 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
 | Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 637 páginas
...delivered on Memorial Day in 1895, "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." Small comfort the words must have been to the widows and orphans in attendance. But Holmes was a hard... | |
 | Mark S. Weiner - 2006 - 197 páginas
...believed "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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."33 Soon after the Confederate surrender, Powell returned to a teaching position at Illinois State... | |
 | Alex Vernon - 2006 - 120 páginas
...faith "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Then we went to war. The year after the 1898 war against Spain in Cuba and the Philippines, President... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 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 has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic... | |
 | Robert J. Miller - 2007 - 264 páginas
...faith. "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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." In a little known incident, when Jubal Early's Confederates threatened Washington, DC, in the summer... | |
 | Jeffrey Rosen - 2007 - 288 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."14 The speech so impressed Theodore Roosevelt ("By Jove, that speech of Holmes's was fine") that... | |
 | John Pettegrew - 2007 - 434 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 or campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics which he does not see the use. Holmes understood... | |
 | Strobe Talbott - 2008 - 505 páginas
.... . [T]he 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 has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use . . . War, when you are at it, is horrible... | |
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