Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 94Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1917 - American literature |
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... live man , who watches what is toward in the Hun trenches - again camouflage . But perhaps the subtlest va- riety of all camouflage is the kind that men and women devise to screen their real emotions from one another and from the world ...
... live man , who watches what is toward in the Hun trenches - again camouflage . But perhaps the subtlest va- riety of all camouflage is the kind that men and women devise to screen their real emotions from one another and from the world ...
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... live always in close proximity , and far from everything which they have hitherto known as life . Doubt- less they will have their good hours ; at times , when their minds are filled with thoughts of those they love and of their ...
... live always in close proximity , and far from everything which they have hitherto known as life . Doubt- less they will have their good hours ; at times , when their minds are filled with thoughts of those they love and of their ...
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... live on the provisions of t " adopted brothers , " were greatly distre that they had nothing to share but t poverty . sane . pr But if charity was lively , gaiety was The little fathers were stupe with astonishment . They looked upor as ...
... live on the provisions of t " adopted brothers , " were greatly distre that they had nothing to share but t poverty . sane . pr But if charity was lively , gaiety was The little fathers were stupe with astonishment . They looked upor as ...
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... live without calculation , to act solely as the heart dic- tated - it was like paradise . Even the veterans of Manchuria and the Afghan- istan campaigns , with all their tinsmith's shop of commemorative medals and their grizzled heads ...
... live without calculation , to act solely as the heart dic- tated - it was like paradise . Even the veterans of Manchuria and the Afghan- istan campaigns , with all their tinsmith's shop of commemorative medals and their grizzled heads ...
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... live together , who know themselves to have been intrusted with the most exalted of human missions , and each one of whom makes the fulfil- ment of that mission a point of personal honor . How different is Germany ! The country ...
... live together , who know themselves to have been intrusted with the most exalted of human missions , and each one of whom makes the fulfil- ment of that mission a point of personal honor . How different is Germany ! The country ...
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Page 181 - FATHER, whate'er of earthly bliss Thy sovereign will denies, Accepted at thy throne of grace, Let this petition rise: 2 Give me a calm, a thankful heart, From every murmur free; The blessings of thy grace impart, And make me live to thee. 3 Let the sweet hope that thou art mine My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.
Page 482 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 179 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 483 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Page 92 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators.
Page 504 - Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten, Dass ich so traurig bin; Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten, Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Page 10 - If, owing to such alterations, immediate danger threatens other states, the powers bind themselves, by peaceful means, or if need be by arms, to bring back the guilty state into the bosom of the Great Alliance.
Page 179 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Page 171 - I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united, independent, and autonomous Poland, and that henceforth inviolable security of life, of worship, and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of governments devoted to a faith and purpose hostile to their own.
Page 823 - Chancellor in the above sense, and add most earnestly that the one way of maintaining the good relations between England and Germany is that they should continue to work together to preserve the peace of Europe...