- Anglický jazyk
Tourgee, A: Veteran
Excerpt from The Veteran: And His Pipe
If you have succeeded in forgetting the impulse that made you, for a time at least, a hero, and regarding your wounds as poor dumb mouths that testify of personal peril, rather than the immortal cause in which...
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Excerpt from The Veteran: And His Pipe
If you have succeeded in forgetting the impulse that made you, for a time at least, a hero, and regarding your wounds as poor dumb mouths that testify of personal peril, rather than the immortal cause in which theyswere won, you can hardly feel surprise that the veteran is remembered chie¿y as a pensioner heroism regarded only as a claim to public charity, and the soldier yote con sidered a political commodity, to be purchased With the promise of public plfi'n'derfi.
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- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781331576082