Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, WhitmanYale review, 1919 - 90 sider |
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... Lincoln , and Roosevelt . But not all great Americans have been in public life ; and , of those who have , very few have been Presidents of the United States . What is greatness ? Roosevelt himself rightly in- sists on character as the ...
... Lincoln , and Roosevelt . But not all great Americans have been in public life ; and , of those who have , very few have been Presidents of the United States . What is greatness ? Roosevelt himself rightly in- sists on character as the ...
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... Lincoln , we know through what cold obstruction he struggled up into the light , educating himself to be one of the soundest statesmen and most effective public speakers of his day — or any day . There was an in- born fineness or ...
... Lincoln , we know through what cold obstruction he struggled up into the light , educating himself to be one of the soundest statesmen and most effective public speakers of his day — or any day . There was an in- born fineness or ...
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... Lincoln's readiness to acquiesce in the result of the election in 1864 and to retire peace- ably in favor of McClellan ; contrasting it with Cromwell's dissolution of his Parlia- ments and usurpation of the supreme power . There was a ...
... Lincoln's readiness to acquiesce in the result of the election in 1864 and to retire peace- ably in favor of McClellan ; contrasting it with Cromwell's dissolution of his Parlia- ments and usurpation of the supreme power . There was a ...
Side 23
... drinking Scotch highballs ! He made them all turn out and ride fifty miles a day . Mr. Roosevelt produced much excellent literature , but no masterpieces like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and 23 ROOSEVELT AS MAN OF LETTERS.
... drinking Scotch highballs ! He made them all turn out and ride fifty miles a day . Mr. Roosevelt produced much excellent literature , but no masterpieces like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and 23 ROOSEVELT AS MAN OF LETTERS.
Side 24
... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural . Probably his sketches of ranch life and of hunting trips in three continents will be read longest and will keep their freshness after the public questions which he discussed have lost ...
... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural . Probably his sketches of ranch life and of hunting trips in three continents will be read longest and will keep their freshness after the public questions which he discussed have lost ...
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Side 68 - And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Side 14 - It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
Side 64 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 59 - Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit.
Side 57 - The story comes home to me like truth. Oftentimes, as an intellectual and moral exercise, I have sought to follow that poor youth through his subsequent career, and observe how his soul was tortured by the...
Side 81 - ... with the names of artists —Phidias, Raphael, Salvator Rosa— and he speaks always in such a way that it is impossible to connect what he says with any impression we have ever received from the works of those masters. In fact, Emerson has never in his life felt the normal appeal of any painting, or any sculpture, or any architecture, or any music. These things, of which he does not know the meaning in real life, he yet uses, and uses constantly, as symbols to convey ethical truths. The result...
Side 15 - ... neither victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows.
Side 77 - Let war and trade and creeds and song Blend, ripen race on race; The sunburnt world a man shall breed Of all the zones, and countless days, No ray is dimmed, no atom worn; My oldest force is good as new; And the fresh rose on yonder thorn Gives back the bending heavens in dew.
Side 41 - But it is apt to spoil two good things — a story and a moral, a meaning and a form...
Side 42 - A story there passeth of an Indian king that sent unto Alexander a fair woman, fed with aconite and other poisons, with this intent complexionally to destroy him!