Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... less in check , and in many cases betterment has been secured through American intervention . Should the United States join the Allies in their war against Germany , Austria , and Turkey , it is not proba- ble that an army of any ...
... less in check , and in many cases betterment has been secured through American intervention . Should the United States join the Allies in their war against Germany , Austria , and Turkey , it is not proba- ble that an army of any ...
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... less . The trenches are less con- tinuous , and it is on the defence of particular points of vantage rather than on that of a continuous line of country that the efforts of both sides are concentrated . The art of forest - fighting is ...
... less . The trenches are less con- tinuous , and it is on the defence of particular points of vantage rather than on that of a continuous line of country that the efforts of both sides are concentrated . The art of forest - fighting is ...
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... less pits opened in the stony soil by German shells . Then when we had scrambled over a deep - cut communica- tion trench , the Staff Officer who was guiding us suddenly admitted that he was at a loss . " I have been to this battery ...
... less pits opened in the stony soil by German shells . Then when we had scrambled over a deep - cut communica- tion trench , the Staff Officer who was guiding us suddenly admitted that he was at a loss . " I have been to this battery ...
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... less destruction . Yet few of us till recently had any understanding of the essence of the Belgian national spirit , of its vitality and passion in the citi- zens of this modern little kingdom , the creation of diplomats . The reason ...
... less destruction . Yet few of us till recently had any understanding of the essence of the Belgian national spirit , of its vitality and passion in the citi- zens of this modern little kingdom , the creation of diplomats . The reason ...
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... less in Germany . Re- ports from all quarters , from Australia to the United States , from Holland to China , show that the tragedy has made a far deeper impression upon the whole world than any other event of the war . But whilst in ...
... less in Germany . Re- ports from all quarters , from Australia to the United States , from Holland to China , show that the tragedy has made a far deeper impression upon the whole world than any other event of the war . But whilst in ...
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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.