Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself
Its insistent principle that the life of the spirit and of the afterworld was superior to the here and now, to material life on earth, is one that the modern world does not share, no matter how devout...
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety.
Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; an...
Hausen himself, whose chief concern, second only to his reverence for titles, was a passionate attention to the amenities offered by each night’s billets, was equally annoyed. On August 27, his first...
Hausen himself could not get over the hostility of the Belgian people. To discover how we are hated was a constant amazement to him. He complained bitterly of the attitude of the D’Eggremont family in...
For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, history originated as myth and becomes a social memory to which men can appeal, knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions...
For his son-in-law the Pope suffered no further spasms of morality. Rather, judging from Burchard’s diary, the last inhibitions, if any, dropped away. Two months after Alfonso’s death, the Pope presid...
Disdain of the reserves was augmented by the new doctrine of the offensive which, it was felt, could only be properly inculcated in active troops. To perform the irresistible onslaught of the attaque...
Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to the point, to get action, to see what he wanted and let him have it. W...
Christine makes it her own in the prologue, where she sits weeping and ashamed, wondering why men are so unanimous in attributing wickedness to women and why we should be worse than men since we were...
Character is fate, the Greeks believed. A hundred years of German philosophy went into the making of this decision in which the seed of self-destruction lay embedded, waiting for its hour. The voice w...
Behind them, filling the roads that converged on Liège came the infantry of Emmich’s assault force, rank after rank. Only the red regimental number painted on helmet fronts broke the monotony of field...
As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition the Zionists were, Balfour decided, a great conservative force in world politics. Immediately
As early as August 24 Sukhomlinov, the War Minister who had not bothered to build arms factories because he did not believe in firepower, wrote General Yanushkevitch, the beardless Chief of Staff: In...
Although the mortality rate was erratic, ranging from one fifth in some places to nine tenths or almost total elimination in others, the overall estimate of modern demographers has settled—for the are...
Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although it had been defeated on its own soil by the F...
Alexander Guchkov, a subsequent Minister of War, testified that he reached the firm conviction that the war was lost after Tannenberg. The defeat gave new vigor to the pro-German groups who began open...
Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)