The Life of William McKinleyP. W. Ziegler & Company, 1901 - 480 pages |
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... doors . Prepared to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the Constitution and the law , I await your action . " Congress debated a week over the recommendations con- tained in the President's message , and on April 18 , both ...
... doors . Prepared to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the Constitution and the law , I await your action . " Congress debated a week over the recommendations con- tained in the President's message , and on April 18 , both ...
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... door across whose mysterious threshold he has passed into eternity and into history , we think of him not as a partisan but as a man , and gladly give he meed of praise which is his due . " There is no politics in the chamber wherein ...
... door across whose mysterious threshold he has passed into eternity and into history , we think of him not as a partisan but as a man , and gladly give he meed of praise which is his due . " There is no politics in the chamber wherein ...
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... DOOR . For some days during May Mrs. McKinley lingered at death's door ; but at last there was a change for the better , and , after she had gained sufficient strength to stand the journey East , she rapidly recovered her former measure ...
... DOOR . For some days during May Mrs. McKinley lingered at death's door ; but at last there was a change for the better , and , after she had gained sufficient strength to stand the journey East , she rapidly recovered her former measure ...
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... door . " Second . We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no gov- ernment there can or will afford , and to that end to terminate the conditions that deprive them of ...
... door . " Second . We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no gov- ernment there can or will afford , and to that end to terminate the conditions that deprive them of ...
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... door by warships of a foreign nation ; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless altogether to prevent , and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising - all these and others that I need not mention , with the ...
... door by warships of a foreign nation ; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless altogether to prevent , and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising - all these and others that I need not mention , with the ...
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Page 303 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Page 296 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone ; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, — Nearer to Thee...
Page 374 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 150 - Union and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 408 - How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be ; How, in good fortune and in ill, the same ; Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
Page 102 - The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame : Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ! Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came...
Page 416 - He, the more fortunate ! yea, he hath finished ! For him there is no longer any future, His life is bright — bright without spot it was And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. Far off is he, above desire and fear ; No more submitted to the change and chance Of the unsteady planets.
Page 296 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 408 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 171 - Alliance, or a better system ; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. 1. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.