 | Daria Frezza - 2010 - 349 pages
...American race and the Anglo-Saxon, emphasized virility over the decadence of a too-refined civilization: "The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...mind whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty life that thrills 'stern men with empires in their brains' — all these, of course, shrink from seeing... | |
 | John Pettegrew - 2007 - 434 pages
...the auditorium shook." As he warned that "weakness is the greatest of crimes," and as he championed the "mighty lift that thrills 'stern men with empires in their brains,'" American hypermasculinity became one with national expansion and war.58 Before winning the New York... | |
 | Servando D. Halili - 2006 - 242 pages
...as a timid and lazy man "who distrusts his country" (9). He further labeled the anti-imperialist as the over-civilized man, who has lost the great fighting,...that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains" .... These are the men who fear the strenuous life, who fear the only national life which is really... | |
 | 1912 - 710 pages
...endeavor. A nation with such citizens is bound to be strong and prosperous, while on the other hand, the timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...empires in their brains" — all these, of course, are undesirable citizens, because they shrink from seeing the nation undertake its numerous duties... | |
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The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern... 
