 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1899 - 492 Seiten
...possesses the genius and fire of true eloquence, will he succeed as a deliberative public speaker. " It is in the nature of war to inflame animosity ;...exasperate, not to soothe ; to widen, not to approximate. So long as this is to be acted upon, I say, it is Example of in vain to hope that we can have the evidence... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1899 - 490 Seiten
...possesses the genius and fire of true eloquence, will he succeed as a deliberative public speaker. " It is in the nature of war to inflame animosity ;...exasperate, not to soothe ; to widen, not to approximate. So long as this is to be acted upon, I say, it is Example of in vain to hope that we can have the evidence... | |
 | 1900 - 496 Seiten
...on to beat one another into friendship, is too abominable even for the fiction of romance ; but for a statesman seriously and gravely to lay it down as...exasperate, not to soothe; to widen, not to approximate. So long as this is to be acted upon, I say it is in vain to hope that we can have the evidence which... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 462 Seiten
...set on to beat one another into friendship is too abominable even for the fiction of romance; but for a statesman seriously and gravely to lay it down as...exasperate, not to soothe; to widen, not to approximate. So long as this is to be acted upon, I say it is in vain to hope that we can have the evidence which... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1903 - 490 Seiten
...on to beat one another into friendship is too abominable even for the fiction of romance ; but for a statesman seriously and gravely to lay it down as...exasperate, not to soothe ; to widen, not to approximate. So long as this is to be acted upon, I say it is in vain to hope that we can have the evidence which... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 458 Seiten
...set on to beat one another into friendship is too abominable even for the fiction of romance; but for a statesman seriously and gravely to lay it down as...means to put the French government to, but that it is hopelees? It is in the nature of war to inflame animosity; to exasperate, not to soothe; to widen,... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1911 - 478 Seiten
...on to beat one another into friendship, is too abominable even for the fiction of romance ; but for a statesman, seriously and gravely to lay it down as a system on which he means to act, is monstrous. What can we say of such a test as he means to put the French... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 Seiten
...on to beat one another into friendship, is too abominable even for the fiction of romance ; but for a statesman, seriously and gravely to lay it down...approximate. And so long as this is to be acted upon, it is vain to hope that we can have the evidence which we require. The right honourable gentleman, however,... | |
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But between nations it is more than ridiculous. It is criminal. It is a ground which no principle can justify, and which is as impracticable as it is impious. That two nations should be set on to beat one another into friendship, is too abominable even... 
