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I He was the youngest son of Josiah and Abiah Franklin , and one of a family of seventeen children . His father was a poor candle - maker and soap - boiler of Boston . I Benjamin Franklin became a businessman , a financier , an inventor ...
I He was the youngest son of Josiah and Abiah Franklin , and one of a family of seventeen children . His father was a poor candle - maker and soap - boiler of Boston . I Benjamin Franklin became a businessman , a financier , an inventor ...
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J Lincoln was a child of Nature , so close to the source of wisdom that he did not need to call upon books nor educators from schools , for his brain and heart divined the wisdom of the ages . His will and courage overcame the ...
J Lincoln was a child of Nature , so close to the source of wisdom that he did not need to call upon books nor educators from schools , for his brain and heart divined the wisdom of the ages . His will and courage overcame the ...
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Whitman was a genuine patriot who loved his country because his country , he believed , would afford opportunity for the development of men and women who would be children of liberty . I He loved Nature . He believed that the Great ...
Whitman was a genuine patriot who loved his country because his country , he believed , would afford opportunity for the development of men and women who would be children of liberty . I He loved Nature . He believed that the Great ...
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Especially did he ask justice , plain common justice , for women and children , and for all those who were not physically able to enforce their right to life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness . I He asked consideration for ...
Especially did he ask justice , plain common justice , for women and children , and for all those who were not physically able to enforce their right to life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness . I He asked consideration for ...
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g But when Ingersoll talked frankly of the “ Mistakes of Moses , " the veil of the temple was rent in twain , and fathers and mothers clasped their children in their arms to keep them from impending imminent danger .
g But when Ingersoll talked frankly of the “ Mistakes of Moses , " the veil of the temple was rent in twain , and fathers and mothers clasped their children in their arms to keep them from impending imminent danger .
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Page 112 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 83 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 171 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 168 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 168 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 127 - I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time.
Page 124 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 83 - Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 131 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Page 112 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An American Bible |
| Editor | Alice Hubbard |
| Contributor | Roycroft Shop |
| Publisher | Roycrofters, 1918 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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