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Pagina 12
... less than nothing , for it will mean only that in its present condition of anæmia half the nation lacks the heroism to starve . In any event the act , whether of sign- ing or not signing , will be fatal to the present Coalition . Their ...
... less than nothing , for it will mean only that in its present condition of anæmia half the nation lacks the heroism to starve . In any event the act , whether of sign- ing or not signing , will be fatal to the present Coalition . Their ...
Pagina 14
... less than the men . The natural tend- ency to repair machinery and restart trade will be checked at every turn by the knowledge that between the burden of internal taxation amounting to half the national income , and the load of the ...
... less than the men . The natural tend- ency to repair machinery and restart trade will be checked at every turn by the knowledge that between the burden of internal taxation amounting to half the national income , and the load of the ...
Pagina 17
... less con- scious of flying than I have been at sea in a sailing ship when working aloft . Then , presently , a lot of smoke began to drift slantingly down upon us , and I thought , " Is this smoke from the engine ? " It was a thin smell ...
... less con- scious of flying than I have been at sea in a sailing ship when working aloft . Then , presently , a lot of smoke began to drift slantingly down upon us , and I thought , " Is this smoke from the engine ? " It was a thin smell ...
Pagina 19
... less so to the traveler . I have touched at many different parts of the ' frontier , ' but have always had a con- fused notion of my exact topography . One can , however , reduce the tangle to fairly simple elements by disarticulat- ing ...
... less so to the traveler . I have touched at many different parts of the ' frontier , ' but have always had a con- fused notion of my exact topography . One can , however , reduce the tangle to fairly simple elements by disarticulat- ing ...
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... less against the enemy than against the chaos which reigned in their lines of communication . As for liaison between the arms , nothing is more difficult of accomplishment . It was a problem which had to be solved in modern warfare ...
... less against the enemy than against the chaos which reigned in their lines of communication . As for liaison between the arms , nothing is more difficult of accomplishment . It was a problem which had to be solved in modern warfare ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 444 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Pagina 514 - and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. The lines
Pagina 325 - hardly be denied. . . . The states of America, South as well as North, by geographical proximity, by natural sympathy, by similarity of governmental constitutions, are friends and allies, commercially and politically, of the United States. . . . To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its flat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Pagina 443 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.' The principle of the freedom of the
Pagina 243 - from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Pagina 445 - 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871, in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Pagina 323 - has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, " are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for any future
Pagina 443 - Open covenants of peace openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public, view.' The treaty is the result of six months
Pagina 458 - Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne? We twa ha'e run about the braes And pu'd the gowans fine; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot. Sin
Pagina 171 - Let him in whose ears the low-voiced Best is killed by the clash of the First, Who holds that, if way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst, Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and begone as one shaped awry