The Living Age, Volume 290Living Age Company, 1916 |
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Pagina 1
... possible . If neither of these can be procured , the money should be sent in a registered letter . All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so . Drafts , checks express and money orders should be made payable ...
... possible . If neither of these can be procured , the money should be sent in a registered letter . All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so . Drafts , checks express and money orders should be made payable ...
Pagina 10
... possible to do to alleviate their suffer- ings . So the railway station on the night of the arrival of a batch of wound- ed is not a shambles , and the scene , though a pathetic , is not a ghastly one : many of the men are able to shift ...
... possible to do to alleviate their suffer- ings . So the railway station on the night of the arrival of a batch of wound- ed is not a shambles , and the scene , though a pathetic , is not a ghastly one : many of the men are able to shift ...
Pagina 12
... possible to say that in spite of the fact that they are in the hands of foreigners , none of them have felt in the least dépaysé . Their sense of humor has been more valuable to the French in the present crisis than legions of doctors ...
... possible to say that in spite of the fact that they are in the hands of foreigners , none of them have felt in the least dépaysé . Their sense of humor has been more valuable to the French in the present crisis than legions of doctors ...
Pagina 14
... possible to suggest that their very familiarity with religion en- courages irreverence : " a man needs to be on pretty close terms with religion to make a joke of his divinity . " At any rate , even when familiarity verges on profanity ...
... possible to suggest that their very familiarity with religion en- courages irreverence : " a man needs to be on pretty close terms with religion to make a joke of his divinity . " At any rate , even when familiarity verges on profanity ...
Pagina 39
... possible that the criticism is double - edged , and that what we are celebrating with our laughter is the failure of the world ? A wonderful thing in Cervantes's handling of his story is his absolute honesty and candor . He does not ...
... possible that the criticism is double - edged , and that what we are celebrating with our laughter is the failure of the world ? A wonderful thing in Cervantes's handling of his story is his absolute honesty and candor . He does not ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 673 - 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 129 - 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 673 - 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 559 - 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 443 - 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 558 - 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 143 - 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 571 - 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 282 - 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 635 - 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