The Ideals of Theodore RooseveltD. Appleton, 1923 - 329 pages |
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... Writing about his class one time to his sister , Mrs. Douglas Robinson , he said : " I came home to - day in time for my Sunday school class ; I am beginning to get very much interested in my pupils , especially in one who is a very ...
... Writing about his class one time to his sister , Mrs. Douglas Robinson , he said : " I came home to - day in time for my Sunday school class ; I am beginning to get very much interested in my pupils , especially in one who is a very ...
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... writings to his credit . Seldom has a writer been better able to compel attention , and to say with illuminating accur- acy what he had to say , though the art of com- position was acquired by him through con- scientious application and ...
... writings to his credit . Seldom has a writer been better able to compel attention , and to say with illuminating accur- acy what he had to say , though the art of com- position was acquired by him through con- scientious application and ...
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... writings which seek to expound and apply his teachings . No other book of any kind ever written in English - perhaps no other book ever written in any other tongue - has ever so affected the whole life of a people as this auth- orized ...
... writings which seek to expound and apply his teachings . No other book of any kind ever written in English - perhaps no other book ever written in any other tongue - has ever so affected the whole life of a people as this auth- orized ...
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... writing and addresses it was the same . There must be the application , the appeal . In the present instance , he included in his appeal one of the finest eulogies ever spoken on the Scriptures : " I make my appeal not only to ...
... writing and addresses it was the same . There must be the application , the appeal . In the present instance , he included in his appeal one of the finest eulogies ever spoken on the Scriptures : " I make my appeal not only to ...
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... writing , he was con- stantly urging on the state strict observance of the moral law . Thus in a speech delivered be- fore the Hamilton Club in Chicago , on Septem- ber 8 , 1910 , he remarked : " It has been well said that the progress ...
... writing , he was con- stantly urging on the state strict observance of the moral law . Thus in a speech delivered be- fore the Hamilton Club in Chicago , on Septem- ber 8 , 1910 , he remarked : " It has been well said that the progress ...
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Page 44 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page 96 - All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Page 97 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments...
Page 219 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 49 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 56 - The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare of the State, in the long run, depends on the uprightness of the citizen so strongly laid down.
Page 273 - After long years of iron effort, and of failure that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership of the Republic, at the moment when that leadership had become the stupendous world-task of the time. He grew to know greatness, but never ease. Success came to him, but never happiness, save that which springs from doing well a painful and a vital task.
Page 271 - ... never in any country seen a more eager, high-minded, and efficient set of public servants, men more useful and more creditable to their country, than the men then doing the work of the American Government in Washington and in the field.
Page 183 - Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the Irish or German vote, or the Irishman or German who votes as an Irishman or German, is despicable, for all citizens of this commonwealth should vote solely as Americans ; but he is not a whit less despicable than the voter who votes against a good American, merely because...
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