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...expected to see a heap of charming and tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones...
...Behind the crusade appeared a new force-the GOU-which made its debut in Colonel Perón's garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country; it was the instrument of Argentine destiny...
...world, where Russia's influence was not on the march. This influence was due not merely to Russia's new military might. The Russian Government, temporarily "respectable." was permanently revolutionary. Its appeal, reaching far beyond its war fronts and frontiers, was, in theory, one of the noblest in the history of human hope - nothing less than the freeing of mankind from want, fear and suffering. But to safeguard its purpose, and focus its energies, it had organized one of the most resolute dictatorships the world had ever known, serviced by one of the most complex and efficient systems...
...widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played the piano, watercolored, amassed one of the world's largest, noblest autograph collections...
...This announcement has shocked all men and women who cherish a sense of justice and of human sympathy. It is in direct contradiction of the doctrines of the Catholic Faith professed by the vast majority of the Hungarian people. It is a negation of the noblest pages of Hungarian history and cultural tradition...