Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... means to continue the struggle , and in general the doing of such things as are calculated to break down the resistance of the enemy and force him to accept or sue for peace . In a previ- ous article " I have shown how the German ...
... means to continue the struggle , and in general the doing of such things as are calculated to break down the resistance of the enemy and force him to accept or sue for peace . In a previ- ous article " I have shown how the German ...
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... means of expression that a vivid faith in the unseen creates for itself . - It is these vital national character- istics that form the basis of Verhae- ren's muse . In spite of frequent so- journs abroad , in London , Paris and Spain ...
... means of expression that a vivid faith in the unseen creates for itself . - It is these vital national character- istics that form the basis of Verhae- ren's muse . In spite of frequent so- journs abroad , in London , Paris and Spain ...
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... means to an end . The end is that the Jew everywhere should retain his racial self - consciousness , and with it the ... mean the withdrawal of the best minds in the younger generation of Jews from intellectual and social movements which ...
... means to an end . The end is that the Jew everywhere should retain his racial self - consciousness , and with it the ... mean the withdrawal of the best minds in the younger generation of Jews from intellectual and social movements which ...
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... means an overwhelming emotional interest for his work - people - pre - occupation with the tabernacle and its services , general contentment and good temper , a period of oblivion for such vexatious subjects as higher wages and shorter ...
... means an overwhelming emotional interest for his work - people - pre - occupation with the tabernacle and its services , general contentment and good temper , a period of oblivion for such vexatious subjects as higher wages and shorter ...
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... means of defending himself . Indeed , it is the recognition of such differ- ences that is the foundation of moral- ity and civilization . The significance of the sinking of the Lusitania is that it conjures up a vivid picture not of the ...
... means of defending himself . Indeed , it is the recognition of such differ- ences that is the foundation of moral- ity and civilization . The significance of the sinking of the Lusitania is that it conjures up a vivid picture not of the ...
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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.