 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1896 - 88 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail them... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1901 - 1526 páginas
...illusion, he adds this one fact of which he is sure, — namely, "that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has... | |
 | Robert Erskine Ely - 1907 - 542 páginas
...to throw away his life in obedience to plainly accepted duty in a cause which he little understands, a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." It is because we find his faith true and adorable that we praise the soldier, that he has been transfigured... | |
 | Arthur Train - 1918 - 328 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt — and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use !' " Jack made no reply. "'For high and dangerous action,'" I continued, " 'teaches us to believe as... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1896 - 716 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is, that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail them... | |
 | 1918 - 580 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt — and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which our doubting... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology - 1978 - 1006 páginas
...vlrumque cano".* One of our great supreme court Justices declares, "that faith Is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life In obedience to a blindly-accepted duty, In a cause which he little understands, In a plan of can-.palgn of which he... | |
 | Michael Rogin - 1985 - 374 páginas
...Battle-Pieces says, with the Civil War veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "that faith is true and adorable, which leads a soldier to throw away his life, in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." 31 Antebellum fathers like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Francis Adams, and Amasa Walker spoke with... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger Dean University of Michigan Law School - 1986 - 310 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Reprinted in The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, ed. Max Lerner (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943), 18,... | |
 | Lee Clark Mitchell - 1986 - 170 páginas
...is that the faith is true and adorable which leads 80 a soldier to throw away his life in obediance to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.8 By the 1890s, Holmes could wrench the battlefield from the social and historical context of the... | |
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But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in... 
