The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States |
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... letter , I regret very much that I have not time to write an extended introduction to your biography of General Garfield , which , now that his noble life is ended , I am glad to know is to be revised and again published . I cordially ...
... letter , I regret very much that I have not time to write an extended introduction to your biography of General Garfield , which , now that his noble life is ended , I am glad to know is to be revised and again published . I cordially ...
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... letters , that it is universally regarded by cultivated men as only a beginning . No man with a rugged body and a thoughtful mind need lack a collee edu- cation . The knowledge of mathematics , of science , OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD .
... letters , that it is universally regarded by cultivated men as only a beginning . No man with a rugged body and a thoughtful mind need lack a collee edu- cation . The knowledge of mathematics , of science , OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD .
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... letter to a friend , explaining his reasons for choosing Williams rather than the college of his denomination at Bethany . A part of it was as fol- lows : *** " After thinking it all over I have made up my mind to go to Williamstown ...
... letter to a friend , explaining his reasons for choosing Williams rather than the college of his denomination at Bethany . A part of it was as fol- lows : *** " After thinking it all over I have made up my mind to go to Williamstown ...
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... letters to his friends in Ohio , he was quite en- thusiastic in his descriptions of the men and the landscapes . In fact he had been especially favored during his school days in the natural scenery which surrounded academies and college ...
... letters to his friends in Ohio , he was quite en- thusiastic in his descriptions of the men and the landscapes . In fact he had been especially favored during his school days in the natural scenery which surrounded academies and college ...
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... letter , Mr. Whitelaw Reid in his Ohio in the War , ' says : ' This report we venture to pronounce the ablest military document known to have been submitted by a chief of staff to his superior during the war . ' This is high praise ...
... letter , Mr. Whitelaw Reid in his Ohio in the War , ' says : ' This report we venture to pronounce the ablest military document known to have been submitted by a chief of staff to his superior during the war . ' This is high praise ...
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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...