The physical suffering of the disease and its aspect of evil mystery were expressed in a strange Welsh lament which saw death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young,...
The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.
The Germans were obsessively concerned about violations of international law. They succeeded in overlooking the violation created by their presence in Belgium in favor of the violation committed, as t...
The French right wing, opening the offensive into German-occupied Lorraine, took an old embattled path like so many in France and Belgium where, century after century, whatever the power that makes me...
Stimulated by the enemy’s presence on the Loire in the center of France, the nobles responded to the summons, whatever their sentiments toward the King. They came from Auvergne, Berry, Burgundy, Lorra...
Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan. But the lure of the left wing remained to tempt his successors.
Individual admirals and captains made their fortunes from their share of prize money, which was divided according to prize law of an extreme complexity that testified to its importance in the system....
In the school building taken over by GQG, an unbridgeable gulf separated Operations, the Troisième Bureau, which occupied the class rooms, from Intelligence, the Deuxième Bureau, which was installed i...
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! lamented Samuel Coleridge. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern whic...
I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but simply an acute awareness of what I have not included. The faces and voices of all t...
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end death is seen seated on the face.
Called the Golden Rock for the flood of commerce that flowed through its free port, stuffing its warehouses with goods for trade and the coffers of its merchants with the proceeds, it was different fr...
As time went on and victory went glimmering, the desire to carry the fleet safe and sound through the war for bargaining purposes at the peace table became even more embedded.
The Pope replied, What can you preach to the people? If on humility, you yourselves are the proudest of the world, puffed up, pompous and sumptuous in luxuries. If on poverty, you are so covetous that...
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This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Sae...
They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernme...