The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous lifeP. F. Collier, 1901 - 19 pages V. 1, 2, 3, 4 -- The winning of the West. v. 5, 6 -- The naval war of 1812. v. 7 -- Hunting the grisly and other sketches. v. 8 -- The wilderness hunter. v. 9 -- Hunting trips of a ranchman; Hunting trips on the Prairies and in the mountains. v. 10 -- American ideals; Administration-civil service. v. 12 -- The strenuous life. v. 13, 14, 15, 16 -- Presidential addresses and state papers. |
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... hand ; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they ...
... hand ; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they ...
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... hand ? " Peace is a great good ; and doubly harmful , there- fore , is the attitude of those who advocate it in terms that would make it synonymous with selfish and cowardly shrinking from warring against the ex- istence of evil . The ...
... hand ? " Peace is a great good ; and doubly harmful , there- fore , is the attitude of those who advocate it in terms that would make it synonymous with selfish and cowardly shrinking from warring against the ex- istence of evil . The ...
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... hand , and of his unhealthy peace - mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind would be as incapable of the moral degrada- tion of the novel as of the decadent morality of the philosophy . If Tolstoi's countrymen had acted ac- VOL ...
... hand , and of his unhealthy peace - mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind would be as incapable of the moral degrada- tion of the novel as of the decadent morality of the philosophy . If Tolstoi's countrymen had acted ac- VOL ...
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... hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have forgotten the defeat of the Greeks by the Turks , of the Italians by the Abys- sinians , and the ...
... hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have forgotten the defeat of the Greeks by the Turks , of the Italians by the Abys- sinians , and the ...
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... hand , mere beating the air , mere visionary adherence to a nebulous and possibly highly undesirable ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all con- tact with the rough world of actual life , and ...
... hand , mere beating the air , mere visionary adherence to a nebulous and possibly highly undesirable ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all con- tact with the rough world of actual life , and ...
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