Ordeal by BattleMacmillan, 1915 - 437 sider |
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Agadir Agadir crisis Allies Ambassador APOLLYON appeared armaments Austria Balkan BATTLE Belgium believe Berlin bility Bismarck Britain British Army British Empire British policy causes CHAPTER character CHRISTIAN clear confidence conscription danger defence democracy dream duty enemy England Europe fact favourable fighting Foreign France French German policy Government hand honour Hugh Dawnay human ideas ill-will Imperial industrial inevitable interest John Gough Kaiser less Liberal Lord Haldane Lord Kitchener Lord Roberts matter ment merely military mind Minister miscalcula moral National Service nature naval neutrality never officers ORDEAL party peace period political politicians popular PREFACE present priesthood principles public opinion race realised reason recruiting regard responsi revolu Roberts's Russia Servia Sir Edward Grey soldiers spirit stand statesmen Territorial Army territories things tions Triple Entente true truth Unionists United Kingdom victory Vienna voluntary system wanted warnings White Paper whole
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Side 19 - Government was terrible to a degree ; just for a word — " neutrality," a word which in war time had so often been disregarded — just for a scrap of paper Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Side 422 - Its leading axiom is there stated by boldly claiming that a war conducted with energy cannot be directed merely against the combatants of the enemy State and the positions they occupy, but it will and must in like manner seek to destroy the total intellectual and material resources of the latter. Humanitarian claims, such as the protection of men and their goods, can only be taken into consideration in so far as the nature and object of the war permit.
Side 242 - The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
Side 49 - The man is not of god-like physiognomy, any more than of imposing stature or costume ; close-shut mouth with thin lips, prominent jaws and nose, receding brow, by no means of Olympian height ; head, however, is of long form, and has superlative grey eyes in it.
Side lii - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy ! when I fall I shall arise ; " and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which made him give back, as one that had received his mortal wound; Christian, perceiving that, made at him again, saying, " Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Side lii - Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, I am sure of thee now; and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life.
Side 341 - There is nothing ambiguous or equivocal about that. ["Hear, hear!"] But that was not enough for German statesmanship. They wanted us to go further. They asked us to pledge ourselves absolutely to neutrality in the event of Germany being engaged in war, and this, mind you, at a time when Germany was enormously increasing both her aggressive and defensive resources, and especially upon the sea. They asked us, to put it quite plainly...
Side lii - Christian draw, for he saw it was time to bestir him: and Apollyon as fast made at him, throwing darts as thick as hail; by the which, notwithstanding all that Christian could do to avoid it, Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand, and foot.
Side 48 - He is a King every inch of him, though without the trappings of a King. Presents himself in a Spartan simplicity of vesture: no crown but an old military cocked-hat, — generally old, or trampled and kneaded into absolute softness, if new; — no sceptre but one like Agamemnon's, a walking-stick cut from the woods, which serves also as a riding-stick (with which he hits the horse ' between the ears,
Side 48 - Spanish snuff on the breast of it ; rest of the apparel dim, unobtrusive in colour or cut, ending in high over-knee military boots, which may be brushed (and, I hope, kept soft with an underhand suspicion of oil), but are not permitted to be blackened or varnished ; Day and Martin with their soot-pots forbidden to approach. The...