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Chapter XXXV—Mr. Depew's Estimate Of Garfield.
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My task is drawing near a close. I have, in different parts of this volume, expressed my own estimate of our lamented1 President. No character in our history, as it seems to me, furnishes a brighter or more inspiring example to boys and young men. It is for this reason that I have been induced to write the story of his life especially for American boys, conceiving that in no way can I do them a greater service.
But I am glad, in confirmation2 of my own estimate, to quote at length the eloquent3 words of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, in his address before the Grand Army of the Republic. He says of Garfield:
"In America and Europe he is recognized as an illustrious example of the results of free institutions. His career shows what can be accomplished4 where all avenues are open and exertion5 is untrammeled. Our annals afford no such incentive6 to youth as does his life, and it will become one of the republic's household stories. No boy in poverty almost hopeless, thirsting for knowledge, meets an obstacle which Garfield did not experience and overcome. No youth despairing in darkness feels a gloom which he did not dispel7. No young man filled with honorable ambition can encounter a difficulty which he did not meet and surmount8. For centuries to come great men will trace their rise from humble9 origins to the inspirations of that lad who learned to read by the light of a pine-knot in a log-cabin; who, ragged10 and barefooted, trudged
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magistrate
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providence
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importunity
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unity
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bliss
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treasury
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inquiry
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alleviation
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tolling
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[财]来料加工 | |
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muffled
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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shaft
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