The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... civilization of the west and south- west . Great numbers of immigrants of English descent came among them from the settled districts on the east ; and though these later arrivals soon became indistin- guishable from the people among ...
... civilization of the west and south- west . Great numbers of immigrants of English descent came among them from the settled districts on the east ; and though these later arrivals soon became indistin- guishable from the people among ...
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... civilization from the Alleghanies to the Pacific . As he himself said , he was " an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilder- ness . " Born in Pennsylvania , he drifted south into west- ern North Carolina , and settled on what ...
... civilization from the Alleghanies to the Pacific . As he himself said , he was " an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilder- ness . " Born in Pennsylvania , he drifted south into west- ern North Carolina , and settled on what ...
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... civilization are carried to the highest point on tracts which , when the nineteenth century had passed its meridian , were still known only to the grim trappers and hunters and the red lords of the wilderness with whom they waged eter ...
... civilization are carried to the highest point on tracts which , when the nineteenth century had passed its meridian , were still known only to the grim trappers and hunters and the red lords of the wilderness with whom they waged eter ...
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... civilization that we in- herit , let us steadily remember that the only homage that counts is the homage of deeds - not merely of words . It is well to gather here to show that we remem- ber what has been done in the past by the Western ...
... civilization that we in- herit , let us steadily remember that the only homage that counts is the homage of deeds - not merely of words . It is well to gather here to show that we remem- ber what has been done in the past by the Western ...
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... civilization really great . The other day in a little Lutheran church at Sioux Falls I listened to a most interesting and most stimulat- ing sermon , which struck me particularly because of the translation of a word which , I am ashamed ...
... civilization really great . The other day in a little Lutheran church at Sioux Falls I listened to a most interesting and most stimulat- ing sermon , which struck me particularly because of the translation of a word which , I am ashamed ...
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