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... less for the higher gifts of character which often bear them company . It is no doubt true that the type of intellect which gives pre - eminence to some wonderful Admiral or General usually lacks the deep and universal note which made ...
... less for the higher gifts of character which often bear them company . It is no doubt true that the type of intellect which gives pre - eminence to some wonderful Admiral or General usually lacks the deep and universal note which made ...
Page xii
... less to wage war than to prevent it . These men know quite well how our " Iron Duke , " on the morrow of his greatest victory , came to declare : " Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won . " And they very ...
... less to wage war than to prevent it . These men know quite well how our " Iron Duke , " on the morrow of his greatest victory , came to declare : " Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won . " And they very ...
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... less than 1600 years since the distinguished Arnobius after conversion to the Faith against which he had vigorously lectured - declared that " if all men who understand that their humanity consists not in the shape of their bodies , but ...
... less than 1600 years since the distinguished Arnobius after conversion to the Faith against which he had vigorously lectured - declared that " if all men who understand that their humanity consists not in the shape of their bodies , but ...
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... less anomalous , of " Christian " Militarism . How- ever in the past the Church's witness has been spoilt and traversed by recourse to violence on the part of her own Rulers , it surely lies the more heavily on the commissioned ...
... less anomalous , of " Christian " Militarism . How- ever in the past the Church's witness has been spoilt and traversed by recourse to violence on the part of her own Rulers , it surely lies the more heavily on the commissioned ...
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... less fatefully to the " restraint " of inter- national courtesy than to the relations of class and class . The shortness of temper which casts off re- straint is by nothing so surely generated as by " shortness of thought " -incapacity ...
... less fatefully to the " restraint " of inter- national courtesy than to the relations of class and class . The shortness of temper which casts off re- straint is by nothing so surely generated as by " shortness of thought " -incapacity ...
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Page 98 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 55 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 242 - Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny: yea with one voice, o world, tho' thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.
Page 47 - I say that man was made to grow, not stop; That help, he needed once, and needs no more. Having grown but an inch by, is withdrawn : For he hath new needs, and new helps to these. This imports solely, man should mount on each New height in view; the help whereby he mounts, The ladder-rung his foot has left, may fall, Since all things suffer change save God the Truth.
Page 65 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 97 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 110 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling, that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Page 248 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war ? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain