 But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in...  The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - Page 192by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 634 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1896 - 88 pages
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail them... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1901 - 1526 pages
...illusion, he adds this one fact of which he is sure, — namely, "that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has... | |
 | Robert Erskine Ely - Arbitration (International law) - 1907 - 542 pages
...to throw away his life in obedience to plainly accepted duty in a cause which he little understands, a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." It is because we find his faith true and adorable that we praise the soldier, that he has been transfigured... | |
 | Arthur Train - Legal stories - 1918 - 328 pages
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt — and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use !' " Jack made no reply. "'For high and dangerous action,'" I continued, " 'teaches us to believe as... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1896 - 716 pages
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is, that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail them... | |
 | Anglo-Catholicism - 1918 - 580 pages
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt — and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which our doubting... | |
 | Michael Rogin - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 374 pages
...Battle-Pieces says, with the Civil War veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "that faith is true and adorable, which leads a soldier to throw away his life, in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." 31 Antebellum fathers like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Francis Adams, and Amasa Walker spoke with... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger Dean University of Michigan Law School - Law - 1986 - 310 pages
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Reprinted in The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, ed. Max Lerner (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943), 18,... | |
 | Lee Clark Mitchell - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 170 pages
...is that the faith is true and adorable which leads 80 a soldier to throw away his life in obediance to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.8 By the 1890s, Holmes could wrench the battlefield from the social and historical context of the... | |
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