The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page xvii
... lives have formed part of its greatness not merely the material effect of what they did , not merely the laws they placed upon the statute books or the victories they won over armed foes , but also the immense but indefinable moral ...
... lives have formed part of its greatness not merely the material effect of what they did , not merely the laws they placed upon the statute books or the victories they won over armed foes , but also the immense but indefinable moral ...
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... lives were yet strangely fascinating and full of adventurous toil and danger ; none but natures as strong , as freedom - loving , and as full of bold defiance as theirs would have endured existence on the terms which these men found ...
... lives were yet strangely fascinating and full of adventurous toil and danger ; none but natures as strong , as freedom - loving , and as full of bold defiance as theirs would have endured existence on the terms which these men found ...
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... live stock , and the cougar or panther occasionally attacked man as well . More terrible still , the wolves sometimes went mad , and the men who then encountered them were almost certain to be bitten and to die of hydrophobia . Every ...
... live stock , and the cougar or panther occasionally attacked man as well . More terrible still , the wolves sometimes went mad , and the men who then encountered them were almost certain to be bitten and to die of hydrophobia . Every ...
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... lives of abandoned wickedness ; they hated good for good's sake , and did their utmost to destroy it . Where the bad element was large , gangs of horse thieves , highwaymen , and other criminals often united with the uncontrollable ...
... lives of abandoned wickedness ; they hated good for good's sake , and did their utmost to destroy it . Where the bad element was large , gangs of horse thieves , highwaymen , and other criminals often united with the uncontrollable ...
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... live up to it , in spite of the manifold temptations to back- sliding offered by their lives of hard and fierce conten- tion . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy , and infinitely more so than Cathol- icism ...
... live up to it , in spite of the manifold temptations to back- sliding offered by their lives of hard and fierce conten- tion . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy , and infinitely more so than Cathol- icism ...
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