During all these tragic years the nations of the world have moved on to discovery, subjugation, and conquest.
During my life from my early days I have fought the other nations before the white man ever stepped into this country, then the Great Father ordered that we should stop fighting and live in peace.
It was an oratory that enabled a few scattering tribes to withstand the aggressions of four great nations of the world for a period of several centuries, and to successfully withstand the tramping columns of civilization.
In the League of Nations a purged and democratic Germany may have a station, but there is no redemption for a Judas on the sea.
Other nations came on the free seas, secure in the peace our arms had wrought, and entered the lists against us.
There were no bounds to the nations and their continents outside of seven or ten fathoms of blue water.
Other nations were stirring and striving to a naval strength and power, drawing aid and personnel from their mercantile services.
He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work with presents, observing that the Eddystone Lighthouse was so situated as to be of equal service to all nations having occasion to navigate the Channel.
He has given to the annals of war its most desperate and bloody conflicts; he has perished that nations might live, and that a people might be free.
Murder, lust, and pillage prevailed over many parts of Belgium on a scale unparalleled in any war between civilised nations during the last three centuries.
The twonations were in an uneasy alliance, with several other nations combining against them, when the Nemesis and the Space Scourge returned and declared peace against the whole planet.
Very few among us have as yet realized this extreme case as the nations of the Old World have done a thousand times.
The nations of Europe are waiting for the crisis of the fever to be passed before they intervene.
I have known among them heroes and heroines, as in all nations such, whether apparent to the world or not, are never wanting.
If it is better supplied than the stalls of some nations in the same market, it is, in its turn, inferior to those of others.
Alike from the Roman colonies, and from those founded by the European nations in the course of the last few centuries, the Greek colonies are distinguished by a fundamental contrast.
For a long time the two nations dwelt side by side without either displacing the other.
In 1084 also Greece was subjected to the first attack from the new nations of the west, when the Sicilian Normans gained a footing in the Ionian islands.
The Greeks, like the other nations liberated from Turkish rule, are somewhat litigious, and numbers of lawyers find occupation even in the smaller country towns.
But all nations have not excelled in the same way: some have found their best expression in architecture, some in music, some in poetry.
It was through the ascendancy which Greek literature, philosophy and art acquired over the Roman mind that Greek culture penetrated to the nations of western Europe.
Both were fought by "nations in arms," by citizen soldiers who had their hearts in the struggle, and could be trusted not only to fight their hardest but to march their best.
It was probably in this character that he was honoured on a site which the Romans looked upon as "the key of Etruria," while other nations naturally regarded it as "the key of Rome.
The object of the college is the education of youths of all nations as missionaries.
For these nations of hunters and fishers, the animal constituted an essential element of the economic environment.
The two phratries, he says elsewhere, are like two foreign nations in their relations to each other.
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The only difference that I can discern is that by the law and custom of nations private property cannot be appropriated on land, whereas at sea it can.
Between two separate, sovereign, independentnations a state of war arises in this wise.
The real job of the railroad recently has been laid overseas in the nations that are fighting so bitterly for mastery.
Other nations have had to build railroads with a particular relation to military strategy.
Democracy is girding himself once more like a strong man to run a race; and slumbering nations are arising in their might, and 'shaking their invincible locks.
When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Switzerland champions the right of the nations and champions democratic thought, as against imperialism, which is, fundamentally, an aristocratic reaction.
The world hungers for a voice which will overleap the frontiers of nations and of classes.
Among these I may mention my article, To the Murdered Nations (Chapter III, above) from which the censorship deleted one hundred lines.
Let us remind them that in all the nations there have been and still are great men, fine spirits.
Thus amid the warfare of the nations are being laid the foundations of spiritual peace between the nations, like a lighthouse which reveals to widely separated vessels the distant haven where they will anchor side by side.
The actual words in my play are: "The nations die that God may live.
The losses of the Church in Europe were more than counterbalanced by her gains among the new nations of America, whose fervour and faith formed a striking contrast to the frenzy and irreligion of the sophists of Germany.
Ten nations were represented, including all the belligerents.
The war has produced in the public opinion of the nations a state of mind which formerly would not have been regarded as possible in our age of internationalism and intellectuality.
The frightful senselessness of it was apparent when the enemies of two nations fighting to the death stood in the grey mist together and liked each other.
We were only sorry that we could not do far, far more, but if even this little is a seed of corn which may in the future bring forth thoughts of reconciliation between the nations we shall be happy.
It will be a great help to our work and will be conscientiously used for British subjects and for the subjects of nations allied with England.
The truth is, the prisoner’s lot is always hard, and all nations have at times made it a terrible one.
He has implored the writers of all nations not to join with their pens in destroying the future of Europe.
Now, to my sorrow, I am forced to confess that the nations do not yet incline towards peace, and to my regret I have to state that Germany’s resources at the present drain will last another four or five years.
Belligerent nations manage to convince themselves that by suppression of disconcerting evidence one arrives at truth.
They are to go and baptize all nationsin the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
So different nations and generations should be left to make their systems as of old, only a new truth was declared, and a new force was set to work, which systems would henceforth have to take into account.
In America many of us continued to hope that some way might be found to bring the representatives of the warring nations into a conference, thereby removing misunderstanding and misconception and paving the way for an early peace.
It has given me the greatest pleasure and encouragement, and I want to take the opportunity to say how valuable in every way your own support of and enthusiasm for the League of Nations has been.
President Butler: May it be in America's fortunate lot to bind up the wounds of the war and to set the feet of her sisternations once more in the paths of peace, international good-will and constructive statesmanship.
I replied that it was much more comprehensive and forceful than I had believed it possible for the nationspreliminarily to agree upon.
I told him plainly that Colonel House had said to me that afternoon that "the League of Nations was on the rocks.
The representatives of the thirty nations were seated as before.
I expressed the opinion that as the leading nations of Europe were familiar with the idea it was not likely to meet with any serious objections.
Writers on the Law of Nations have in fact led us into a Fool’s Paradise about war (which has done more than anything else to keep the custom in existence), by representing it as something quite mild and almost refined in modern times.
It is absolutely contrary to the law of nations to make bad war, and to shoot shells at the enemy, who must always be fought according to the rules of honour, with the arms generally employed by polite nations.
Grotius, after quoting the fact that a decree of the Amphictyons forbade the destruction of any Greek city in war, asserts the existence of a stronger bond between the nations of Christendom than between the states of ancient Greece.
And it certainly seems that whereas all the military codes of modern nations contain articles dealing with that offence, and decreeing penalties against it, there was less of it in the days before compulsory service.
The renunciations of each Power redound to the benefit of each and all; nor can the gain of the world involve any real loss for the several nationsthat compose it.
It can hardly be said to have understood at all the rights or duties of nations to one another, or indeed to have had any moral principle except patriotism and obedience to commanders.
Compared with that of most European nations in the last century his penal code, though sometimes capricious, is reasonable and humane.
And the only way of meeting the difficulty seems to be by modern nations subdividing themselves into small bodies having local knowledge and acting together in the spirit of ancient communities (compare Arist.
Give us arms, and we send all these nations flying before us.
The Aryan nations had no Devil," this certainly cannot at present be affirmed of that branch of the Celtic race which inhabits Wales.
Just as uncivilized nations acknowledge the superiority of Europeans in medicine, so did the Fairies resort in perplexing cases to man for aid.
The ancient Northern nations believed that he had the form of a horse; and the same opinion is still held by the vulgar in Iceland.
These medals have been presented by many different nations whose sea-farers have been saved by him.
He bequeathed all his works to the nation, and these now form the famous Thorvaldsen Museum, which attracts the artistic-loving people of all nations to the city of Copenhagen.
In olden times Denmark exacted toll from these passing ships, which the nations found irksome, but the Danes most profitable.
Thus Philip, having checked the proceedings of those two nations by these well-timed expeditions, gained reparation for the damages sustained from the operations of the Romans; the enterprise being as spirited as the issue was successful.
After hearing the message of the ambassadors, directing him to collect as great a number of troops as possible, he immediately held a council of the Gauls and Ligurians, for a great number of both those nations were there.
Accordingly, when the spoils were torn down from vanquished Carthage, when you beheld her left unarmed and defenceless amid so many armed nations of Africa, none heaved a sigh.
The senate replied to the Saguntines, "that the destruction and restoration of Saguntum would form a monument to all the nations of the world of social faith preserved on both sides.
Still, though he had victory in a manner within his grasp, he would not refuse all accommodation, that all the nations of the world may know that the Roman people both undertake and conclude wars with justice.
Few beyond that circle of hills knew that she, whom the nations praised far off, lay dead that Easter mooring.
Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Its very presence, as a believed Book, has rendered thenations emphatically a chosen race, and this too in exact proportion as it is more or less generally known and studied.
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