The Ideals of Theodore RooseveltD. Appleton, 1923 - 329 pages |
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Edward Howe Cotton. 576171-29A то MY FATHER WHO WAS ALSO A LEADER WHOM THE PEOPLE DELIGHTED TO HONOR 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT To publishers , authors and friends who have.
Edward Howe Cotton. 576171-29A то MY FATHER WHO WAS ALSO A LEADER WHOM THE PEOPLE DELIGHTED TO HONOR 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT To publishers , authors and friends who have.
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Edward Howe Cotton. 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT To publishers , authors and friends who have made this book possible , I wish to express deep ap- preciation : To Mrs. To Mrs. Douglas Robinson and Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use ex ...
Edward Howe Cotton. 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT To publishers , authors and friends who have made this book possible , I wish to express deep ap- preciation : To Mrs. To Mrs. Douglas Robinson and Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use ex ...
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... friend who wrote me shortly after my brother's death , told me of a letter she had received , about six months before , from her nephew , a Major in France . In that letter the young officer said : " I am interested in talking with my ...
... friend who wrote me shortly after my brother's death , told me of a letter she had received , about six months before , from her nephew , a Major in France . In that letter the young officer said : " I am interested in talking with my ...
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... friends who believed that the in- tegrity of the state depended on the integrity of the church . It would be difficult to over- estimate the part those early surroundings played in shaping Roosevelt's character , fix- ing in his mind an ...
... friends who believed that the in- tegrity of the state depended on the integrity of the church . It would be difficult to over- estimate the part those early surroundings played in shaping Roosevelt's character , fix- ing in his mind an ...
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... gang leaders . Men of standing and family pride kept themselves free from the unclean scramble for office . His friends tried to dissuade him . He believed that it was the plain everyday duty of men of 22 IDEALS OF ROOSEVELT.
... gang leaders . Men of standing and family pride kept themselves free from the unclean scramble for office . His friends tried to dissuade him . He believed that it was the plain everyday duty of men of 22 IDEALS OF ROOSEVELT.
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Page 44 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page 324 - I am going to my Father's, and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
Page 219 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 302 - Also a Cheap Edition in I vol., 6s. Gordon's (General) Last Journal. A Facsimile of the last Journal received in England from GENERAL GORDON. Reproduced by Photo-lithography. Imperial 410, £3 y. Events in his Life. From the Day of his Birth to the Day of his Death.
Page 96 - Moses' seat: all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works ; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
Page 324 - After this, it was noised abroad that Mr Valiant-fortruth was taken with a summons by the same post as the other, and had this for a token that the summons was true, That his pitcher was broken at the fountain.
Page 97 - But all their works they do for to be seen of men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
Page 49 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 56 - The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare of the State, in the long run, depends on the uprightness of the citizen so strongly laid down.
Page 183 - Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the Irish or German vote, or the Irishman or German who votes as an Irishman or German, is despicable, for all citizens of this commonwealth should vote solely as Americans ; but he is not a whit less despicable than the voter who votes against a good American, merely because...