Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said...
...content with a nobler adjective. It is the glory of the Democratic Party to be known as the party of liberalism speaking for and in the name of the liberal thought of the Country...
...they object to being called "mock martyrs" they can easily convince the nation of their sincerity provided they do not lack one quality courage. A soldier, fighting for his country, is not ashamed to wear the uniform which identifies him with his cause. Would you, pacifists, heroes of a nobler (and safer) strife be ashamed to put on some uniform which would identify you with your principles?--a uniform say of bright yellow cloth with a cap set off by a gallant white feather...
...human life. It is not to be feared, it is to be used. No discovery of science has taken from us our faith, but when we realize how our conception of the universe has been enlarged ten thousand times we have a conception of God ten thousand times greater nobler and more spiritual than was that of our fathers...
...have developed certain phases and consequently have their place but it is futile to expect that ingrafted upon Hinduism they can bring about better results. That is why they have failed to appeal to the enlightened Hindus of India who find in Hindu-Dharma a deeper philosophy and a nobler conception of religion...