War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War AccessoriesDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 296 páginas |
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War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War Accessories David Starr Jordan Vista completa - 1913 |
War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War Accessories David Starr Jordan Vista completa - 1913 |
War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War Accessories David Starr Jordan Vista completa - 1913 |
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Página 208 - When, through the clouds of smoke, he saw the fire of the guns, the decks covered with mangled limbs, and bodies dead or dying; the ships sinking, burning, or blown...
Página 27 - This sublime and terrible phrase," says another writer, " sums up Spanish history." In 1630, according to Captain Calkins, the Augustinian friar, La Puente, thus summed up the fate of Spain : "Against the credit for redeemed souls, I set the cost of armadas and the sacrifice of soldiers and friars sent to the Philippines. And this I count the chief loss : for mines give silver and forests give timber, but only Spain gives Spaniards, and she may give so many that she may be left desolate and constrained...
Página 29 - was the ghosts of our fathers guiding our hands and beating in our hearts. They are not dead, these ghosts, those spirits of our war-like ancestors. Scratch a Japanese, even one of the most advanced ideas, and you will find a Samurai.
Página 208 - I have made no mistake; this is really the earth, and these are men. Devils never treat one another in this cruel manner; they have more sense, and more of what men (vainly) call humanity.
Página 32 - There's a widow in Sleepy Chester Who mourns for her only son. There's a grave by the Pabeng River A grave which the Burmans shun. If we would know why Chester is sleepy, we have only to turn to her great cathedral. The long north side of her red sandstone walls tells of her dead, the world over, and always the same story.
Página 281 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace — one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity — it must be known that we are, at all times, ready for war.
Página 25 - Amidst ever-deepening misery they struggled on, until of the 600,000 men who had proudly crossed the Nieman for the conquest of Russia, only 20,000 famished, frost-bitten, unarmed spectres staggered across the bridge of Korno in the middle of December.
Página 37 - But a new generation has grown up of men and women born since the war. They have taken the nation's problems into their hands; but theirs are hands not so strong or so clean as though the men that are, stood shoulder to shoulder with the men that might have been. The men that died in "the weary time" had better stuff in them than the father of the average man of to-day.
Página 34 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha...
Página 35 - Quetelet, there will appear in each generation the same number of potential poets, artists, investigators, patriots, athletes and superior men of each degree.