The Life and Work of James A. Garfield ...: Embracing an Account of the Scenes and Incidents of His Boyhood; the Struggles of His Youth ... His Valor as a Soldier; His Career as a Statesman; His Election to the Presidency; and the Tragic Story of His DeathJones brothers, 1881 - 820 Seiten |
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... held years before his birth ; it has been in session all the time . If a man has musical skill , he gets it from his ancestry . It is the same with an inventor , or an artist , or a scholar , or , a preacher . This looks like the law of ...
... held years before his birth ; it has been in session all the time . If a man has musical skill , he gets it from his ancestry . It is the same with an inventor , or an artist , or a scholar , or , a preacher . This looks like the law of ...
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... held the plow - handle before he was born . Without a complaint , of his own will he worked year after year , denying himself every thing that could help his brother James to education and an ambi- tious manhood . For from the first ...
... held the plow - handle before he was born . Without a complaint , of his own will he worked year after year , denying himself every thing that could help his brother James to education and an ambi- tious manhood . For from the first ...
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... held him down by the throat . The boatmen cheered the boy on ; according to their rules of pugilism , satisfac- tion was not complete till a man's features were pounded to a jelly . " Give him a full dose , Jim ; " " Rah fer Garfield ...
... held him down by the throat . The boatmen cheered the boy on ; according to their rules of pugilism , satisfac- tion was not complete till a man's features were pounded to a jelly . " Give him a full dose , Jim ; " " Rah fer Garfield ...
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... had told heavily on the young man's constitution . Four months more ague and fever held him fast ; four months more he longed in vain for the vigor of health . During this dreary time one voice 42 LIFE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD .
... had told heavily on the young man's constitution . Four months more ague and fever held him fast ; four months more he longed in vain for the vigor of health . During this dreary time one voice 42 LIFE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD .
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... held attention . By these helps , by still working as a carpenter in the village , and in various other ways , making as much and spending as little as he could , Garfield finally left Hiram , free from debt , and possessor of three ...
... held attention . By these helps , by still working as a carpenter in the village , and in various other ways , making as much and spending as little as he could , Garfield finally left Hiram , free from debt , and possessor of three ...
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Seite 210 - Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint.
Seite 239 - Such was he: his work is done. But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example stand Colossal, seen of every land, And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure : Till in all lands and thro...
Seite 278 - There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, that of executing the public resolutions, and of trying the causes of individuals.
Seite 316 - It has been asserted by one of our profound and most gifted statesmen, that "of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's fields by the sweat of the poor man's brow.
Seite 278 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, " there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Seite 283 - States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...
Seite 470 - For the North and South alike there is but one remedy. All the constitutional power of the nation and of the States and all the volunteer forces of the people should be surrendered to meet this danger by the savory influence of universal education.
Seite 41 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine. A Man's a Man for a
Seite 307 - I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man ; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured.
Seite 412 - ... from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which their final action will be determined.