Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost self-evident to those who understood affairs in the East. It is not the Chinese soldier who is at fault, but the whole theory of the government. The Chinese have many of the traits to make good soldiers; they are more like us than we imagine...
...reduced to two ships, which escaped. This engagement does not teach much of a lesson, except to be ready when the time comes to fight. The Japanese were too feebly opposed to tell anything about the relative merits of different classes of ships. The effect of this battle, like that at Ping Yan, was very decisive, opening the way to an advance upon the Gulf of Pechili, as that at Ping Yan had cleared the approaches to Manchuria...
...judgment (or some stage of Being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory had been gained: 'Hang yourself, brave Crillon! we fought at Arques, and you of all men were not there...
...religion is largely personal and depends not on institutions like the church, or on the Bible, but on Christ as He is there described. At the same time even today in spite of His revelation to the world, He is the mystery of our religion. Although in the present age we are inclined to look as much as possible to exact science, we are forced to admit that we can not understand the world or even our own lives. In the same way much of religion is a mystery, and this indeed gives it much of its strength. Upon...
...account of that curse. True it is, at all events, that from the time of John Hathorne down through a long line of Salem-dwelling and seafaring descendants to the time of Nathaniel, who added a "w" to the family name and genius to the family possessions, nothing like good luck had visited the race...