Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... tion as to whether it is needed except for the patrol of the Atlantic sea routes . It has been stated in the English Press that opinion is prevalent in America , notably in official Washing- ton , that Germany is trying to force war ...
... tion as to whether it is needed except for the patrol of the Atlantic sea routes . It has been stated in the English Press that opinion is prevalent in America , notably in official Washing- ton , that Germany is trying to force war ...
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... tion of the sufferings due to war were adopted . At that of 1899 , besides the convention relating to the laws and customs of land warfare , there were adopted a convention for the adapta- tion to maritime warfare of the prin- ciples of ...
... tion of the sufferings due to war were adopted . At that of 1899 , besides the convention relating to the laws and customs of land warfare , there were adopted a convention for the adapta- tion to maritime warfare of the prin- ciples of ...
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... tion ? . . . Yet not to take steps to place on record infringements of them , not emphatically to condemn every evasion of their obligations , is to con- done practices they have deliberately declared to be banned from civiliza- tion ...
... tion ? . . . Yet not to take steps to place on record infringements of them , not emphatically to condemn every evasion of their obligations , is to con- done practices they have deliberately declared to be banned from civiliza- tion ...
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... tion of his fault . Still Maryvonne did not answer . " Please forgive me , " urged Pierre again . " I shall never forgive myself if I do not hold my pardon from you and shall destroy the Mignon and all its plaster replicas to - night ...
... tion of his fault . Still Maryvonne did not answer . " Please forgive me , " urged Pierre again . " I shall never forgive myself if I do not hold my pardon from you and shall destroy the Mignon and all its plaster replicas to - night ...
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... have been fa- miliar to cultivated Germans , and to- day it is through an English transla- tion of a biographical study written " by his German friend and translator , Stefan Zweig Verhaeren : Flemish Poet and Patriot . 33.
... have been fa- miliar to cultivated Germans , and to- day it is through an English transla- tion of a biographical study written " by his German friend and translator , Stefan Zweig Verhaeren : Flemish Poet and Patriot . 33.
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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.