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... talk of Crusades and Galahads was untrue . To us at school , the soldiers were heroes , men of a new stamp and mould , for whom we must try to be worthy , since fate decreed that we could not join them . We discussed how we must change ...
... talk of Crusades and Galahads was untrue . To us at school , the soldiers were heroes , men of a new stamp and mould , for whom we must try to be worthy , since fate decreed that we could not join them . We discussed how we must change ...
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... . . " Over these figures the Cap'n nodded appreciatively . Wonderful mechanism the radio - sit right at home and know what's going on in all parts of the world . The radio voice began to talk about the grain market. 44.
... . . " Over these figures the Cap'n nodded appreciatively . Wonderful mechanism the radio - sit right at home and know what's going on in all parts of the world . The radio voice began to talk about the grain market. 44.
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The radio voice began to talk about the grain market . The Cap'n took two puffs from his pipe and turned the dials to WRAN . Yes , the Bedtime Story was going full blast . " Who are you , may I ask ? ' said the little boy . ' I'm a ...
The radio voice began to talk about the grain market . The Cap'n took two puffs from his pipe and turned the dials to WRAN . Yes , the Bedtime Story was going full blast . " Who are you , may I ask ? ' said the little boy . ' I'm a ...
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... talk and everything . " " Think you can git ahold of him to- night ? " " You bet I kin . Have him up here in a jiffy . " Willie left on the run . The Cap'n paced the room impatiently , stopping now and then in front of the horn to ...
... talk and everything . " " Think you can git ahold of him to- night ? " " You bet I kin . Have him up here in a jiffy . " Willie left on the run . The Cap'n paced the room impatiently , stopping now and then in front of the horn to ...
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... talk with him . Connect him with Eaves . " A few minutes later the clerk was back . " He says he doesn't want to ask about his son . Says he's got a private message he must deliver to you personally . " " Oh , well . " Snyder picked up ...
... talk with him . Connect him with Eaves . " A few minutes later the clerk was back . " He says he doesn't want to ask about his son . Says he's got a private message he must deliver to you personally . " " Oh , well . " Snyder picked up ...
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Page 137 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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Page 664 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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Page 141 - Therefore since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Page 350 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 138 - Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the importation of Divine personages from any antique Mythology as ready-made sources or channels of Causation, even in verse, and excluded the celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions to the First or Fundamental Energy seemed a necessary and logical consequence of the long abandonment by thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same.
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