The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... YOUNG- - HIS EARLY TASKS . — ABSENCE OF A FATHER'S DISCI- PLINE . HIS ABSOLUTE TRUTHFULNESS . -COULD NOT LIE TO HIS MOTHER . ASHAMED TO BE CALLED A COWARD . HIS UNCLE AMOS . WHOLESOME FEAR . - LOVE OF POETRY . -NAMES THE TREES AND ROCKS ...
... YOUNG- - HIS EARLY TASKS . — ABSENCE OF A FATHER'S DISCI- PLINE . HIS ABSOLUTE TRUTHFULNESS . -COULD NOT LIE TO HIS MOTHER . ASHAMED TO BE CALLED A COWARD . HIS UNCLE AMOS . WHOLESOME FEAR . - LOVE OF POETRY . -NAMES THE TREES AND ROCKS ...
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... young life , and we shall see how curiously and surely it guided him upward . Romances have been constructed about the boy- hood of James , in which he has figured as the heroic representative of Ohio boys . But the dress of fiction ...
... young life , and we shall see how curiously and surely it guided him upward . Romances have been constructed about the boy- hood of James , in which he has figured as the heroic representative of Ohio boys . But the dress of fiction ...
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... young men at the school - houses . The singing- schools , spelling matches , out - door games , and re- ligious gatherings had his personal assistance , and his encouragement and advice had a great influence with James , who stood in ...
... young men at the school - houses . The singing- schools , spelling matches , out - door games , and re- ligious gatherings had his personal assistance , and his encouragement and advice had a great influence with James , who stood in ...
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... young orator supposed a case " where a meal of victuals awaited a hungry , drunken man , but he could not get to them . " Now , " said the speaker , " that man is too drunk to navigate himself . He will have no supper . Now , of what ...
... young orator supposed a case " where a meal of victuals awaited a hungry , drunken man , but he could not get to them . " Now , " said the speaker , " that man is too drunk to navigate himself . He will have no supper . Now , of what ...
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... 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 having been added to the building fund , they felt able to undertake the enterprise , for which they ...
... 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 having been added to the building fund , they felt able to undertake the enterprise , for which they ...
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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.