| Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 pages
...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. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
| Ronald William Dworkin - 1996 - 276 pages
...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.26 Roosevelt made these remarks in support of virtues such as helpfulness and good neighborliness,... | |
| Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse - 2003 - 440 pages
...not admire the man of timid peace" but rather "the man who embodies victorious effort," one "who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" (13). Roosevelt's nation is not comprised of "weaklings" (18) like Sant Bowden, who was unable to enlist... | |
| Elliott J. Gorn, Warren Goldstein - 2004 - 310 pages
...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." Here was the full flowering of bourgeois masculinity for a mature industrial nation : not the wild... | |
| Michele K. Gillespie, Randal L. Hall - 2009 - 240 pages
...Teddy Roosevelt's call for a "strenuous life" for American men and the nation; America needed men with "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." 31 In an effort to attract men to Christianity, Social Gospelers such as Walter Rauschenbusch depicted... | |
| Richard Harding Davis - 2006 - 276 pages
...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. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
| Karen Ward Mahar - 2006 - 352 pages
...the Hamilton Club of Chicago entitled "The Strenuous Life," in which he celebrated the man "who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" and urged his listeners to "be glad to do a man's work, to dare and endure and to labor."36 Cinematographers... | |
| Christopher Bergland - 2007 - 406 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbors; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed In this life we get nothing save... | |
| 1918 - 990 pages
...especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor, which above everything else bring national renown. * * * By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." (The Strenuous Life.) To-day, in spite of the incredible sufferings of the war-worn, overtaxed world,... | |
| 1913 - 968 pages
...as England, Canada and the United States if participation in active warfare is necessary to preserve "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." It is undoubtedly true that the highest qualities of manhood can be developed and perpetuated only... | |
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