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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... thought I'd sound Jim on education — in the rudiments of geography , arithmetic and grammar . For I was just green enough in those days to im- agine I knew it all . I had been teaching school for three months in the backwoods of Steuben ...
... thought I'd sound Jim on education — in the rudiments of geography , arithmetic and grammar . For I was just green enough in those days to im- agine I knew it all . I had been teaching school for three months in the backwoods of Steuben ...
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... thought of his mother and her hopes for him , and made up his 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 ...
... thought of his mother and her hopes for him , and made up his 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 ...
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... thought to James . His poverty had seemed to him before an insurmountable obstacle in gaining a university education . Now , he began to study Latin and other branches that might pave the way to a college examination . On his return ...
... thought to James . His poverty had seemed to him before an insurmountable obstacle in gaining a university education . Now , he began to study Latin and other branches that might pave the way to a college examination . On his return ...
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... thought , perhaps , you would let me ring the bell and sweep the floors to pay part of my bills . " er ' How do we know that you can do the work well ? " asked one of the trustees . " If , at the end of a couple of weeks , " replied ...
... thought , perhaps , you would let me ring the bell and sweep the floors to pay part of my bills . " er ' How do we know that you can do the work well ? " asked one of the trustees . " If , at the end of a couple of weeks , " replied ...
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... policy upon his life to the value of five hundred dollars , and presented it to his uncle . He had now , as he thought , the necessary means to enter college , but which of the many inviting 58 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES .
... policy upon his life to the value of five hundred dollars , and presented it to his uncle . He had now , as he thought , the necessary means to enter college , but which of the many inviting 58 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES .
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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
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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.