| 1881 - 604 Seiten
...of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven."— RICHARD. " I WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS TEN TIMES AND TEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE TERRIBLE THAN WAR— OUTRAGED NATURE. SHE KILLS AND KILLS, and is NEVER TIRED OP KILLING, TILL SHE HAS TAUGHT MAN THE TERRIBLE... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1860 - 400 Seiten
...and swords and red coats ; and because it costs a great deal of money, and makes a great deal of talk in the papers, we think, — What so terrible as war...finding that if you wish to commit an act of cruelty and folly, the most costly one that you can commit is to contrive to shoot your fellow-men in war.... | |
| 1885
...of praise should ascend, like a universal holocaust, to heaven." — RICHARD. IS MORE TERRIBLE THAN WAR?"— "I will tell you what is ten times, and ten ^ thousand times, more terrible than War— Outraged Nature. She Hi kills, and kills, and is never tired of killing till she has taught man the... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 526 Seiten
...the loss of human life in war. We are the fools of smoke and noise ; because there are cannonballs and gunpowder, and red coats, and because it costs...ten thousand times, more terrible than war, and that is—outraged nature. War, we are discovering now, is the clumsiest and most expensive of all games... | |
| Marcus Dods - 1879 - 192 Seiten
...more shocking than what actually occurs (see Defoe's Plague of London). Kingsley (Life, ii. 97) says : "What so terrible as war? I will tell you what is...ten thousand times, more terrible than war, and that is—outraged nature. Nature, insidious, inexpensive, silent, sends no roar of cannon, no glitter of... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 338 Seiten
...and swords and red coats ; and because it costs a great deal of money, and makes a great deal of talk in the papers, we think: What so terrible as war ?...finding that if you wish to commit an act of cruelty and folly, the most costly one that you can commit is to contrive to shoot your fellow-men in war.... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 322 Seiten
...and swords and red coats ; and because it costs a great deal of money, and makes a great deal of talk in the papers, we think : What so terrible as war...finding that if you wish to commit an act of cruelty and folly, the most costly one that you can commit is to contrive to shoot your fellow-men in war.... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 392 Seiten
...because it costs a great deal of money, and makes a great deal of noise in the papers, we think—What so terrible as war? I will tell you what is ten times,...ten thousand times, more terrible than war, and that is—outraged Nature Nature, insidious, inexpensive, silent, sends no roar of cannon, no glitter of... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1880 - 542 Seiten
...behaviour was supposed to be the necessary or highly probable result. P. POLLOCK. н° W < t T WILL toll you what is ten times, and TEN THOUSAND TIMES, more terrible than war,— Outraged Nature. •L She kills, and kills, and Is never tired of killing, till ske has taught uiun... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1881 - 592 Seiten
...of the loss of human life in war. We are the fools of smoke and noise; because there are cannonballs and gunpowder, and red coats, and because it costs...terrible than War, and that is — outraged Nature Nature, insidious, inexpensive, silent, sends no roar of cannon, no glitter of arms to do her work;... | |
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