Glimpses of Three NationsDodd, Mead, 1900 - 295 páginas |
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GLIMPSES OF 3 NATIONS G. W. (George Warrington) 186 Steevens,Vernon Blackburn Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
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Página 290 - It is idle to ignore it, but we need be neither furious nor panic-stricken. It is as much Germany's right to seek after the good things of the earth as it is ours. It is proper that we should be plain with ourselves and admit that for the time Germany is our chiefest rival in all fields.
Página 273 - But meet the man who talks this sort of language, and dresses in the nearest he can get to a covert -coat — and tell him he looks like an Englishman. In his heart he will rejoice, but he will pretend to be insulted.
Página 194 - ... lips jammed close together under a dark moustache pointing straight upward to the whites of his eyes. A face at once repulsive and pathetic, so harsh and stony was it, so grimly solemn. A face in which no individual feature was very dark, but which altogether was as black as thunder . . . He looked like a man without joy, without love, without pity, without hope.
Página 272 - Kaiser's telegram was the occasion, but the German clerk the real cause, of anti-German hatred, so with Germany the groundwork of dislike was the utter antipathy and repugnance with which the German regards our manners and national character. Both as a nation and as individuals the Germans detest us. True, they water their detestation with a sneaking admiration for our sports, our athletics, our clothes. In the German sporting papers you will meet such sentences as "Trainer Brown, wird die letzten...
Página 93 - You feel the breath of the morning on your face and its indefinable stirring in your blood — yes, even in Finsbury you feel it. People crowd in round every corner, from every opening as at a cue ; they might be the chorus filling up the stage of an opera. From Broad Street now as well as Liverpool Street, on foot, on bicycles, leaping down from the tail-boards of railway waggons, they come and come.
Página 105 - ... court instead of in a nineteenth-century capital. Outside there is everywhere space and light and air ; Paris has grown without cramping. You come on vast facades, whether of palaces or of private houses, all blending into a large effect, which is both light and stately — neither heavy, like the Quadrant, nor trumpery, like South Kensington.
Página 174 - Frenchmen do not want to rule — they want to live. The pursuit of life, of laughter, of charming sensations, of intelligent apprehensions, of individual development of character — it may all be more important, more vital to human existence than the preoccupation to rule oneself and others, to make laws and to fight.
Página 275 - But the point is that the external antipathy is a far more potent factor in national relations than the inner sympathy. Few experience the last; all can feel and resent the first. Therefore it is that an anti-English policy in Germany starts with a prodigiously strong leverage of national dislike. Now to hark back to the policy. " Our Kaiser," said one of my German friends, " is one of the greatest men of history.
Página 194 - He looked hkc a man who had never laughed, like a man who could never sleep. A man might wear such a face who felt himself turning slowly into ice.20 Hatte Burgess im Vorjahr Wilhelm II.