 It has been a splendid little war; begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune which loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all,...  Scribner's Magazine ... - Página 3791919Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 498 páginas
...the rest; I deplored your place in the Navy where you were so useful and so acceptable. But I knew it was idle to preach to a young man. You obeyed your...the distinguishing trait of the American character. A few months wrought great changes in the position of both correspondents. Colonel Roosevelt came back... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1920 - 556 páginas
...Bryce, author of the "American Commonwealth": AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON, July 27, 1898. Dear Roosevelt: I am afraid I am the last of your friends to congratulate...the distinguishing trait of the American character. Faithfully yours, JOHN HAY. HINDLEAP LODGE, FOREST Row, SUSSEX, September 12, 1898. My dear Roosevelt:... | |
 | Paul C. Nagel - 1971 - 398 páginas
..."keen pursuit of material gain" had not destroyed her spirit. Thus, Hay could tell Theodore Roosevelt: "It has been a splendid little war; begun with the...spirit, favored by that Fortune which loves the brave." 28 Walt Whitman, on the other hand, had begun earlier than Hay to seek a new American meaning. This... | |
 | James J. Hennesey - 1983 - 418 páginas
...August 1898 signaled the debut of the United States as a world power. For diplomat John Hay, it was "a splendid little war; begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnficent intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave."1 His spirit was... | |
 | Juan R. Torruella - 1985 - 354 páginas
...Ambassador John Hays wrote Roosevelt after the war ended: "It has been a splendid little war; begur with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent...favored by that fortune which loves the brave..." Thomas, p. 404. The Spanish- American War of 1898 and its aftermath Spanish-American hostilities started... | |
 | Nell Irvin Painter - 1989 - 458 páginas
...for what John Hay, author of The Bread-Winners and United States ambassador to Great Britain, called "a splendid little war; begun with the highest motives,...spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave." The war itself was amazingly brief — declared in April, over in August — a few campaigns in Cuba... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - 1993 - 596 páginas
...April 25, making the declaration retroactive to April 21. The American ambassador to Britain thought it "a splendid little war . . . begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnif1cent intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave." Little it was,... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 páginas
...in terms of casualties. At the end of the conflict, John Hay, US Ambassador to Great Britain, wrote, "It has been a splendid little war; begun with the...and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave."1 Historians have tended to treat the war as a sort of youthful fling, a lost weekend of American... | |
 | Richard Drinnon - 1997 - 614 páginas
...the conflict its memorable name. "It has been a splendid little war," he wrote Theodore Roosevelt; "begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent...spirit, favored by that Fortune which loves the brave" (WRT, II, 337). Now, these "highest motives" for intervening in Spanish Cuba resembled those John Quincy... | |
 | John V. Denson - 570 páginas
...in terms of casualties. At the end of the conflict, John Hay, US Ambassador to Great Britain, wrote, "It has been a splendid little war; begun with the...spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave." J Historians have tended to treat the war as a sort of youthful fling, a lost weekend of American history,... | |
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