 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
 | 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... | |
 | Albert W. Alschuler - 2000 - 348 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.72 Roosevelt wrote Senator Lodge, "By Jove, that speech of Holmes was fine."73 The president judged... | |
 | Arnold R. Isaacs - 2000 - 258 páginas
...gooks. . . . Like Oliver Wendell Holmes's soldier of the Civil War, the Vietnam combatant was involved "in a cause which he little understands, in a plan...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." This may make him a transcendently noble figure, as Holmes believed, or a tragic victim of senseless... | |
 | Christopher D. Van Aller - 2001 - 210 páginas
...that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.24 While citizen-soldiers... | |
 | David W. BLIGHT - 2009 - 525 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 understands, in a plan of campaign of which he does not see the use.74 In this church of soldiers' fraternalism, the only enemies left, by and large,... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 280 páginas
..."true and adorable" the "faith . . . 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 If Holmes's sentiment seems unremarkable from a twenty-first-century perspective, remarkable indeed... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 280 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 understands, in a plan of campaign of which he had no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Anathema to James's politics and ethics,... | |
 | Herman Melville - 2004 - 484 páginas
...adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, iri a cause which he little understands, in a plan of...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. To change our subject somewhat, it can be argued that the Civil War is what gave the cutting edge to... | |
 | Franny Nudelman - 2004 - 242 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 understands, in a plan of campaign of which he does not see the use." Qtd. in Blight. Race and Reunion, 21o. EPILOGUE I Ernest Lee Tuveson notes that... | |
 | Elliott J. Gorn, Warren Goldstein - 2004 - 310 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 understands, in a plan of campaign of which he had no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. With all faiths besieged in a Darwinian... | |
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