The Finding of NorahHoughton Mifflin, 1918 - 91 страница |
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... tried to explain that if we were so ready to believe the worst of Germany , we should be as bad , almost , as the Germans themselves . For it was mostly because they thought no one but themselves were fit to be alive that the war was ...
... tried to explain that if we were so ready to believe the worst of Germany , we should be as bad , almost , as the Germans themselves . For it was mostly because they thought no one but themselves were fit to be alive that the war was ...
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... tried to explain that it seemed to her a just and simple thing for him to have requested agonizing nations to state upon what terms they would consider the cessation of agony . This caused her to be accused of being pro - German . Norah ...
... tried to explain that it seemed to her a just and simple thing for him to have requested agonizing nations to state upon what terms they would consider the cessation of agony . This caused her to be accused of being pro - German . Norah ...
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Eugenia Brooks Frothingham. Sometimes she let these complaints pass in silence , sometimes she tried to make him realize his inconsistency , and then he was at once , and naturally , angry . Many people talked like Henry , but generally ...
Eugenia Brooks Frothingham. Sometimes she let these complaints pass in silence , sometimes she tried to make him realize his inconsistency , and then he was at once , and naturally , angry . Many people talked like Henry , but generally ...
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... And now the girl began to see her hap- piness with Henry slipping away as sand slips through an hour - glass . " But I will not have it so , " she cried to herself , fear- ing to see life so bereft . She tried for 66 THE FINDING OF NORAH.
... And now the girl began to see her hap- piness with Henry slipping away as sand slips through an hour - glass . " But I will not have it so , " she cried to herself , fear- ing to see life so bereft . She tried for 66 THE FINDING OF NORAH.
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Eugenia Brooks Frothingham. ing to see life so bereft . She tried for a while to be only those things which he wished her to be . She deliberately used her powers of charm and mirth and ten- derness , hoping by rekindling his love to ...
Eugenia Brooks Frothingham. ing to see life so bereft . She tried for a while to be only those things which he wished her to be . She deliberately used her powers of charm and mirth and ten- derness , hoping by rekindling his love to ...
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Страница 86 - 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 86 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making : We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are not common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life.
Страница 42 - Wilson once said that there was "such a thing as being too proud to fight"; there is also, or ought to be, such a thing as being too confident to conform, too strong to be silent in the face of apparent error. Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals of national adulation.