The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... claim that ancestry makes the nobleman , we give the line of the Garfield family for the benefit of such as may deem it import- ant . The tendency of this record is to show that all the individuals of the different races are born into ...
... claim that ancestry makes the nobleman , we give the line of the Garfield family for the benefit of such as may deem it import- ant . The tendency of this record is to show that all the individuals of the different races are born into ...
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... claim to human greatness . The The earliest known mention of the Garfield family is in 1587 , when it appears that one James Garfield ( or Gearfeldt ) , was given a tract of land on the bor- ders of Wales , near Chester , England ...
... claim to human greatness . The The earliest known mention of the Garfield family is in 1587 , when it appears that one James Garfield ( or Gearfeldt ) , was given a tract of land on the bor- ders of Wales , near Chester , England ...
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Russell H. Conwell. ous searchers into the family history claim to have discovered his Coat of Arms . If the following de- scription of the family escutcheon be correct , as claimed by those who have given the matter study , it goes far ...
Russell H. Conwell. ous searchers into the family history claim to have discovered his Coat of Arms . If the following de- scription of the family escutcheon be correct , as claimed by those who have given the matter study , it goes far ...
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... claim to respect and no other capital to begin life upon , he found in his truth - telling an infallible guide to nobility and human greatness . This was the only very remarkable thing about his young life , and we shall see how ...
... claim to respect and no other capital to begin life upon , he found in his truth - telling an infallible guide to nobility and human greatness . This was the only very remarkable thing about his young life , and we shall see how ...
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... claim on the good man's heart . Mr. Bates sought the acquaintance of the Garfield family and was soon on intimate terms with James . His advice to him was clear and decided . He told him that many boys as old and as OF GENERAL JAMES A ...
... claim on the good man's heart . Mr. Bates sought the acquaintance of the Garfield family and was soon on intimate terms with James . His advice to him was clear and decided . He told him that many boys as old and as OF GENERAL JAMES A ...
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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 331 - ... 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 328 - 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.