strong arms , and decl..res he is " worth his weight in gold . " ” J Thomas , a boy of nine years , with Mehetabel and Mary , the two little sisters , look wonderingly upon their baby brother , and then run out to spread the good news ...
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... strong enough , dear child , to do all that , " she said , " but God helping us , we will keep together . I will sell off part of the farm to pay our debts , and we shall then have thirty acres . left , which will be quite enough for ...
... strong enough , dear child , to do all that , " she said , " but God helping us , we will keep together . I will sell off part of the farm to pay our debts , and we shall then have thirty acres . left , which will be quite enough for ...
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The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield ...: Together with Notable ... E. E. Brown Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield ... Together with Notable ... E E Brown Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
American army battle battle of Chickamauga better blood Bragg's brave called catafalque CHAPTER character Chattanooga Chickamauga church citizens Cleveland command Congress dead death Disciples duty Elberon elected England exclaimed faith father feel field forces freedom gave give greater omentum Guiteau Gustave Schleicher hand heart Hiram College honor hope hour hundred James James Garfield knew labor land liberty Lincoln live Long Branch look lumbar vertebra memory ment Mentor military morning mother mourning nation never night Ohio passed peace political President Garfield President's rebel regiment Republic Republican party Rosecrans Secretary seemed Senator slavery soldier soon sorrow Speech spirit strong sympathy Thomas thought thousand tion to-day took truth Union Union army voice vote Washington Williams College words young
Pasajes populares
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 581 - ... 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 568 - 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.