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Page 12
Wolves and bears were incessant and inveterate foes of the live stock , and the
cougar or panther occasionally attacked man as well . More terrible still , the
wolves sometimes went mad , and the men who then encountered them were
almost ...
Wolves and bears were incessant and inveterate foes of the live stock , and the
cougar or panther occasionally attacked man as well . More terrible still , the
wolves sometimes went mad , and the men who then encountered them were
almost ...
Page 17
Those of them who knew the right honestly tried to live up to it , in spite of the
manifold temptations to backsliding offered by their lives of hard and fierce
contention . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy ,
and ...
Those of them who knew the right honestly tried to live up to it , in spite of the
manifold temptations to backsliding offered by their lives of hard and fierce
contention . But Calvinism , though more congenial to them than Episcopacy ,
and ...
Page 46
The old iron days have gone , the days when the weakling died as the penalty of
inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings . We live in
softer times . Let us see to it that ,. 46 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
The old iron days have gone , the days when the weakling died as the penalty of
inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings . We live in
softer times . Let us see to it that ,. 46 THE AMERICANISM OF ROOSEVELT.
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Far better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious triumphs , even though
checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows not
victory nor ...
Far better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious triumphs , even though
checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows not
victory nor ...
Page 72
If you have an ideal only good while you sit at home , an ideal that nobody can
live up to in outside life , then I advise you strongly to take that ideal , examine it
closely , and then cast it away . It is not a good one . The ideal that it is impossible
...
If you have an ideal only good while you sit at home , an ideal that nobody can
live up to in outside life , then I advise you strongly to take that ideal , examine it
closely , and then cast it away . It is not a good one . The ideal that it is impossible
...
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| Title | The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches Volume 3 of Publications of the Roosevelt Memorial Association Volume 272 of Riverside literature series Issue 3 of Roosevelt memorial association |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | John Ashby Lester |
| Compiled by | Hermann Hagedorn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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