The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States |
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... secure , and the frauds that had been suffered to fester in its flesh have been put to the curing and stern knife of excoriation . And yet , when the rumor came , as it came at first , that Garfield was dead , we called up less the ...
... secure , and the frauds that had been suffered to fester in its flesh have been put to the curing and stern knife of excoriation . And yet , when the rumor came , as it came at first , that Garfield was dead , we called up less the ...
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... secure impossi- ble information about the lives of the generations past in order to measure the physical power and mental capabilities of the man whose life he studies . Whether the writers and scholars who devote so much of their time ...
... secure impossi- ble information about the lives of the generations past in order to measure the physical power and mental capabilities of the man whose life he studies . Whether the writers and scholars who devote so much of their time ...
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... secure a livelihood through the months preceding the sale of the first crop , and no lit- tle watching to keep his family from the wolves and from the possible visits of fiercer beasts . But all seem to have willingly endured all the ...
... secure a livelihood through the months preceding the sale of the first crop , and no lit- tle watching to keep his family from the wolves and from the possible visits of fiercer beasts . But all seem to have willingly endured all the ...
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... secure a sheltered playhouse . He planted his little garden in the spring , and often lost his interest in it after the wonderful resurrection of the beans and cucumbers had ceased to astonish him . He was the pet of his mother and the ...
... secure a sheltered playhouse . He planted his little garden in the spring , and often lost his interest in it after the wonderful resurrection of the beans and cucumbers had ceased to astonish him . He was the pet of his mother and the ...
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... secure , and with employment only on the cheap farm houses and barns of that day , it is no surprise that he was an indifferent workman . His work was al- ways carefully done , and gave the satisfaction that honest work gives to honest ...
... secure , and with employment only on the cheap farm houses and barns of that day , it is no surprise that he was an indifferent workman . His work was al- ways carefully done , and gave the satisfaction that honest work gives to honest ...
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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...