The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... hard conditions of life in the wilderness , was enough to weld together into one people the representatives of these numerous and widely different races ; and the children of the next generation became indistinguishable from one another ...
... hard conditions of life in the wilderness , was enough to weld together into one people the representatives of these numerous and widely different races ; and the children of the next generation became indistinguishable from one another ...
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... hard- featured Presbyterian preacher , gloomy , earnest , and zealous , probably bigoted and narrow - minded , but nevertheless a great power for good in the community . - However , the backwoodsmen as a class neither built towns nor ...
... hard- featured Presbyterian preacher , gloomy , earnest , and zealous , probably bigoted and narrow - minded , but nevertheless a great power for good in the community . - However , the backwoodsmen as a class neither built towns nor ...
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... hard and fierce conten- tion . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy , and infinitely more so than Cathol- icism , was too cold for the fiery hearts of the borderers ; they were not stirred to the depths of their ...
... hard and fierce conten- tion . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy , and infinitely more so than Cathol- icism , was too cold for the fiery hearts of the borderers ; they were not stirred to the depths of their ...
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... showed for dancing , although without partners of the opposite sex . Yet they suffered much from the extreme cold , and at times from hunger , for it was hard to hunt in the winter weather , and the game 26 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
... showed for dancing , although without partners of the opposite sex . Yet they suffered much from the extreme cold , and at times from hunger , for it was hard to hunt in the winter weather , and the game 26 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
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... hard , it was work of a kind which was but a long holiday . At nightfall they camped by the boats on the river bank . Each day some of the party spent in hunt- ing , either along the river bottoms through the groves of cottonwoods with ...
... hard , it was work of a kind which was but a long holiday . At nightfall they camped by the boats on the river bank . Each day some of the party spent in hunt- ing , either along the river bottoms through the groves of cottonwoods with ...
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