Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew HimChristian Herald, 1919 - 420 pages |
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... force Washington was perhaps not the equal of Lincoln or Roosevelt . Thomas Jefferson , Alexander Hamilton , John Marshall and Benjamin Franklin possibly had a sturdier type of intellect . But Washington's faculties were so evenly ...
... force Washington was perhaps not the equal of Lincoln or Roosevelt . Thomas Jefferson , Alexander Hamilton , John Marshall and Benjamin Franklin possibly had a sturdier type of intellect . But Washington's faculties were so evenly ...
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... forces for good citi- zenship among our people . There is one of his letters which has always appealed to me particularly . It is the one run- ning as follows : TO MRS . BIXBY , Boston , Mass . EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , NOVEMBER ...
... forces for good citi- zenship among our people . There is one of his letters which has always appealed to me particularly . It is the one run- ning as follows : TO MRS . BIXBY , Boston , Mass . EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , NOVEMBER ...
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... force that can never be destroyed . Everything that lives has a home , a place where it may abide , de- velop its growth , and prepare for its mission on the earth . This home on 20th Street was an ideal home before Theodore was born ...
... force that can never be destroyed . Everything that lives has a home , a place where it may abide , de- velop its growth , and prepare for its mission on the earth . This home on 20th Street was an ideal home before Theodore was born ...
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... force of will which enabled him to triumph over ten thousand hin- drances which were piled up in his pathway to his journey's end . How touching was the affection of the father for Theodore and how perfectly that affection was recip ...
... force of will which enabled him to triumph over ten thousand hin- drances which were piled up in his pathway to his journey's end . How touching was the affection of the father for Theodore and how perfectly that affection was recip ...
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... force . He felt deep down in the bottom of his heart that he preferred to be a naturalist and determined that he would be such if his father should give his consent . This was while he was a freshman at Harvard and in an intimate talk ...
... force . He felt deep down in the bottom of his heart that he preferred to be a naturalist and determined that he would be such if his father should give his consent . This was while he was a freshman at Harvard and in an intimate talk ...
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Page 30 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 318 - 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 297 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 296 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 318 - The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake!
Page 298 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 318 - I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.
Page 306 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 435 - Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Page 30 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...