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Pagina 3
... officers were mostly Canadians . The a moral effect of so rapidly dispatching that same first contingent of upwards of thirty thousand men , even granting that they were lacking in training , was incalculable , both abroad and at home ...
... officers were mostly Canadians . The a moral effect of so rapidly dispatching that same first contingent of upwards of thirty thousand men , even granting that they were lacking in training , was incalculable , both abroad and at home ...
Pagina 4
... officers at high pressure . Here I will only point out that entering as a cadet at the R.M.C. did not by any means necessarily mean that a boy was intending to become a soldier . As a matter of fact , only a minority of those who took ...
... officers at high pressure . Here I will only point out that entering as a cadet at the R.M.C. did not by any means necessarily mean that a boy was intending to become a soldier . As a matter of fact , only a minority of those who took ...
Pagina 10
... officer in charge has told us of four or five deaths on the train tself . While the stout Frenchwomen board the train with their offerings , half a dozen Englishmen in khaki tread their way through the crowd to where stretch- ers are ...
... officer in charge has told us of four or five deaths on the train tself . While the stout Frenchwomen board the train with their offerings , half a dozen Englishmen in khaki tread their way through the crowd to where stretch- ers are ...
Pagina 12
... officer , and receive also many visits of courtesy and interest from officers stationed in the neighborhood . Finally , the patients themselves have shown their appreciation in the most welcome way , by the rapidity with which they have ...
... officer , and receive also many visits of courtesy and interest from officers stationed in the neighborhood . Finally , the patients themselves have shown their appreciation in the most welcome way , by the rapidity with which they have ...
Pagina 13
... officers of forty and upwards . Of every class , too , and pro- fession . We have had many school- masters , one of whom wrote agreeable verse , while another composed music . Some men are from quite the upper middle class , sons , for ...
... officers of forty and upwards . Of every class , too , and pro- fession . We have had many school- masters , one of whom wrote agreeable verse , while another composed music . Some men are from quite the upper middle class , sons , for ...
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Pagina 675 - The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ... He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Pagina 127 - The Government of the United States notifies the Imperial Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, the suggestion that respect by the German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way, or in the slightest degree, be made contingent
Pagina 675 - himself, the mighty are afraid. . . . He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ... He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Pagina 561 - of Omar Khayyam:— I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropped in its lap from some once lovely Head.
Pagina 439 - Among innumerable false, unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, untemfied, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. The
Pagina 560 - I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
Pagina 139 - of a real European partnership, based on the recognition of equal rights, and established and enforced by .a common will. A year ago that would have sounded like a Utopian idea. It is probably one that may not, or will not, be realized either today or tomorrow. If and when this war is decided
Pagina 573 - United States, born under other flags, but welcomed here under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life, who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our government into contempt, to destroy our industries
Pagina 278 - figured nothing nearer to experience than a wild eastern caravan, looming into view with crude colors in the sun, fierce pipes in the air, high spears against the sky, all a thrill, a natural joy to mingle with, but turning off short before it reached her and plunging into other defiles. ... It was extraordinary; they
Pagina 637 - career, wrote: Where'er thy Navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings. Although the wings are no longer canvas, the statement holds as good now as it did more than two hundred years ago. For a long time the British Navy afforded the best guarantee for peace possessed by the