An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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... America has no poor . Americans want to make this literally true . America demands that man shall be economically free , and she gives the opportunity . So the American Bible must treat of Economics— the highest science man has yet ...
... America has no poor . Americans want to make this literally true . America demands that man shall be economically free , and she gives the opportunity . So the American Bible must treat of Economics— the highest science man has yet ...
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... American Bible must be simple and practical , in order to meet the needs of Americans , who are essentially a plain , practical , upright , progressive , evolving people , intent on obeying the divine law of self - preservation . For ...
... American Bible must be simple and practical , in order to meet the needs of Americans , who are essentially a plain , practical , upright , progressive , evolving people , intent on obeying the divine law of self - preservation . For ...
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... American gentleman , who loved truth above all else He believed that for man to develop his body , his brain , his sense of beauty and refinement , was the best use to which he could give his life . He knew various countries , all ...
... American gentleman , who loved truth above all else He believed that for man to develop his body , his brain , his sense of beauty and refinement , was the best use to which he could give his life . He knew various countries , all ...
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