Our Martyred President as a Man ...: Memorial Life of William McKinley ... Together with a Full History of Anarchy and Its Infamous DeedsMemorial Publishing Company, 1901 - 480 pages |
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... nature . His patriotism was so broad and bold that it won the applause of his political opponents . Even they believed in the man . They honored his opinions and his honesty even though they differed from him . He was followed with the ...
... nature . His patriotism was so broad and bold that it won the applause of his political opponents . Even they believed in the man . They honored his opinions and his honesty even though they differed from him . He was followed with the ...
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... natural step from the commanding position he had gained . The story of President McKinley's life is much like that of nearly all our renowned statesmen and rulers . He was born in humble life . He had that contact with Mother Earth ...
... natural step from the commanding position he had gained . The story of President McKinley's life is much like that of nearly all our renowned statesmen and rulers . He was born in humble life . He had that contact with Mother Earth ...
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... to see that gentleness of nature was his leading characteristic . Probably no better idea of just what the character of man our late President was can be found than in what was said of him by my brother , the late John Russell Young ,
... to see that gentleness of nature was his leading characteristic . Probably no better idea of just what the character of man our late President was can be found than in what was said of him by my brother , the late John Russell Young ,
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... natural deformity . His trousers had PARTNERSHIP WITH A LEADING LAWYER . " My client seems to have done better by this man than did nature itself , " said Counsellor McKinley , " and I move that the suit be dismissed with recommendation ...
... natural deformity . His trousers had PARTNERSHIP WITH A LEADING LAWYER . " My client seems to have done better by this man than did nature itself , " said Counsellor McKinley , " and I move that the suit be dismissed with recommendation ...
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... natural bent of McKinley's mind and the tendency to sympathize with the toilers had early turned his intellect toward that precise question . That was his theme when very early in his legal career he took the stump and discussed ...
... natural bent of McKinley's mind and the tendency to sympathize with the toilers had early turned his intellect toward that precise question . That was his theme when very early in his legal career he took the stump and discussed ...
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Page 305 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Page 150 - Union and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 298 - 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 157 - ... of a foreign nation; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless to prevent altogether, and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising — all these and others that I need not mention, with the resulting strained relations, are a constant menace to our peace and compel us to keep on a semi-war footing with a nation with which we are at peace.
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 400 - 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 158 - Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 158 - In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquility and the security of its citizens, as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces...
Page 157 - The present condition of affairs in Cuba is a constant menace to our peace and entails upon this Government an enormous expense. With such a conflict waged for years in an island so near us, and with which our people have such trade and business relations; when the lives and liberty of our citizens are in constant danger and their property destroyed and themselves ruined...
Page 298 - Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Beth-El I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!