On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special CorrespondentLothrop, 1901 - 418 pages |
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Page 157
... dungeons of Morro Castle and the mighty Cabañas were crowded with Cuban patriots ; and the trampled grass between the colossal walls of the vener- able fortress was stained with the blood of insurgents murdered 157 "The Butcher"
... dungeons of Morro Castle and the mighty Cabañas were crowded with Cuban patriots ; and the trampled grass between the colossal walls of the vener- able fortress was stained with the blood of insurgents murdered 157 "The Butcher"
Page 158
... insurgents murdered in public with all the outward surroundings of law . From one end of Cuba to the other came stories of ... insurgent activity , in the shadow of the royal palace , saw to it that the lamp of American sympathy was kept ...
... insurgents murdered in public with all the outward surroundings of law . From one end of Cuba to the other came stories of ... insurgent activity , in the shadow of the royal palace , saw to it that the lamp of American sympathy was kept ...
Page 160
... insurgents like that , " and the Captain - general closed his hand as though he were strangling something . " It is hard to extinguish the republican spirit on this side of the Atlantic , " I said . on the air . " " It feeds " I have ...
... insurgents like that , " and the Captain - general closed his hand as though he were strangling something . " It is hard to extinguish the republican spirit on this side of the Atlantic , " I said . on the air . " " It feeds " I have ...
Page 161
... insurgents . Why are the Cubans fighting at all ? " It is the blame for The news- the Cuban " Because they are lawless ; because they hate authority . " " Who made them lawless ? Spain has con- trolled this island for four hundred years ...
... insurgents . Why are the Cubans fighting at all ? " It is the blame for The news- the Cuban " Because they are lawless ; because they hate authority . " " Who made them lawless ? Spain has con- trolled this island for four hundred years ...
Page 162
... insurgents is death ; do you understand that death ! " ― His teeth shone between his lips ; his eyes were the eyes of an angry wolf . " I understand ; but my death would not help the Spanish cause . There are a hundred other writers in ...
... insurgents is death ; do you understand that death ! " ― His teeth shone between his lips ; his eyes were the eyes of an angry wolf . " I understand ; but my death would not help the Spanish cause . There are a hundred other writers in ...
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Page 409 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not.
Page 134 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference.
Page 266 - I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 417 - Our fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past, their triumph won ; But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honored place ; A moral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. So let it be. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons He has given, — The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Page 409 - ... the nineteenth century there was not a mile of steam railroad on the globe. Now there are enough miles to make its circuit many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph ; now we have a vast mileage traversing all lands and all seas. God and man have linked the nations together.
Page 360 - I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave-trade in the humblest village of his dominions. / You think me a fanatic to-night, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices.
Page 134 - Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest,...
Page 361 - You think me a fanatic tonight, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of History will put Phocion for the Greek...
Page 211 - Some one knelt in the grass beside me and put his hand on my fevered head. Opening my eyes, I saw Mr. Hearst, the proprietor of the New York Journal, a straw hat with a bright ribbon on his head, a revolver at his belt, and a pencil and note-book in his hand.
Page 212 - Journal, a straw hat with a bright ribbon on his head, a revolver at his belt, and a pencil and notebook in his hand. The man who had provoked the war had come to see the result with his own eyes, and, finding one of his correspondents prostrate, was doing the work himself. Slowly he took down my story of the fight. Again and again the tinging of Mauser bullets interrupted, but he seemed unmoved. The battle had to be reported somehow. "I'm sorry you're hurt, but"— and his face was radiant with...