| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1896 - 88 páginas
...that buffoons forget. We need it everywhere and at all times. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...rejoice at every dangerous sport which I see pursued. The students at Heidelberg, with their sword-slashed faces, inspire me with sincere respect. I gaze... | |
| 1903 - 462 páginas
...and in order that we may be ready for danger." "For," he adds, "high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism." It is this strenuous doctrine which leads this tall, refined, chivalrous judge with many wounds of... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - 1896 - 716 páginas
...that buffoons forget. We need it everywhere and at all times. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...rejoice at every dangerous sport which I see pursued. The students at Heidelberg, with their sword-slashed faces, inspire me with sincere respect. I gaze... | |
| 1918 - 580 páginas
...no 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...Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism." ' That 's pretty good stuff, ' Jack said in an embarrassed fashion. 'You might send it to me — if... | |
| G. Edward White - 1995 - 649 páginas
...world, and in order that we may be ready for danger. . . . For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism. . . . Therefore I rejoice at every dangerous sport which I see pursued. ... If once in a while in our... | |
| Max Lerner - 1994 - 254 páginas
...tempestuous untamed streaming of the world." "High and dangerous action," he had said, "teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...our doubting minds are slow to find words of proof." If Holmes had been less of a philosopher, he would have come close to being something of a fire-eater.... | |
| Max Lerner - 1994 - 364 páginas
...tempestuous untamed streaming of the world." "High and dangerous action," he had said, "teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...our doubting minds are slow to find words of proof." If Holmes had been less of a philosopher, he would have come close to being something of a firebrand.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1996 - 378 páginas
...that buffoons forget. We need it everywhere and at all times. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...rejoice at every dangerous sport which I see pursued. The students at Heidelberg, with their sword-slashed faces, inspire me with sincere respect. I gaze... | |
| John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 páginas
...(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), 18: 147. ing. "For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...our doubting minds are slow to find words of proof. ... I gaze with delight upon our polo players. If once in a while in our rough riding a neck is broken,... | |
| Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 páginas
...that buffoons forget. We need it everywhere and at all times. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which...rejoice at every dangerous sport which I see pursued. The students at Heidelberg, with their sword-slashed faces, inspire me with sincere respect. I gaze... | |
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