| William Thomas Stead - Europe - 1901 - 742 pages
...the best, but even they are much more remarkable for their good sense than for their poetry :— Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We...jolly good lesson, and it serves us jolly well right ! It was our fault, and our very great fault— and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 230 pages
...will be worth as much as the Rand : Let us approach this pivotal fact in a humble yet hopeful mood — We have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good ! It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 236 pages
...will be worth as much as the Rand : Let us approach this pivotal fact in a humble yet hopeful mood — We have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good ! It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1903 - 378 pages
...will be worth as much as the Rand : Let us approach this pivotal fact in a humble yet hopeful mood — We have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good ! It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million... | |
| Herbert C. Fyfe - Submarine warfare - 1907 - 350 pages
...aim to hit their opponents and to avoid being hit themselves. "Let us admit it fairly as a husiness people should — We have had no end of a lesson, it will do us no end of good.'' In naval warfare we have had an opportunity of learning lessons in the light of actual experience,... | |
| James Austin Holden - Ticonderoga, Battle of, N.Y., 1758 - 1911 - 178 pages
...1831), pp. 68-69. 2 As Kipling so well puts it in " The Lesson," written because of the Boer War, " Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain...jolly good lesson, and it serves us jolly well right." The Five Nations, (Outward Bound ed.), pp. 113-115. The moral of which is, that the lesson taught Great... | |
| Dugald Christie - Manchuria (China) - 1914 - 382 pages
...adjoining compound was purchased, a most necessary addition. XIII A STRANGE AFTERMATH OF WAR " Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We...no end of a lesson ; it will do us no end of good." Rudyard Kipling. " For mankind springs salvation by each hindrance interposed." Bordello. TN many parts... | |
| Dugald Christie - Manchuria (China) - 1914 - 392 pages
...adjoining compound was purchased, a most necessary addition. XIII A STRANGE AFTERMATH OF WAE " Let ufl admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have...no end of a lesson ; it will do us no end of good." Rudyard Kipling. " For mankind springs salvation by each hindrance interposed." Bordello. Emany parts... | |
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