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...e Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life and young men's early deaths struck a chord with English readers and the book became a bestseller. Later, World War I further increased its popularity.(Summary from...

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... but was not impressed. Even in the months after May 1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat... ...nglish history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on ... ...menian calls for autonomy were deemed a danger to the disintegrating realm, now at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied ... ...in Van province, Mussa Dagh, Shabin Karahisar and Urfa - as well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian popu... ...s collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second world war - though he conveniently switch allegiances to ... ...of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's seven kings (said to have ruled 715-673 BC). St... ... assassinated in 1948. He was not a pacifist. Nor was he anti-British. When the Boer war broke out, he organized a volunteer corps of 11,000 Ind...

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...petition of historical events or their analogy is often accompanied by high correlations between names of participants or places of battles (e.g. the Boer War and the Boxers' Revolt)....

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...lance by some examples. The resemblance between the names of (Aimé-Joseph) Darnand, head of the French Militia during the German occupation in World War II, and of the admiral (Jean Louis Xavier François) Darlan, commander of the army, navy and air force during the same period, is evident – except the correlation of 5/6, their first three letters are the same and the orde...

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...ARF ARF ARF ARF ARFARE ARE ARE ARE ARE THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME of Little War, as we know it, became possible with the invention of the spring breech... ...er elegant weapon. It was with one of these guns that the beginning of our war game was made. It was at Sandgate—in England. The present writer had be... ...t in to represent great rocks, and the “Country” at least of our perfected war game was in existence. We dis- covered it was easy to cut out and bend ... ... stop- watch if we can, and if we cannot, we use a fair-sized clock with a second-hand: the player not moving says “Go,” and warns at the last two min... ...says “Go,” and warns at the last two minutes, last minute, and last thirty seconds. But I think it would not be difficult to procure a cheap clock—bec... ...subsequent move as if they touched the back line at its nearest point. The Second Player shall then do the same. But if a curtain is available both fi... ...ry and no guns, or 60 in- fantry, 40 cavalry, and 3 guns. In the result, a Boer-like cav- alry force of 80 with 3 guns suffered defeat at the hands of...

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................................................................... ......15 The Second Major Split........................................................ ... Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginning... ...p of Connections and Separations. These Connections and Separations were the second Linear Dualities to be created by the Path of Splitness. The fi... ... simple and organically complex. It did many things simultaneously. The Second Major Split The 1 st linear Dimension of Length that had be... ...and attacked and killed by the pack animals that arrived in such numbers that war broke out. It saved them from the chaos of fighting over a kill. ... ...that slit finally reached the surface of Africa to create the Rift Valley. War is created by breaking the peace. When was the first peace broken?... ... Yet it invented the first concentration Death camps for civilians during the Boer War. Examine the effect of Britain on the rest of the World a... ... leave? The white supremacist Nation of South Africa: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created ... ... token revolt happened in South Africa by the South African Blacks against the Boer Racist, Apartheid Regime. Now there is no Apartheid. But the po...

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...he auxiliary com- mittee, composed of M. Brown, Bradley, Ford, Soutbworth, War- ren and Wight, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing th... ...for some time his paintings bore a somewhat gloomy aspeot, but af- ter his second marriage, light again brightened his vCosks until a change of circum... ... and St N. H. Sanford's news room. Entered at Willisnistown post-ofiice as second class matter. The Excelsior Printing Company North Adams, Mass. .M.4... ...cas Confectionery J. F. Haifa, Prop. Calerins'tfor All Social Occasions 12 Second Street, Troy, N. Y. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Offers Metropolitan Advantages... ...chet. " Mein- Ixirs of the underclasses, I am now to bury the hatchet of a war which was more of strategy and words than of strife and bloodshed. Cons... ...l at Farmer, N. Y'. and then studied law in Auburn, N. Y. During tho Civil War he was clerk in the otiico of the Provost Marsiial of Ilia district and... ...with the workings of their own minds than with those of men wounded in the Boer war. It fol- lows directly that they can write more sincerely of Willi...

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ne in which I had met General Joffre a few days before. I gave my hat to a second body- guard, and as I did so a pleasantly smiling man appeared at th... ...t on his mind: “If A’hm looky.” Followed a little silence. Then I tried my second stock re- mark for such cases. One does not talk to soldiers at the ... ...istory of colossal stupidities. Among the most decisive of these blunders, second only perhaps of the blunder of the V erdun attack and far outshining... ...military people, who are not accustomed to read books or talk shop, in the Boer war. In the thinly populated war region of South Africa the difficulti... ...ies of forc- ing entrenched positions were largely met by outflanking, the Boers had only a limited amount of barbed wire and could be held down in th... ... to entrench, and that the French and British had learnt the lesson of the Boer war better than the Germans. I trusted to the melodramatic in- stinct ...

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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PR... ...van- ished out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shop... ...ing out into a negligent and incredulous world. But before he had made his second circuit of the Crystal Palace towers, Fame was lifting her trumpet, ... ...ublished portraits insisted primarily upon an immense black moustache, and secondarily upon a fierceness behind the moustache. The general impression ... ... Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the Boer war, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of ... ...except one small pom- pom (to use the old English nickname dating from the Boer war), which was forward in the gallery upon the shield at the heart of...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...or even the most obvious implications of such an idea, but there is also a second invincible difficulty—that there is nowhere in the world anybody, an... ...e world in vain. There are more ways than one to the World State, and this second possibility of a post-war conference and a conference of the Allies,... ...the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer War. His case was that war between antagonists of fairly equal equipme... ...ans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary lines, the Germans would never have got fifty mile...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war ...

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... CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...broken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany we... ...concrete realization of that? But first let me note the fourth word in the second title of this book. The common talk is of a “League of Nations” mere... ... is a matter of more or less, of getting the best thing at the cost of the second-best. We may want to relax an old association in order to make a new... ...marily. Steel output, university graduates, and so forth may be convenient secondary criteria, may be useful ways of measuring war efficiency, but the... ...n proposals af- fecting native labour that win over the Portuguese and the Boers? There are a score of such points upon which we shall find the Allied...

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...t to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second great difference in kind be- tween my world and Machiavelli’s. We ar... ... ever. 10 The New Machiavelli CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND BR BR BR BR BROMSTEAD AN... ... legs and sent them by pin hooks along 14 The New Machiavelli a wire to a second slaughterman with a chipped foot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I re... ... Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Napier’s expedi- tion to Abyssinia I read from end to end; S... ... admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of our own at Britten’s ho... ...y. Hatherleigh tried hard to saddle the Semitic race with the less elegant war customs of the Soudan and the northwest frontier of India, and quoted D... ...iness and method went out of fashion alto- gether! The dirty retrogressive Boer vanished from our scheme of illusion. All through my middle Cambridge ... ... of some great constructive movement coming from the heart- searchings the Boer war had occasioned. We would sink to gossip—even at the Suetonius leve... ...e had won for him from the toiling people in the potteries. The end of the Boer War was so recent that that blessed word “efficiency” echoed still in ...

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...he great terrace and the park. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE THE THE TH... ...r was different. Princhester made one think that recently there had been a second and much more serious Fall. Princhester was industrial and unashamed... ...It. Encourages them to forget duties and set up preposterous claims. Class war and all that sort of thing. You gentlemen of the clergy don’t quite rea... ...lism may begin with Ruskin and end with Karl Marx. And that from the Class War to the Commune is just one step.” 5 5 5 5 5 From this conversation the ... ...ital patients, on his way through the industry-scarred countryside to this second conversation. 21 H G Wells The countryside had never seemed so scar... ...ders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war upon the mind of the bishop, as ... ...uthward until they saw the Af- ricanders riding down to Windhuk. T wo men, Boer farmers both, rode side by side and talked of the German officer they ... ...oopers, school-board boys and Norwegian fishermen, half-trained nurses and Boer farm- ers are full of the spirit of God, see how the priests of the ch...

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...ome sweethearts before we were eighteen years old. My mother and hers were second cousins and old schoolfellows, and though my mother had been widowed... ...h obsolete inadequate formulae, it was tortuous to a maze-like degree with secondary contrivances and adaptations, sup- pressions, conventions, and su... ...me again,” but for the rest, Frobisher might fail me. That, however, was a secondary issue. The predominant affair was with Nettie. I found my mind th... ...ing to say to me, “Dear, I know it’s hard—but revolt is harder. Don’t make war on it, dear—don’t! Don’t do anything to offend it. I’m sure it will hur... ...ittle gramophone… . It is only on Monday I find, and buried deep below the war news, that these publications contain any intimation that unusual happe... ...der interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irrational phenomena of the former time, war was ... ...ad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head —they could h...

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...t on her acquaintance, my wife inquired further about this William. “He is second porter at Maynard’s, the draper’s,” said Jane, “and gets eighteen sh... ...ll buy something good unawares. That may be it.” He passed his cup for his second cupful of coffee. 35 H.G . Wells “Are these the things collected by... ...ly. There was music aboard. I stood up and shouted and screamed at it. The second day I broached one of the AEpyornis eggs, scraped the shell away at ... ...s if inadvertently, Pawkins’ revision as a “miracle of ineptitude.” It was war to the knife. However, it would scarcely interest the reader to detail ... ...he split between them widened until from the Microlepidoptera they were at war upon every open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions.... ...tilences that are foreshadowed by these fiery signs in the Heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portugue... ...t a private man.’ “‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But have you thought?—this talk of war, these reckless challenges, these wild aggressions—’ “I stood up. “‘No,...

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...nt the heroes of the ancient Germanic Legend. *A is a parchment MS. of the second half of the thirteenth century, now found in Munich. It forms the ba... ... the 9 The Nibelungenlied adventures of Siegfried and his tragic end. The second source of the Siegfried story is the so-called “V olsungasaga”, a pr... ... related in great detail and his ancestry traced back to Wodan. Although a secondary source, as it is based on the “Edda,” the Volsungasaga is neverth... ...re. Brynhild consents with great reluctance, for she is busy carrying on a war with a neighboring king. Sigurd then passes three nights at her side, p... ...he legend beyond the heroic stage. The best exponent of this view is R. C. Boer, who has made a remarkable attempt to resolve the 17 The Nibelungenli... ...- neous combination, a mythical legend grafted on a purely human one. This Boer thinks unlikely, and presents a num- ber of arguments to disprove the ... ...d causes the death of her relatives, in order to avenge her first husband. Boer is of the opinion that both the Norse and the German versions have for... ...s doth stand in lust of battle, the daring man! Let us go down to meet the war- rior.” “That ye may do with honor,” spake then Hagen; “he is of noble ... ...nsel. Then spake Queen Uta’s son: “Ye shall be welcome to us with all your war-mates, who are come with you. We shall gladly serve you, I and all my k...

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...a. Mr . Carey stood up slowly and shook hands with the little boy. Then on second thoughts he bent down and kissed his forehead. He was a man of somew... ...e fires all over the place. If they wanted all them fires they must keep a second girl. In the winter Mr. and Mrs. Carey lived in the dining-room so t... ... see he’s been very badly brought up. He wants licking into shape.” On the second Sunday after Philip arrived an unlucky incident occurred. Mr . Carey... ...atrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity.... ...re had got into his bones, ruling a small cenacle with a savage tongue, at war with himself and the world, producing little in his increasing passion ... ...tor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o’-war: the pageant of English history , and romance, and high adven- ture. Ph... ... saw that his shares had fallen to two; but Macalister was optimistic, the Boers couldn’t hold out much longer , and he was will- 623 W. Somerset Mau... ...oo great for him to pocket. For two or three weeks nothing hap- pened; the Boers would not understand that they were beaten and nothing remained for t...

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...as at school I heard first of the Door in the Wall—that I was to hear of a second time only a month before his death. T o him at least the Door in the... ...rden, that wonderful garden, wasn’t a dream!” … . He paused. “I suppose my second experience with the green door marks the world of difference there i... ...busy life of a schoolboy and the infinite leisure of a child. Anyhow, this second time I didn’t for a moment think of going in straight away. You see ... ...tilences that are foreshadowed by these fiery signs in the Heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast Negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portugue... ...t a private man.’ “‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But have you thought?—this talk of war, these reckless challenges, these wild aggressions—’ “I stood up. “‘No,... ...ty of persistence. He looked from me to where the lady sat regarding us. “‘War,’ he said, as if he were speaking to himself, and then turned slowly fr... ...they must settle with him themselves.’ “She looked at me doubtfully. “‘But war—’ she said. “I saw a doubt on her face that I had seen before, a doubt ...

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...do not for one moment suggest. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE EXP THE EXP THE EXP ... ...a growth curve out of Georgina Phyllis— you know—and how I’m to give him a second dose—” “Need you?” “He’s been crying two days—can’t get on with his ... ...ing against the light. He says it turned on him. At any rate, he fired his second barrel at less than twenty yards and threw down his gun, ran a pace ... ...the directions of the drill book that had been partially revised after the Boer War. Then whack! into a tunnel, and then into Sandling Junction, which... ...irections of the drill book that had been partially revised after the Boer War. Then whack! into a tunnel, and then into Sandling Junction, which was ... ...me sort came into all their minds— a vision of little people coming out to war, in a flood, the little people, inexhaustible, incessant, malignant…. “... ...erent from us. For us, assuredly, the conflict comes…. The thing they call War. We know it. In a way we prepare for it. But you know— those little peo...

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...ffy little shop-walker would have come into view, looked at the bill for a second, very hard (showing you a parting down the middle of his head mean- ... ...etal. Decidedly it was a machine with a past. Mr. Hoopdriver had bought it second-hand from Hare’s in Putney, and Hare said it had had several owners.... ...econd-hand from Hare’s in Putney, and Hare said it had had several owners. Second- hand was scarcely the word for it, and Elare was mildly puzzled tha... ...e chap, you know, that we had this ostrich farm.” “Did you have Blacks and Boers about you?” “Lots,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, striking a match on his in- ... ...uth— Charles had fled. He, Hoopdriver, had fought and, by all the rules of war, had won. “That was a pretty cut under the jaw you gave him,” the tooth...

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... so doing paints a very vivid picture of the past in a style reminiscent of all that is finest in the children’s story-telling tradition. This is the second section of that work and will carry you from the convoluted and bloody ‘Wars of the Roses’ up to the death of Queen Victoria and the resolution of the Boer War. Please be advised that this book was written in the early...

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...4 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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.... . . . . 354 The Strength of the Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 The M... ...d, “and the tribe only a quarter of an hour behind. But that saved us; for the second run broke the jam above and shut them out. When they finally got ... ...as evident that they were angry — first, at the way they had been deceived; and second, at the outraged ethics of the Northland, where honesty, above a... ...ow in the traces, broke out the sled with the gee pole. Ruth followed with the second team, leaving Malemute Kid, who had helped her start, to bring u... ...ent away on the wind. “The people said it was good, for there would be no more war of the bloods in Akatan; but I said never a word, waiting till the ... ...n us a schooner, with close in her wake the cloudy funnels of a Russian man of war. We fled away on the beam of the wind, with the schooner jamming sti... ...he signalized himself by beating up a young English man already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips. Then it was that Mr. Haveby sent Bunster...

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...tances. That is the first and gravest intimation in M. Blériot’s feat. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military... ...ce, and mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-luck... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ..., has never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. Since then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the trad... ... never really slumbered again since the chastening experiences of the Boer War. Since then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- ti... ...- ments, to a renewed and increased predominance, or is she falling into a secondary position among the peoples of the world? The answer to that depen... ...nd I am deeply impressed, not indeed by any effect of lethargy, but by the second-rate quality and the shortness and weakness of aim in very much that... ...ean of our resources in money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope f... ...ns is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact that barbed wire...

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...sts are, Or buffet a path through the Pit’s red wrath when God goes out to war, Or hang with the reckless Seraphim on the rein of a red-maned star. K... ...whenever you’re inclined. We took our chanst among the Khyber ‘ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman give us Irriwaddy chills, An... ...r a thundering drink and blacking the Corporal’s eye. With a second-hand overcoat under my head, And a beautiful view of the yard, ... ...as soon as I’m in with a mate and gin, I know I’ll do it again! With a second-hand overcoat under my head, And a beautiful view of the yard, ... ...a batt’ry of the corps Which is first among the women an’ amazin’ first in war; An’ what the bloomin’ battle was I don’t remember now, But Two’s off-l... ...g with laughter called the Herald of the King. Kipling 74 It was upon the second night, the night of Ramazan, The watcher leaning earthward heard the... ... Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a ... ...the stillness to yelp at the English Flag! Must we borrow a clout from the Boer — to plaster anew with dirt? An Irish liar’s bandage, or an English co...

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.......................................................................... 53 Second Series (1896) ......................................................... ...whenever you’re inclined. We took our chanst among the Khyber ‘ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman give us Irriwaddy chills, An... ...r a thundering drink and blacking the Corporal’s eye. With a second-hand overcoat under my head, And a beautiful view of the yard, ... ...as soon as I’m in with a mate and gin, I know I’ll do it again! With a second-hand overcoat under my head, And a beautiful view of the yard, ... ...a batt’ry of the corps Which is first among the women an’ amazin’ first in war; An’ what the bloomin’ battle was I don’t remember now, But Two’s off-l... ...he way o’ slugs an’ spears- Ain’t yer, Bobs? What ‘e does not Know o’ war, Gen’ral Bobs, You can arst the shop next door- 56 Barrack-Room Ba... ... spittin’ into the Ditch aboard o’ the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o’-war got up in the Reg’lars’ style. 62 Barrack-Room Ballads ‘E was scrapin’...

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...thing of our time and of our lives from those misunderstandings, and those secondary differences of no practical importance what- ever, which make suc... ...ve, and a third period in which, arising amidst the warmth and stir of the second, interweaving in- deed with the second, the care and love of offspri... ...e, but then so would rebellion against these things be also irrelevant and secondary. T o sub- mit or to rebel is a diversion of our energies from the... ... for example, the parent talks constantly of the contemptible dirtiness of Boers and foreigners, and of the extreme beauty of cleanliness and— even ob... ...d training “gentlemen.” When they met them socially no doubt was meant; in war the disadvantage might prove the other way about. 157 H G Wells the st... ...races are making our struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a guerilla war in factory and farm, cruelty and violence peep from every slum, barbari...

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...black Pa- dre for a guide, and a Spaniard who had served in the Peninsular war as an interpreter, we visited a collection of buildings, of which an an... ... sensation, similar to that produced by the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war. I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of... ...enery of this noble bay, because, in our homeward voyage, we called here a second time, and I shall then have occasion to remark on it. Along the whol... ...gular and rapid move- ment, to contract itself, so that in the course of a second the whole was united into a perfect little sphere, which occupied th... ... half again its natural size; and the ex- plosion took place about fifteen seconds after the rapid progressive motion had ceased: in a few cases it wa... ...ce, however, between the character of the Span- iard and that of the Dutch boer is shown, by the former never asking his guest a single question be- y... ...d a retreat. They retired to their horses, and seemed to hold a council of war. This was an awful pause for the Spaniards, as all their ammunition, wi...

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...ey were in plenty of time for the train; that Mrs. Munt, though she took a second-class ticket, was put by the guard into a first (only two “seconds” ... ... not. My name is Charles.” “Younger” may mean son as opposed to father, or second brother as opposed to first. There is much to be said for either vie... ...ude of elephants dancing, they re- turned and made the observation for the second time. Helen could not contradict them, for, once at all 33 EM Forst... ...rue; just as the remark, “England and Germany are bound to fight,” renders war a little more likely each time that it is made, and is therefore made t... ... to Uganda this evening,” came from the table behind. “Their Emperor wants war; well, let him have it,” was the opinion of a clergyman. She smiled at ... ...es. Even the Bible— the Dutch Bible that Charles had brought back from the Boer War—fell into position. Such a room ad- mitted loot. “Now the entrance... ...ven the Bible— the Dutch Bible that Charles had brought back from the Boer War—fell into position. Such a room ad- mitted loot. “Now the entrance-hall...

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...ake a living, you can still open a little school; and you can easily buy a secondhand brass plate inscribed PESTALOZZIAN INSTITUTE and nail it to your... ...it is expressed in the proverb “Heaven for holiness and Hell for company.” Second, I point out that the wretched people who have independent incomes a... ...all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but of 21 seconds. The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness THE DIFFICULTY with children i... ...of Moses, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians... ...set free, to be anything else than the slave he actually is, clamoring for war, for the lash, for police, prisons, and scaffolds in a wild panic of de... ...which he has been brought up to consult his own honor. As a Sportsman (and war is fundamentally the sport of hunting and fighting the most dangerous o... ...urn out much less barbarous citizens than families of ten which attain the Boer ideal of being out of sight of one another’s chimney smoke. All one ca...

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...ittle of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair- haired, round-faced man of abo... ...ingly). Mr. Dudgeon means no offence, I feel sure. I will not keep you one second, Mr. Dudgeon. Just while I get my glasses—(he fumbles for them. The ... ...she has left the room without leave, closes her lips vengefully. HAWKINS. “Second, that he shall be a good friend to my old horse Jim”—(again slacking... ...an of peace vanishes, trans- figured into a choleric and formidable man of war. Still, she does not come out of her absorption to look at him: her eye... ...? RICHARD. I think you might have the decency to treat me as a prisoner of war, and shoot me like a man instead of hanging me like a dog. 55 GB Shaw ... ...our friend the British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. (He fol- lows Anderson.) SERGEANT (to Swindon). What orders, si... ...reinforcement, he was hopelessly outnumbered, and his officers picked off, Boer fashion, by the American farmer- sharpshooters. His own collar was pie...

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...he proportion of the sexes in the population. If in consequence of a great war three-quarters of the men in this country were killed, it would be abso... ...s) elegantly vicious rich and profligate poor alike. 44 Shaw CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY Without pretending to exhaust the subject, I h... ... its original bias in these directions. In spite of the putting off of the Second Coming from the lifetime of the apostles to the millennium, and of t... ... trades a marked differ- ence is made in price between a new article and a second- hand one. The moment we meet with this difference in value between ... ...sband or a wife is an article of property, greatly depreciated in value at second- hand, and not to be used or touched by any person but the proprieto... ...re doing. Ive a horrible misgiving about that pamphlet. All progress means war with Society. Heaven forbid that Edith should be one of the combatants!... ...vens! Forgive me, Bishop; but you are asking too much. I ran away from the Boers because I was a snob. I run away from the Beadle for the same reason....

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... school in the evening and reading to the lacemakers by day, became almost secondary. In due time the arrival of the ship was telegraphed, a hurried a... ...illie.” The other three—one was unaccounted for, but Cyril had torn up the second, and Francis had thrown the first overboard in a passion. Rachel loo... ...vourable except the dress. What a material; what a pattern! Did she get it second-hand from a lady’s-maid? Will there be an incongruity in her convers... ...d not gone back far enough to establish that he had not died in the Indian war. It was fear that predominated with her, there were many mo- ments when... ...see how entirely he had recovered.” “Then you went through all that Indian war?” “Yes; with Sir Stephen.” “You must show me all your medals! How much ... ...elong to it?” “No, indeed,” answered Rachel, rather indignantly , “I think war the great purifier and ennobler of nations, when it is for a good and g... ...member,” he continued. “It was when I was laid up with my wound at a Dutch boer’s till I could get to Cape Town. My sole reading was one number of the...