Character: The Grandest Thing in the WorldCrowell, 1899 - 55 pages |
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... honored by unique acts of fidelity to God and to man . It is this rigid and unquestioning adherence to duty which Mrs. Anna Jameson calls " the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together : without which all power , goodness ...
... honored by unique acts of fidelity to God and to man . It is this rigid and unquestioning adherence to duty which Mrs. Anna Jameson calls " the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together : without which all power , goodness ...
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... honors of war . To the astonishment of all , one man , the " First Grenadier of France , " came forth , and stacked arms . " But the garrison must abandon the castle ! " expostulated the Austrian chief . " Where is the garrison ? " " I ...
... honors of war . To the astonishment of all , one man , the " First Grenadier of France , " came forth , and stacked arms . " But the garrison must abandon the castle ! " expostulated the Austrian chief . " Where is the garrison ? " " I ...
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... honored wherever presented . You cannot help trusting such men ; their very presence gives confidence . There is a ' promise to pay ' in their very faces which gives confidence , and you prefer it to another man's indorsement . " This ...
... honored wherever presented . You cannot help trusting such men ; their very presence gives confidence . There is a ' promise to pay ' in their very faces which gives confidence , and you prefer it to another man's indorsement . " This ...
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... honor , and happiness . " - How were a multitude of business men who lost every dollar they had in the Chicago fire enabled to resume business at once , some in a wholesale business , with- out money ? Their record was their bank ...
... honor , and happiness . " - How were a multitude of business men who lost every dollar they had in the Chicago fire enabled to resume business at once , some in a wholesale business , with- out money ? Their record was their bank ...
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... honor to the comparative few in every walk of life who , amid the strong materialistic tendencies of our age , still speak and act earnestly , inspired by the hope of rewards other than gold or popular favor ! These are our truly great ...
... honor to the comparative few in every walk of life who , amid the strong materialistic tendencies of our age , still speak and act earnestly , inspired by the hope of rewards other than gold or popular favor ! These are our truly great ...
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advise Rome artist asked Athens beauty Beecher Character is power charity charm cheerful cold cricket divine dollars Drummond everything eyes face faith fame feel flower garrison George Peabody give Gladstone gold grace grand GRANDEST THING Greece hands happy Hardall heart heaven higher honor Horner hour human hundred ideal immortal influence instinct INTREPIDITY OF SPIRIT Jenny Lind knew labor live lost LOWELL man's manhood mankind marble Mendelssohn merchant Michael Angelo mind moral courage nature never noble nurse ORISON SWETT MARDEN Orleans orphans painting Perugino Phillips Brooks portraits present Quaker reputation rich without money ROCK OF AGES says Emerson sculptor soldier soul Star stood story success sunlight Sydney Smith tell what becomes thee Themistocles thought thousand tions told touch true truth unselfish VENUS DI MILO vicar virtue walked Watka wealth whole woman wonder word worth wounded youth