The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page 27
... less French " squawman , " with an intelligent Indian wife , whose baby was but a few weeks old . From this point onwards , when they began to travel west instead of north , the explorers were in a country where no white man had ever ...
... less French " squawman , " with an intelligent Indian wife , whose baby was but a few weeks old . From this point onwards , when they began to travel west instead of north , the explorers were in a country where no white man had ever ...
Page 31
... less abundant than on the plains and far harder to kill ; though on the tops of the high peaks there was one new game animal , the white antelope - goat , which they did not see , though the Indians brought them hides . The work was ...
... less abundant than on the plains and far harder to kill ; though on the tops of the high peaks there was one new game animal , the white antelope - goat , which they did not see , though the Indians brought them hides . The work was ...
Page 38
... less than two years afterward , his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success ; whether serving with an independent command in the Valley , or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan ...
... less than two years afterward , his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success ; whether serving with an independent command in the Valley , or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan ...
Page 48
... less than men ; but neither can it afford to have them other than good men . If courage and strength and intellect are unaccompanied by the moral purpose , the moral sense , they become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous force ...
... less than men ; but neither can it afford to have them other than good men . If courage and strength and intellect are unaccompanied by the moral purpose , the moral sense , they become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous force ...
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... less perfectly real- ized , and it is an ideal incomparably higher than the ideal of the beneficent autocrat which it has so largely supplanted.1 III We all of us know the type of man , frequently found at crossroad groceries , who in ...
... less perfectly real- ized , and it is an ideal incomparably higher than the ideal of the beneficent autocrat which it has so largely supplanted.1 III We all of us know the type of man , frequently found at crossroad groceries , who in ...
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