 | Robert J. Miller - 2007 - 264 páginas
...of faith was purely existential, and God was gone from that faith. "That faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...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
...of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...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
...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...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
...built on but the soldier's choice of honor rather than life? . . . [T]he faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...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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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... 
