 | 1922 - 772 pages
...theory. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans upon his hoe. Laugh and the world laughs with you. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The gods are growing old. An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. "I must rescue... | |
 | Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...on April II, 1899, when he delivered his famous address, from which we quote the following: "... I preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. ... I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his sons, shall... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most...the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1902 - 344 pages
...tremendously," she went on warmly. " ' I wish to preach,' he said, with snapping teeth and blazing eyes, ' not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the Strenuous Life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife — to preach that highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 488 pages
...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the ilife of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most...preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doc' trine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of laboi and strife; to preach that... | |
 | 1906 - 594 pages
...the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most...doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the etrenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 9 Strenuous, — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrme of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife; to preach that highest... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. "I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. " I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life... 
