 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...  The American Monthly Review of Reviews - Página 179editado por - 1901Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas B. Stephens - 2016 - 184 páginas
...soldier and a very distinguished lawyer, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."2 It is the state of mind of the Ming censor Zuo Guangdou who, unable to prevail upon his emperor,... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 páginas
...that the 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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.43 This soldierly blindness involves an agnostic's abdication before a Final Judgment — the "supposed... | |
 | G. Edward White - 1995 - 649 páginas
..."senseless passion," a "faith . . . which leads a soldier to throw his life away in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." The references to campaigns and tactics reminded Holmes of his own anarchic wartime meanderings, and... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 páginas
..."that the 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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."11 Applied to civil life, this heroism suggests the determination of a patrician to stick to his... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 páginas
...that the 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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." 64 Holmes's persistent popularity among "realists" and "pragmatists" in the twentieth century is a... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 páginas
...that the 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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."64 Holmes's persistent popularity among "realists" and "pragmatists" in the twentieth century... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1996 - 378 páginas
...that the 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...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... | |
 | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson - 1998 - 442 páginas
...is true and adorable," Holmes wrote, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."42 When Mark Twain linked religion and war, he was bitter at the hypocrisy of standing up for... | |
 | Jeff Land - 1999 - 210 páginas
...that the 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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. — OLIVER w. HOLMES, "THE SOLDIER'S FAITH." IN THE MIND AND FAITH or JUSTICE HOLMES. SELECTED AND... | |
 | Nancy Niblack Baxter - 1980 - 258 páginas
...that faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blind accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaigns of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. The Fourteenth... | |
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