Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... hour of his tragical death , Garfield's career was eminent and exceptional . Slowly working through his educational period , receiv- ing his diploma when twenty - four years of age , he seemed at one bound to spring into conspicuous and ...
... hour of his tragical death , Garfield's career was eminent and exceptional . Slowly working through his educational period , receiv- ing his diploma when twenty - four years of age , he seemed at one bound to spring into conspicuous and ...
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... hour . Garfield's nomination to the Presidency , while not pre- dicted or anticipated , was not a surprise to the country . His prominence in Congress , his solid qualities , his wide reputation , strengthened by his then recent ...
... hour . Garfield's nomination to the Presidency , while not pre- dicted or anticipated , was not a surprise to the country . His prominence in Congress , his solid qualities , his wide reputation , strengthened by his then recent ...
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... hour of torture , a moment of pain If every man die forever , if all his griefs are in vain , And the homeless planet at length will be wheeled through the silence of space , Motherless evermore of an ever - vanishing race , When the ...
... hour of torture , a moment of pain If every man die forever , if all his griefs are in vain , And the homeless planet at length will be wheeled through the silence of space , Motherless evermore of an ever - vanishing race , When the ...
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... hour with , or furnish a bit of employment that will give a trifle of idle capital a chance to earn its bread while it is waiting for something to do , but now just listen a moment - now just let me give you an idea of what we old ...
... hour with , or furnish a bit of employment that will give a trifle of idle capital a chance to earn its bread while it is waiting for something to do , but now just listen a moment - now just let me give you an idea of what we old ...
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... hours and let them ferment . You'll feel like a fighting - cock next day . " Fifteen or twenty minutes later the Colonel's tongue was still chattering away - he had piled several future fortunes out of several incipient " operations ...
... hours and let them ferment . You'll feel like a fighting - cock next day . " Fifteen or twenty minutes later the Colonel's tongue was still chattering away - he had piled several future fortunes out of several incipient " operations ...
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Popular passages
Page 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Page 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.