Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hope of every private, lofty or low, is that the inspecting officer may drop a gun and some bold captain place on him the duty of guarding stacks...
...This happened about 1 o'clock, and I did not get down from the post to the hospital until 4.30 with my wounded. I found him perfectly conscious and apparently not suffering. He seemed so strong and cheerful that I did not give up hope, although the doctor said he would die any minute, as the shock to his heart had been too great. Everything possible was done for him, and they allowed me to spend the night with him. He did not suffer at all, and talked rationally about the work of the section, and was much interested...
...South, do not attempt from a barren sectional pride to defend a crime so horrible. For such lust of death in a whole city, a whole country-side, there is no shadow of defence, not now, nor in eternity. It is for those men who in time hope to lead the South to arouse such horror in their hearts of this mob blindness that they will do away with it forever; that our whole people, without sectional exception, will honor that law and justice upon which our nation rests...
...view of the friendly relations existing between this country and China and the manifold cordial bonds assuring peace between them in the future, one hopes that an actual test of cowardly qualities between these countries will never take place. But the contemptuous indictment involved in the editorial is not only unnecessary and unwarranted, but is most susceptible to interpretations that would easily lead to resentment and national animosity, especially as it forms a specimen--not a representative one, I hope--of opinion from men who have had the best opportunities of education and may guide the future destinies...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...