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... Railroad and the leading physician of that city . The occupational record of a Baltimore class showed the following results : Four managers , one printer , seven lawyers , one local organizer , four secretaries , one representative ...
... Railroad and the leading physician of that city . The occupational record of a Baltimore class showed the following results : Four managers , one printer , seven lawyers , one local organizer , four secretaries , one representative ...
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... Railroad , one vice - president of a bank , one newspaper reporter , and many unclassified . IV METHODS OF INSTRUCTION 1. BOOKS TO READ AND RECOMMEND If an instructor has not read the following books , his attention is called to them ...
... Railroad , one vice - president of a bank , one newspaper reporter , and many unclassified . IV METHODS OF INSTRUCTION 1. BOOKS TO READ AND RECOMMEND If an instructor has not read the following books , his attention is called to them ...
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... Railroads , to which he may never have given two minutes ' serious thought ; it is much wiser to assign an easy topic out of his own experience as , " How I Started in Business Life . " One instructor has found that when a man is not ...
... Railroads , to which he may never have given two minutes ' serious thought ; it is much wiser to assign an easy topic out of his own experience as , " How I Started in Business Life . " One instructor has found that when a man is not ...
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... Railroad . It has been translated into all written languages . During the war between Russia and Japan , every Rus- sian soldier who went to the front was given a copy of the Message to Garcia . The Japanese , finding the booklets in ...
... Railroad . It has been translated into all written languages . During the war between Russia and Japan , every Rus- sian soldier who went to the front was given a copy of the Message to Garcia . The Japanese , finding the booklets in ...
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... railroads and covered the ocean with her steamships . Oh , you laboring men ! You are nothing but slaves ; you are ground down in the dust by the capitalist who is gloating over you as he enjoys his beautiful estates and as he has his ...
... railroads and covered the ocean with her steamships . Oh , you laboring men ! You are nothing but slaves ; you are ground down in the dust by the capitalist who is gloating over you as he enjoys his beautiful estates and as he has his ...
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Popular passages
Page 16 - Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 23 - While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that, on my vision, never may be opened what lies behind.
Page 15 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Page 3 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Page 14 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 2 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul.
Page 22 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with mу short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 22 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad.
Page 2 - That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin on his face. If he worried, he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "oh, you'll never do that At least no one ever has done it...
Page 21 - Secondly, they have reposed their trust in the efficacy of frequent elections, and in their own power to remove their own servants and agents, whenever they see cause. Thirdly, they have reposed trust in the judicial power, which, in order that it might be trustworthy, they have made as respectable, as disinterested, and as independent as was practicable.