The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States |
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... at close and hard labor during his early years . Abram had but little opportunity for obtaining an education , although naturally a gifted and thoughtful man . The construction of the Erie Canal gave em- 3 OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 33.
... at close and hard labor during his early years . Abram had but little opportunity for obtaining an education , although naturally a gifted and thoughtful man . The construction of the Erie Canal gave em- 3 OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 33.
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Russell H. Conwell. man . The construction of the Erie Canal gave em- ployment to a large number of people along the line during the time of Abram's later youth and early manhood ; and the first money he was able to save , is said to ...
Russell H. Conwell. man . The construction of the Erie Canal gave em- ployment to a large number of people along the line during the time of Abram's later youth and early manhood ; and the first money he was able to save , is said to ...
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... gave considera- ble assistance . But it was a long , weird , cold and exciting journey through an almost unbroken forest , on a road such as the woodmen now would consider to be unfit and unsafe for the transportation of wood . Yet the ...
... gave considera- ble assistance . But it was a long , weird , cold and exciting journey through an almost unbroken forest , on a road such as the woodmen now would consider to be unfit and unsafe for the transportation of wood . Yet the ...
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... gave it the name of " Mother's retreat , " and always scrupulously left her to herself whenever they saw her put on her bonnet and start in the direction of the place . Births , mar- riages , deaths , have come since then . The strong ...
... gave it the name of " Mother's retreat , " and always scrupulously left her to herself whenever they saw her put on her bonnet and start in the direction of the place . Births , mar- riages , deaths , have come since then . The strong ...
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... gave the satisfaction that honest work gives to honest people . But in that trade he exhibited no striking genius , and con- structed no buildings which would now be consid- ered monuments of art or of remarkable skill . He could not ...
... gave the satisfaction that honest work gives to honest people . But in that trade he exhibited no striking genius , and con- structed no buildings which would now be consid- ered monuments of art or of remarkable skill . He could not ...
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Page 217 - 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.
Page 212 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 226 - 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.
Page 224 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 365 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 326 - Republic; but by four millions of Republican firesides, where the thoughtful voters, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and country, with the history of the past, the hopes of the future, and reverence for the great men who have adorned and blessed our nation in days gone by, burning in their hearts — there God prepares the verdict which will determine the wisdom of our work to-night.
Page 226 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Page 224 - 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 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.
Page 225 - 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.
Page 215 - 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...