The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... backwoodsmen , whatever their blood , had become Americans , one in speech , thought , and character , clutching firmly the land in which their fathers and grandfathers had lived before them . They had lost all THE BACKGROUND 5.
... backwoodsmen , whatever their blood , had become Americans , one in speech , thought , and character , clutching firmly the land in which their fathers and grandfathers had lived before them . They had lost all THE BACKGROUND 5.
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... become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light axes . Their grim , harsh , narrow lives were yet strangely fascinating and full of ...
... become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light axes . Their grim , harsh , narrow lives were yet strangely fascinating and full of ...
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... become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous force and unscrupulous cunning . If the strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor . All this is true in ...
... become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous force and unscrupulous cunning . If the strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor . All this is true in ...
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... , but by them alone no nation will ever 1 Address at the Graduating Exercises of Friends ' School , Washing- ton , May 24 , 1907 . become great . Reading through the pages of history you 62 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
... , but by them alone no nation will ever 1 Address at the Graduating Exercises of Friends ' School , Washing- ton , May 24 , 1907 . become great . Reading through the pages of history you 62 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
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Selections from His Writings and Speeches Theodore Roosevelt John Ashby Lester. become great . Reading through the pages of history you come upon nation after nation in which there has been a high average of individual strength , bravery ...
Selections from His Writings and Speeches Theodore Roosevelt John Ashby Lester. become great . Reading through the pages of history you come upon nation after nation in which there has been a high average of individual strength , bravery ...
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