McClure's Magazine ..., Volume 12S. S. McClure, Limited, 1899 |
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... department and the fire patrol : One saves from fire , the other saves from water . The fire department is a branch of the public service ; the fire patrol is a small company of picked men supported by the insurance underwriters as a ...
... department and the fire patrol : One saves from fire , the other saves from water . The fire department is a branch of the public service ; the fire patrol is a small company of picked men supported by the insurance underwriters as a ...
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... Department and riding away to the front with his cowboys and col- lege men ? These episodes furnish the cipher key by which all of Mr. Roosevelt's life may be read . The qualities which made them a possibility are only the flowering of ...
... Department and riding away to the front with his cowboys and col- lege men ? These episodes furnish the cipher key by which all of Mr. Roosevelt's life may be read . The qualities which made them a possibility are only the flowering of ...
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... Department , Mr. Riis says that he often saw him turn , during a lull in the activi- ties of the office , and write a paragraph or two in a book or article which he was then preparing ; or , more frequently , seize the ready book at his ...
... Department , Mr. Riis says that he often saw him turn , during a lull in the activi- ties of the office , and write a paragraph or two in a book or article which he was then preparing ; or , more frequently , seize the ready book at his ...
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... Department would always make good the damage . He Mr. Roosevelt was the only police officer to whom the labor unions of New York came for counsel on friendly terms . Usu- ally the police and the unions are at odds . A small strike , in ...
... Department would always make good the damage . He Mr. Roosevelt was the only police officer to whom the labor unions of New York came for counsel on friendly terms . Usu- ally the police and the unions are at odds . A small strike , in ...
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... Department , and was based on information received on April 29th regarding the sailing of Cervera's fleet from Cape Verde and the probable destination of those vessels . So , on the morning of the 8th of May , we find Sampson off Cape ...
... Department , and was based on information received on April 29th regarding the sailing of Cervera's fleet from Cape Verde and the probable destination of those vessels . So , on the morning of the 8th of May , we find Sampson off Cape ...
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Page 263 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 525 - We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 261 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 169 - My friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 262 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 261 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
Page 291 - Take up the White man's burden And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, "Our loved Egyptian night?
Page 324 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Page 324 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 262 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.