Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points I beg leave to mention. I fear you are a bit too confident in your belief about the availability of the aeroplane. Theoretically union men are not supposed to carry pistols or blackjacks; such instruments are for the protection of--er--the public, and are reserved to Allan Pinkerton's brave boys. If things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman...
...these hasty letters of mine, and which I am informed by cable, has led to doubt as to their authenticity. It is generally believed that the Incas had no written language except the ideographs which are commonly cut by all early tribes on the faces of the rocks. This belief is not surprising, but it is inaccurate. My readers will please remember that the account which follows is not mere speculation of my own, nor is it based wholly on the findings of the present expedition. It is to be seen in the records of the early Spanish explorers...
...situation where he has nothing to occupy him, and he is pretty likely to be unhappy. Treat him with large doses of Samuel Butler and other anti-Victoreans of the "naughty nineties" and he is quite as likely to convince himself of "The Meaninglessness of Life". A belief in The Meaninglessness of Life is helpful in clearing the mind of outworn traditions but when it becomes the solo guide of life the chances are that it will be an easy excuse for not striving against Inertia and for self indulgence...
...success of the solution of the Irish Question, upon which he has relied so much to restore his prestige, has been seriously imperiled by the dispute over the boundary of Ulster and foreign affairs are in no better shape. There is a widespread belief in England that the failure to come to a closer agreement with France in the Cannes Conference was a serious diplomatic blunder. Many think that the trip of the Prince of Wales to India, where his presence has failed to allay the revolutionary discontent, was another costly mistake. Conditions in Egypt, already bad enough from...
...there is a wonderfully sweeping crescendo of magnificent passion and as it touches the heights Peter finds self, belief, and love...