Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used...
...interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never be; but as in Catholic countries men go for a time into retreat from the importunate dissonances of life to collect their better selves again by communion with things that are heavenly, and therefore eternal, so this Chartreuse of Wordsworth, dedicated to the Genius of Solitude, will allure to its imperturbable calm the finer natures and the more highly tempered intellects of every...
Engineer-in-Chief Melville of the United States Navy addressed a large audience in Sever 11 last evening. He spoke first upon the "Training of an Engineer," and afterwards gave an informal decription of the retreat to land upon the expedition of the Jeanette into the Arctic regions...
...ship was caught fast in the ice-floe and drifted north-west for twenty-two months. At the end of this time the ship was five hundred miles from Siberia, the nearest land, and was so badly crushed bp the ice that it had to be abandoned. The retreat to land was full of hardship. The men were weighted down with baggage, and progress over the uneven surface of the ice was slow and laborious. Two miles a day was all that could be made during the first part of the retreat. Food and water were scarce and gave...
When Napoleon was retreating from Russia, some young men were put into service and ordered to cover up the retreat of the Prussian army. For awhile they held the crossing of a road but their position was exposed. It became impossible to hold it and they met death. Napolean afterwards said that the reason these men did not retreat was because they did not know their danger. These young men were determined. It was God for whom they fought, he gave the commands, for him they would...