 War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless and disheartening of human retrogressions, and yet the stimulant of qualities of soul which, in every race, can seemingly find no other means of renewal.  Scribner's Magazine - Halaman 653diedit oleh - 1915Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Edith Wharton - 1915 - 284 halaman
...(if one has failed to before) why the French say of themselves: "La France est une nation guerriere." War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...at once in which sense the French are "une nation guerriere." It is not too much to say that war has given beauty to faces that were interesting, humorous,... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1915 - 270 halaman
...(if one has failed to before) why the French say of themselves: "La France est une nation guerriere." War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...at once in which sense the French are "une nation guerriere." It is not too much to say that war has given beauty to faces that were interesting, humorous,... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1915 - 280 halaman
...(if one has failed to before) why the French say of themselves: "La France est une nation guerriere." War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...at the faces at Chalons, one sees at once in which 54 FIGHTING FRANCE sense the French are "une nation guerriere." It is not too much to say that war... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1915 - 264 halaman
...one has failed to before) why the French say of themselves: "La France est une ^-\ nation guerriere." War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...which, in every race, can seemingly find no other j means of renewal. Everything depends, therefore, on the category of impulses that war excites in... | |
 | Jean Bethke Elshtain - 1995 - 317 halaman
...sensibility as she journeyed around France inscribing exaltation: La France est une nation guerriere. War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...of soul which, in every race, can seemingly find no means of renewal.... War has given beauty to faces that were interesting, humorous, acute, malicious,... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 2003 - 692 halaman
...one has failed to before) why the French say of themselves: "La France est une nation guerriere. "6 War is the greatest of paradoxes: the most senseless...at once in which sense the French are "une nation guerriere." It is not too much to say that war has given beauty to faces that were interesting, humorous,... | |
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