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... five years older or five years young- er never 12 THE REMARKABLE RIGHTNESS OF RUDYARD KIPLING INDEX BY TITLES Prose.
... five years older or five years young- er never 12 THE REMARKABLE RIGHTNESS OF RUDYARD KIPLING INDEX BY TITLES Prose.
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... Five Nations . I take The Five Nations purposely , for it is the Kipling of The Five Nations that I mean . Not the better known Kipling of the Barrack - Room Ballads or The Seven Seas . But supremely the Kipling I re- fer to . Two ...
... Five Nations . I take The Five Nations purposely , for it is the Kipling of The Five Nations that I mean . Not the better known Kipling of the Barrack - Room Ballads or The Seven Seas . But supremely the Kipling I re- fer to . Two ...
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... Five Nations . How many thou- sands of people felt that , in writing " The Islanders , ' Kipling had destroy- ed his own reputation ! Doubtless the Germans would have felt the same way about ' The Parting of the Columns ' ; though , if ...
... Five Nations . How many thou- sands of people felt that , in writing " The Islanders , ' Kipling had destroy- ed his own reputation ! Doubtless the Germans would have felt the same way about ' The Parting of the Columns ' ; though , if ...
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... Five Nations , since in much of The Five Nations he has pretty well expressed fundamental British feeling - as is now , day by day , being proved . And let us face it squarely - fundamental British feel- ing is on the whole the most ...
... Five Nations , since in much of The Five Nations he has pretty well expressed fundamental British feeling - as is now , day by day , being proved . And let us face it squarely - fundamental British feel- ing is on the whole the most ...
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... Five Nations . For Kipling has gone on very much , even since then . The Five Nations deals particularly with the Boer War and reactions after the Boer War . His more explicitly ' human ' wisdom is not to be found there in great- est ...
... Five Nations . For Kipling has gone on very much , even since then . The Five Nations deals particularly with the Boer War and reactions after the Boer War . His more explicitly ' human ' wisdom is not to be found there in great- est ...
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Page 23 - I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless; ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory? I triumph still, if thou abide with me.
Page 16 - So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic strike, And Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike — That deeper than our speech and thought, Beyond our reason's sway, Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay.
Page 312 - Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Page 147 - Committee consist of three members — two of whom must be the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War...
Page 19 - Once there was The People— Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth. Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain! Once there was The People— it shall never be again!
Page 752 - JERUSALEM, my happy home, •*• * When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 29 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 148 - In my opinion, whatever changes are made in the composition or functions of the War Committee the Prime Minister must be its Chairman. He cannot be relegated to the position of an arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet.
Page 309 - We're none of us the same!' the boys reply. 'For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind; 'Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die; 'And Bert's gone...
Page 541 - I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me ; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.