The Reckoning: A Discussion of the Moral Aspects of the Peace Problem, and of Retributive Justice as an Indispensable ElementG. P. Putnam's sons, 1918 - 225 páginas |
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... Hohenzollern was not then destroyed and in this present world war it is an ominous parallel to recall that the coalition failed in 1759 in securing a final triumph over a robber dynasty through the treachery of Russia . When the ...
... Hohenzollern was not then destroyed and in this present world war it is an ominous parallel to recall that the coalition failed in 1759 in securing a final triumph over a robber dynasty through the treachery of Russia . When the ...
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... Hohenzollern dynasty . That event is nearing with amazing rapidity . The bell of the great temple of justice is already sounding to convene the Grand Assize of the nations . The days of the Hohenzollern dynasty are numbered . The author ...
... Hohenzollern dynasty . That event is nearing with amazing rapidity . The bell of the great temple of justice is already sounding to convene the Grand Assize of the nations . The days of the Hohenzollern dynasty are numbered . The author ...
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... Hohenzollern Dynasty , but the Prussian Empire itself . In the final negotiations , President Wilson , in exercising his constitutional initiative to propose a treaty of peace , will be guided by the public opinion of America . The ...
... Hohenzollern Dynasty , but the Prussian Empire itself . In the final negotiations , President Wilson , in exercising his constitutional initiative to propose a treaty of peace , will be guided by the public opinion of America . The ...
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... Hohenzollern dynasty , yet none has demanded in any formal way that the Prussian Empire , which in 1871 was conceived in iniquity and born in violence , should be disintegrated by the separation of the German States from Prussia and the ...
... Hohenzollern dynasty , yet none has demanded in any formal way that the Prussian Empire , which in 1871 was conceived in iniquity and born in violence , should be disintegrated by the separation of the German States from Prussia and the ...
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... Hohenzollern dynasty , which had all the vices of the Napoleonic régime and none of its constructive virtues , again entered upon its career 32 The Reckoning.
... Hohenzollern dynasty , which had all the vices of the Napoleonic régime and none of its constructive virtues , again entered upon its career 32 The Reckoning.
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The Reckoning: A Discussion of the Moral Aspects of the Peace Problem, and ... James Montgomery Beck Vista de fragmentos - 1918 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 151 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Página 137 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught : leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
Página 210 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Página 159 - We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name. To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Página 196 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of International covenants.
Página 201 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Página 1 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 203 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Página 12 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 151 - Examples, gross as earth, exhort me : "Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit with divine ambition pufTd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell.