Some Gains of the War: An Address to the Royal Colonial InstituteG. H. Doran, 1918 - 29 pagine |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Some Gains of the War: An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute, Delivered ... Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh,Walter Raleigh Visualizzazione completa - 1918 |
Some Gains of the War: An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute, Delivered ... Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh,Walter Raleigh Visualizzazione completa - 1918 |
Some Gains of the War: An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute Walter Alexander Raleigh Anteprima non disponibile - 2008 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Alsace America Anzac Armada asked BELGIUM believe better British calculations miscarry called cause ceit century chivalry civil cleverness COLONIAL INSTITUTE Delivered Commonwealth of nations count dared defeat DORAN COMPANY earth's foundations employer England English language English speech Europe fashion fought Frances Wilson Huar freedom Gallipoli German doctrine German language German literature GERMAN TERROR heaven hope human Hundreds of thousands idle INSTITUTE Delivered February King of Denmark knew land League of Nations learn German little old Army live mean to win millions munition workers never oppor peace poison-gas prisoners profit prosperity Prussia put an end real gain rediscover the glory ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE seems selfish shadow of fear soldiers South Africa Spain speak splendour strength suffered sympathy thing third-class compartment tion to-day tory Toynbe tyranny understand a fight verdict victory wars Waterloo wealth word for fair workpeople world-war wounds and death
Brani popolari
Pagina 6 - ... hermitage or lapsed into pessimism and denunciation. Instead, patiently and resolutely, he threw himself into the desperate battle, turned the rout and made a better world possible. If there had not been many such men, saints canonised and uncanonised, famous and unknown, mankind would not have advanced: Their shoulders held the heavens suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay. We can perhaps learn more from them than from the prophets, for their virtues are nearer to our capacities,...
Pagina 18 - THE naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's gaze glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze; And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light, And a striving evermore for these; And he is dead who will not fight; And who dies fighting has increase.
Pagina 7 - I would have the King of Denmark, and all Princes Christian and Heathen to know, that England hath no need to crave peace; nor myself endured one hour's fear since I attained the crown thereof, being guarded with so valiant and faithful subjects.
Pagina 12 - Preach, then my dear Sir, to your son, not the excellence of human nature, nor the disrespect of riches, but endeavour to teach him thrift and oeconomy. Let his poor wandering uncles example be placd in his eyes. I had learn'd from books to love virtue, before I was taught from experience the necessity of being selfish.
Pagina 18 - ... to do. There is a form of anaemia that is more rotting than even an unjust war. The end will indeed have come to our courage and to us when we are afraid in dire mischance to refer the final appeal to the arbitrament of arms. I suppose all the lusty of our race, alive and dead, join hands on that. "And he is dead who will not fight; And who dies fighting has increase.
Pagina 10 - Empire — splendours which are now a part of our history? We are adepts at self-criticism and selfdepreciation. We hate the language of emotion. Some of us, if we were taken to heaven and asked what we thought of it, would say that it is decent, or not so bad. I suppose we are jealous to keep our standard high, and to have something to say if a better place should be found. But in spite of all this, we do now know, and it is worth knowing, that we are not weaker than our fathers. We know that the...
Pagina 22 - It may be objected that literature and art are ornamental affairs, which count for little in the deadly strife of nations. But that is not so. Our language cannot go anywhere without taking our ideas and our creed with it, not to mention our institutions and our games. If the Germans could understand what Chaucer means when he says of his Knight that he loved chivalry, Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy, then indeed we might be near to an understanding. I asked a good German scholar the other...
Pagina 15 - Under the British flag, wherever he journeyed, he found men of English speech living in an atmosphere of liberty and carrying on the dear domestic traditions of the British Isles. He saw justice firmly planted there, industry and invention...
Pagina 19 - Caliban learns, is learned for the purpose of cursing: the 'explosive guttural sounds and the huddled deformed syntax of the speech
Pagina 27 - There is something incongruous and absurd in the pacifist of British descent. He has fighting in his blood, and when his creed, or his nervous sensibility to physical horrors, denies him the use of fighting, his blood turns sour.