Dangerous DaysGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 400 pages |
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... peace for the world , or peace for a man , either . It had only one value for a man ; it gave him independence of other men , made him free . " Three things , " said the rector , apropos of something or other , and rather oratorically ...
... peace for the world , or peace for a man , either . It had only one value for a man ; it gave him independence of other men , made him free . " Three things , " said the rector , apropos of something or other , and rather oratorically ...
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... all be over before America was involved He reflected , however , that an early peace would not be a unmixed blessing for him . He wanted the war to end : 1 11 T 1 killing . He felt inarticulately that something horrible 34 DANGEROUS DAYS.
... all be over before America was involved He reflected , however , that an early peace would not be a unmixed blessing for him . He wanted the war to end : 1 11 T 1 killing . He felt inarticulately that something horrible 34 DANGEROUS DAYS.
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... peace that made those dinner parties possible , furnished an excuse for re- trenchment here and there , and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities . But although the war was in the nation's ...
... peace that made those dinner parties possible , furnished an excuse for re- trenchment here and there , and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities . But although the war was in the nation's ...
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... peace was at a fearful cost . And on the edge of this volcano America played . When Graham Spencer left the mill that Tuesday after- noc , it was to visit Marion Hayden . He was rather bored now at the prospect . He would have preferred ...
... peace was at a fearful cost . And on the edge of this volcano America played . When Graham Spencer left the mill that Tuesday after- noc , it was to visit Marion Hayden . He was rather bored now at the prospect . He would have preferred ...
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... peace ? On the contrary . Creeds , no . From that to Christianity . It had failed . there was a great revival of religious faith . Be- lief , yes . Too many men were dying to permit the growth of any skepticism as to a future life . We ...
... peace ? On the contrary . Creeds , no . From that to Christianity . It had failed . there was a great revival of religious faith . Be- lief , yes . Too many men were dying to permit the growth of any skepticism as to a future life . We ...
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Page 190 - Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices ; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory ; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 29 - WHEN first I loved, I gave my very soul Utterly unreserved to Love's control, But Love deceived me, wrenched my youth away And made the gold of life for ever grey. Long I lived lonely, yet I tried in vain With any other Joy to stifle pain ; There is no other joy, I learned to know, And so returned to Love, as long ago. Yet I, this little while ere I go hence, Love very lightly now, in self-defence. Lines by Taj...
Page 190 - ... save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 345 - Where do we go from here boys, Where do we go from here?
Page 376 - The motive for a conception according to nature is the love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man. And therefore since a singular love of the Holy Spirit burned in the Virgin's heart, the love of the Holy Spirit wrought great things in her flesh.
Page 296 - You are all that is lovely to me, All that is light, One white rose in a Desert of weariness. I only live in the night, The night, with its fair false dreams of you, You and your loveliness. Give me your love for a day, A night, an hour : If the wages of sin are Death I am willing to pay. What is my life but a breath Of passion burning away ? Away for an unplucked flower. O Aziza whom I adore, Aziza my one delight, Only one night, I will die before day, And trouble your life no more.
Page 394 - What she wanted. quite simply, was the service of love. To have her own and to care for them. She hoped, very earnestly, that she would be able to look beyond her own four walls, to see distress and to help it, but she knew, as she knew herself, that the real call to her would always be love.
Page 86 - It's the IWW, for one thing. We've got a list through the British post-office censor, of a lot of those fellows who are taking German money to-day. They're against everything. Not only work. They're against law and order. And they're likely to raise hell.
Page 345 - I want to talk to you, and I can't talk to you while you're knocked half-silly.
Page 44 - It furnished unlimited conversation at dinner parties, led to endless wrangles, gave zest and point to the peace that made those dinner parties possible, furnished an excuse for retrenchment here and there, and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities.