Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew HimChristian Herald, 1919 - 420 pages |
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... nature , many of the qualities of Lin- coln , and he gained others by a lifelong admiration and imitation of him . He insisted that any man or party which had strayed away from the principles advocated by Lincoln was on the wrong track ...
... nature , many of the qualities of Lin- coln , and he gained others by a lifelong admiration and imitation of him . He insisted that any man or party which had strayed away from the principles advocated by Lincoln was on the wrong track ...
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... nature that life stamps its image on its offspring . It is so with the grains , the herds , the flocks and the tribes of men . Theodore Roosevelt had a right to be great . He came of splendid stock on both sides . For two hundred years ...
... nature that life stamps its image on its offspring . It is so with the grains , the herds , the flocks and the tribes of men . Theodore Roosevelt had a right to be great . He came of splendid stock on both sides . For two hundred years ...
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... nature , which drew a whole nation to him , he got from his mother , a lovely Southern woman . His father was a ... natural mixture of the Puritan and Cavalier . Similarly Theodore Roosevelt's greatness exhibited the moral and religious ...
... nature , which drew a whole nation to him , he got from his mother , a lovely Southern woman . His father was a ... natural mixture of the Puritan and Cavalier . Similarly Theodore Roosevelt's greatness exhibited the moral and religious ...
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... no accident that books on nature study were placed in his hands . It was done on purpose , not only to enter- tain him , but to make a naturalist of him . So when the boy went out even to play in the country 42 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... no accident that books on nature study were placed in his hands . It was done on purpose , not only to enter- tain him , but to make a naturalist of him . So when the boy went out even to play in the country 42 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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... nature . Her limbs adorned with purity and her eyes with bashfulness , sobriety set the rhythm of her gait , and she was clad in white apparel . " And she said , " Heracles , I , too , am come to you , seeing that your parents are well ...
... nature . Her limbs adorned with purity and her eyes with bashfulness , sobriety set the rhythm of her gait , and she was clad in white apparel . " And she said , " Heracles , I , too , am come to you , seeing that your parents are well ...
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Page 312 - 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 293 - 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 292 - 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 312 - 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 28 - 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 300 - 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 294 - 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 312 - 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 427 - 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.
Page 312 - When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply; The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.