Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... effect of which is to subject neutral nations or neu- tral persons to new and immeasurable risks . " The German Government must not expect the United States Government to " omit any word or act " necessary to preserve the rights of ...
... effect of which is to subject neutral nations or neu- tral persons to new and immeasurable risks . " The German Government must not expect the United States Government to " omit any word or act " necessary to preserve the rights of ...
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... effect to the policy which they regard as in the national interest . Every Foreign Office , more- over , has its traditional attitudes . The vis inertiae , which necessarily perme- ates a more or less unchecked auto- cratic authority ...
... effect to the policy which they regard as in the national interest . Every Foreign Office , more- over , has its traditional attitudes . The vis inertiae , which necessarily perme- ates a more or less unchecked auto- cratic authority ...
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... effect of alleviating as much as possible the calamities of war ; that the only legitimate object which States should endeavor to accomplish during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy ; that for this purpose it is ...
... effect of alleviating as much as possible the calamities of war ; that the only legitimate object which States should endeavor to accomplish during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy ; that for this purpose it is ...
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... effect its purpose — viz . the defeating and cap- ture of the enemy's armed forces , the isolation and starvation of the enemy's population to prevent it from obtain- ing means to continue the struggle , and in general the doing of such ...
... effect its purpose — viz . the defeating and cap- ture of the enemy's armed forces , the isolation and starvation of the enemy's population to prevent it from obtain- ing means to continue the struggle , and in general the doing of such ...
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... effect of melinite is particularly deadly . In ad- dition to the shock of its explosion , which is sufficient to kill a man with- out causing a visible wound , it fills the air with countless splintered frag- ments of wood . There was ...
... effect of melinite is particularly deadly . In ad- dition to the shock of its explosion , which is sufficient to kill a man with- out causing a visible wound , it fills the air with countless splintered frag- ments of wood . There was ...
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Page 444 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again.
Page 444 - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not...
Page 108 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 600 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 401 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 388 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 297 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 607 - March would constitute, were its provisions to be actually carried into effect as they stand, a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area, and an almost unqualified denial of the sovereign rights of the nations now at peace.
Page 444 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 6 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.