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Palavras e frases frequentes
Admiral Allies American Anne Dudley army authorities Balkan battle became Bismarck Boer Bohemia Bolsheviki Bolshevist Botha British Bulgaria called career Clemenceau command conference Crete declared democratic developed electrical Eliot Empire England Europe fact faction father Ferdinand Foch fight Foch force Ford fought France Frederic French friends Georges Clemenceau German Greece Greek hand human ideals Imperial industrial interest Kaiser Kerensky knew land later leaders League of Nations Lenin living Lloyd George Lord machine Marconi Margaret Fuller Masaryk Menshevism ment military mind Minister nation never Orville Paris party Pasteur peace peasants political President Prince problem Provisional Government Revolution revolutionary Roosevelt Russia Serbia Smuts social Socialist soldiers South Africa Soviet regime Steinmetz struggle success Theodore Roosevelt things tion took treaty troops Trotzky Turkey United Venizelos victory whole William William II women Woodrow Wilson young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 183 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 19 - John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.
Página 19 - mongst the rest they placed the arts divine. But this weak knot they will full soon untie, The Greeks did nought, but play the fools and lie. Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are Men have precedency and still excel, It is but vain unjustly to wage war; Men can do best, and women know it well.
Página 19 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong; For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Página 153 - While we were standing about discussing this last flight, a sudden strong gust of wind struck the machine and began to turn it over. Everybody made a rush for it.
Página 247 - The result of that struggle we leave in God's hand. Perhaps it is His will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation, yea, even through the valley of the shadow of death, to a better future and a brighter day.
Página 153 - After long arguments, we often found ourselves in the ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other's side, with no more agreement than when the discussion began. It was not till several months had passed, and every phase of the problem had been thrashed over and over, that the various reactions began to untangle themselves.
Página 153 - This flight lasted only 12 seconds but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own •power into the air in full flight' had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.
Página 153 - As a result, the machine would rise suddenly to about ten feet and then as suddenly dart for the ground. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Página 19 - So with a sudden effort I sprang out of bed and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.