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The profits of his labor in that undertaking were such that , after paying all his
expenses . the overjoyed young man was able to come back to the home he had
missed so much , and present to his mother the sum of eighty dollars . That
amount ...
The profits of his labor in that undertaking were such that , after paying all his
expenses . the overjoyed young man was able to come back to the home he had
missed so much , and present to his mother the sum of eighty dollars . That
amount ...
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... strongest doubt regarding the success of his petition for so large an amount of
money . It was a large sum for a poor young man to borrow , but a very small sum
on which to undertake two years of college life , five hundred miles from home .
... strongest doubt regarding the success of his petition for so large an amount of
money . It was a large sum for a poor young man to borrow , but a very small sum
on which to undertake two years of college life , five hundred miles from home .
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These considerations led me to conclude to go to some New England college . I
therefore wrote to the President of Brown University , Yale and Williams , setting
forth the amount of study I had done 100 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC ...
These considerations led me to conclude to go to some New England college . I
therefore wrote to the President of Brown University , Yale and Williams , setting
forth the amount of study I had done 100 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC ...
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liams , setting forth the amount of study I had done , and asking how long it would
take me to finish their course . “ These answers are now before me . All tell me I
can graduate in two years . They are all brief , business notes , but President ...
liams , setting forth the amount of study I had done , and asking how long it would
take me to finish their course . “ These answers are now before me . All tell me I
can graduate in two years . They are all brief , business notes , but President ...
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The achievement is made more astonishing by the large amount of other labor ,
physical and mental , which he performed during that period , in order to secure
his board , clothing and tuition . He became at once a favorite of President ...
The achievement is made more astonishing by the large amount of other labor ,
physical and mental , which he performed during that period , in order to secure
his board , clothing and tuition . He became at once a favorite of President ...
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Página 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
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 the 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.
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 329 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Página 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Página 326 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Página 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of Ohio |
| Autor | Russell H. Conwell |
| Colaborador | Mark Hopkins |
| Editor | B. B. Russell & Company, 1880 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 23 Jul. 2007 |
| Largo | 356 páginas |
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