Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... ship's com- pany into boats before the vessel was sunk ; but even this concession was denied the victims . The An attempt was made to prepare public opinion for the coming disaster by a published warning to travellers not to proceed by ...
... ship's com- pany into boats before the vessel was sunk ; but even this concession was denied the victims . The An attempt was made to prepare public opinion for the coming disaster by a published warning to travellers not to proceed by ...
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... ships travelling wherever legitimate business calls them upon the high seas , and that with confidence that their ... ship sunk with loss of life , and the cold- blooded destruction by Germany of unarmed vessels carrying non - com ...
... ships travelling wherever legitimate business calls them upon the high seas , and that with confidence that their ... ship sunk with loss of life , and the cold- blooded destruction by Germany of unarmed vessels carrying non - com ...
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... ships of campaigning , and it would be difficult to find a more cheerful and healthy - looking body of men . They are not smart as Englishmen under- stand smartness . It is almost a point of honor with them to deserve the name of ...
... ships of campaigning , and it would be difficult to find a more cheerful and healthy - looking body of men . They are not smart as Englishmen under- stand smartness . It is almost a point of honor with them to deserve the name of ...
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... ship was not a mere incident , but apparently the ac- tual object of the attack , and we are probably doing the German authori- ties no injustice in supposing that they would have been still better pleased if none had been saved . Any ...
... ship was not a mere incident , but apparently the ac- tual object of the attack , and we are probably doing the German authori- ties no injustice in supposing that they would have been still better pleased if none had been saved . Any ...
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... ships endeavoring to pass up the Dardanelles . In the circumstances the adoption of the first of these alternatives , which might have been feasible some years ago , was impossible , because it was ob- vious and clear from the first ...
... ships endeavoring to pass up the Dardanelles . In the circumstances the adoption of the first of these alternatives , which might have been feasible some years ago , was impossible , because it was ob- vious and clear from the first ...
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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.