Our Martyred President ...: 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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... character , President McKinley stood upon the highest pedestal . He fell from the very pinnacle of human fame . From his boyhood to his entrance into the army , from his noble stand for his country to the close of the Civil War , from ...
... character , President McKinley stood upon the highest pedestal . He fell from the very pinnacle of human fame . From his boyhood to his entrance into the army , from his noble stand for his country to the close of the Civil War , from ...
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... 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 , V.
... 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 , V.
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... character of Mr. McKinley shall have been submitted to the political autopsy inseparable from the political canvass , an examination imposed something like a masonic ritual , upon every candidate for the exalted posi- tion of President ...
... character of Mr. McKinley shall have been submitted to the political autopsy inseparable from the political canvass , an examination imposed something like a masonic ritual , upon every candidate for the exalted posi- tion of President ...
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... Tributes to Mr. McKinley - Eloquent Eulogies from Celebrities - Grief and Indignation - The Presi dent's Virtues and Character Extolled . . 346 364 391 CHAPTER XXI . PAGE Additional Tributes to President McKinley - CONTENTS . xi.
... Tributes to Mr. McKinley - Eloquent Eulogies from Celebrities - Grief and Indignation - The Presi dent's Virtues and Character Extolled . . 346 364 391 CHAPTER XXI . PAGE Additional Tributes to President McKinley - CONTENTS . xi.
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... character . Where others knew superficially he knew thoroughly . This thoroughness and skill in handling a slender majority of twenty - two enabled him to pass that tariff bill which bears his name , which found less favor when enacted ...
... character . Where others knew superficially he knew thoroughly . This thoroughness and skill in handling a slender majority of twenty - two enabled him to pass that tariff bill which bears his name , which found less favor when enacted ...
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Page 306 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Page 299 - 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!
Page 322 - Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.
Page 411 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 149 - Union and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 411 - How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be ; How, in good fortune and in ill, the same ; Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
Page 299 - 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 - ... 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 tranquillity and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary for these purposes.
Page 101 - Vile hand, that brandest murder on a strife, Whate'er its grounds, stoutly and nobly striven ; And with the martyr's crown crownest a life With much to praise, little to be forgiven.
Page 101 - 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...