Ingalls of Kansas: A Character StudyThe author, 1909 - 232 pages |
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... President of a college there . The town lies rather incoherently scattered along the ridge of a stony hill , one of the spurs of the Ozark Mountains , sloping towards abrupt and picturesque valleys , shaded with forests of stunt- ed ...
... President of a college there . The town lies rather incoherently scattered along the ridge of a stony hill , one of the spurs of the Ozark Mountains , sloping towards abrupt and picturesque valleys , shaded with forests of stunt- ed ...
Page 84
... President who sits in the Council Chamber so lately vacated by the dead . The emptiness of fame , the hollow mockery of friend- ship , the vanity of ambition , the worthlessness of power , the insignificance of man , never had a more ...
... President who sits in the Council Chamber so lately vacated by the dead . The emptiness of fame , the hollow mockery of friend- ship , the vanity of ambition , the worthlessness of power , the insignificance of man , never had a more ...
Page 155
... irrelevant it might be . I visited New York and personally im- portuned the President of the Telegraph Company to produce all messages without hesitation or -11 delay . The books and vaults of the banks have 155 POLITICS.
... irrelevant it might be . I visited New York and personally im- portuned the President of the Telegraph Company to produce all messages without hesitation or -11 delay . The books and vaults of the banks have 155 POLITICS.
Page 157
... President and each Cabinet Officer , and to all the leading newspapers of the country ! Comment is unnecessary . A lawyer who in the trial of a hog case before a country justice , would resort to such attempts to influence the ...
... President and each Cabinet Officer , and to all the leading newspapers of the country ! Comment is unnecessary . A lawyer who in the trial of a hog case before a country justice , would resort to such attempts to influence the ...
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... President , is not much to the American people . The Senator from Kansas and myself know how little it counts , and all that justifies me in bringing it forward is that that Senator on such a slender foundation sees fit to appear as the ...
... President , is not much to the American people . The Senator from Kansas and myself know how little it counts , and all that justifies me in bringing it forward is that that Senator on such a slender foundation sees fit to appear as the ...
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Page 86 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 3 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 133 - Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 134 - Dost Thou behold Thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past And find the future's pages white as snow. Art Thou a mourner? rouse Thee from Thy spell; Art Thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven; Each morning gives Thee wings to flee from Hell, Each night a star to guide Thy feet to Heaven.
Page 135 - Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Page 74 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 85 - I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 135 - THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — There spread a cloud of dust along a plain ; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, ' Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears,— but this Blunt thing ! ' — he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away...
Page 28 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 134 - Weep not for golden ages on the wane! Each night I burn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. Tho' deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say, "I can!