Shandygaff: A Number of Most Agreeable Inquirendoes Upon Life and Letters Interspersed with Short Stories and Skitts, the Whole Most Diverting to the Reader : Accompanied Also by Some Notes for Teachers Whereby the Booke May be Made Usefull in Class-room Or for Private ImprovementDoubleday, Page, 1918 - 326 страница |
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Страница 80 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Страница 77 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval.
Страница 69 - The Dead BLOW out, you bugles, over the rich Dead ! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth ; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king,...
Страница 70 - These I have loved : White plates and cups, clean-gleaming, Ringed with blue lines ; and feathery, faery dust ; Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust Of friendly bread ; and many-tasting food ; Rainbows ; and the blue bitter smoke of wood ; And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers ; And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours, Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon; Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble...
Страница 77 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 79 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included : for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
Страница 77 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Страница 57 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Страница 77 - Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest.
Страница 252 - Nor, with the loss of thy lov'd rest, Bringst home the ingot from the West. No, thy ambition's masterpiece Flies no thought higher than a fleece ; Or how to pay thy hinds, and clear All scores, and so to end the year : But walk'st about thine own dear bounds, Not envying others' larger grounds : For well thou know'st 'tis not th' extent Of land makes life, but sweet content.