When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we ho...pe to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of war they suddenly find themselves l...iving under conditions of violence, requiring new rules of conduct that are in direct contrast to the conditions they lived under as civilians. They learn to accept this to perform their duties as fighting men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed t...o me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy ...home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family's heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods, Not terrible, though terror be in love,... And beauty, not approached by stronger hate, Hate stronger under show of love well feigned-- The way which to her ruin now I tend."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custer's dead and around the bloody guidon of the immortal Seventh Cavalry lie 212 officers of the main. Sioux and Cheyenne are on... the war path. By military telegraph news of the Custer massacre is flashed across the long, long miles to the southwest. By stagecoach to the hundred settlements and the thousand farms standing under threat of Indian uprising. Pony Express riders know that one more such defeat as Custer's and it would be 100 years before another wagon train dared to cross the plain. And from the Canadian border to the Rio Bravo 10,000 Indians--Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, and Apache under Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, Gaul, and Crow King--are uniting in a common war against the United States cavalry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- For Brutus is an honorable man;... So are they all, all honorable men - Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense o...f advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was... obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favor...able angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »