Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore RooseveltMacmillan, 1920 - 365 páginas |
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... standing among scientists as an authority on the habits of big game in America and in Africa , his popularity and effectiveness as a speaker , his wide range of reading to which might be applied De- Quincey's description of his own ...
... standing among scientists as an authority on the habits of big game in America and in Africa , his popularity and effectiveness as a speaker , his wide range of reading to which might be applied De- Quincey's description of his own ...
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... . " A similar statement could be made regarding the interest and scientific value of his later book , Through the Brazilian Wilderness . The above quotation suggests the standing which Roosevelt's observations on χχίν INTRODUCTION.
... . " A similar statement could be made regarding the interest and scientific value of his later book , Through the Brazilian Wilderness . The above quotation suggests the standing which Roosevelt's observations on χχίν INTRODUCTION.
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... standing which Roosevelt's observations on the habits of mammals and birds have among naturalists . Most of his writing in this field was done incidentally to his accounts of his hunting trips . There is comparatively little of this ...
... standing which Roosevelt's observations on the habits of mammals and birds have among naturalists . Most of his writing in this field was done incidentally to his accounts of his hunting trips . There is comparatively little of this ...
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... stand certain features of his style . In general it is clear rather than elegant , and like the man himself , charac- terized by force and emphatic power rather than by 1 The Man Roosevelt , Chapter XVII . The oral method of polish and ...
... stand certain features of his style . In general it is clear rather than elegant , and like the man himself , charac- terized by force and emphatic power rather than by 1 The Man Roosevelt , Chapter XVII . The oral method of polish and ...
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... stand for a sentence , I hold grammatical rigor in con- tempt , ' or the remark of Henry Ward Beecher to the person who was speaking of grammatical faults in one of Beecher's sermons , ' Young man , when the English lan- guage gets in ...
... stand for a sentence , I hold grammatical rigor in con- tempt , ' or the remark of Henry Ward Beecher to the person who was speaking of grammatical faults in one of Beecher's sermons , ' Young man , when the English lan- guage gets in ...
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Página 220 - ... spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...
Página 220 - ... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.— Theodore Roosevelt.
Página 234 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Página 167 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor ; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Página 166 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Página 180 - The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor.
Página 168 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Página 178 - An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does no good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Now, it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it, and, if it is slurred over in repetition, not difficult really to misunderstand it.
Página 354 - Interpreter takes them apart again and has them first into a room, where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one, over his head, with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered...
Página 177 - Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand ; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.