"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore RooseveltA.A. Knopf, 1919 - 242 pages |
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... Hill 128 Family Group Taken While Roosevelt Was Governor of New York 144 Roosevelt's Cabinet in 1908 160 Roosevelt's Arrival at Gardiner , Mont . 176 Roosevelt as a Grandfather 192 Roosevelt's Home , Sagamore Hill 208 Roosevelt's ...
... Hill 128 Family Group Taken While Roosevelt Was Governor of New York 144 Roosevelt's Cabinet in 1908 160 Roosevelt's Arrival at Gardiner , Mont . 176 Roosevelt as a Grandfather 192 Roosevelt's Home , Sagamore Hill 208 Roosevelt's ...
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... hills , caves and woods of his country home . He had sisters , and , of course , his sisters had girl companions , and of course he had his special friend among this group of girl playmates . Naturally , his Southern mother made it her ...
... hills , caves and woods of his country home . He had sisters , and , of course , his sisters had girl companions , and of course he had his special friend among this group of girl playmates . Naturally , his Southern mother made it her ...
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... Hills district . A horse - thief Seth wanted escaped into Roosevelt's territory and was captured by him , a matter that led Seth to give some attention to the young cub of a deputy two or three hundred miles north of him . GREAT - HEART ...
... Hills district . A horse - thief Seth wanted escaped into Roosevelt's territory and was captured by him , a matter that led Seth to give some attention to the young cub of a deputy two or three hundred miles north of him . GREAT - HEART ...
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... Hills country , had had a terrible experience with one . The neighbor and two other men were walk- ing along the river . Two of them followed the edge of the stream . The third followed a game trail some distance away from them ...
... Hills country , had had a terrible experience with one . The neighbor and two other men were walk- ing along the river . Two of them followed the edge of the stream . The third followed a game trail some distance away from them ...
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... Hill at times resembled a veritable menagerie . At one time there were a lion , a hyena , a zebra , five bears , a wildcat , a coyote , two macaws , an eagle , a barn owl and several snakes and lizards . Kangaroo rats and flying ...
... Hill at times resembled a veritable menagerie . At one time there were a lion , a hyena , a zebra , five bears , a wildcat , a coyote , two macaws , an eagle , a barn owl and several snakes and lizards . Kangaroo rats and flying ...
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Page 232 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 193 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 191 - Finally, it would be a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.
Page 192 - Each nation must keep well prepared to defend itself until the establishment of some form of international police power, competent and willing to prevent violence as between nations. As things are now, such power to command peace throughout the world could best be assured by some combination between those great nations which sincerely desire peace and have no thought themselves of committing aggressions.
Page 193 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Page 135 - Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power. Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not prepared to back...
Page 186 - Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
Page 182 - In dealing with both labor and capital, with the questions affecting both corporations and trades unions, there is one matter more important to remember than aught else, and that is the infinite harm done by preachers of mere discontent. These are the men who seek to excite a violent class hatred against all men of wealth.
Page 171 - The action of the President in the Panama matter is not only in the. strictest accordance with the principles of justice and equity, and in line with all the best precedents of our public policy, but it was the only course he could have taken in compliance with our treaty rights and obligations.
Page 80 - York," to use the vernacular of our native city. To show our community of feeling and our grasp of the facts of life, I may mention that we were almost the only men in the Police Department who picked Fitzsimmons as a winner against Corbett.