 Ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you these men and women, all the world over, in every stage of history, under every abuse of error, under every circumstance of failure, without hope, without help, without thanks, still obscurely fighting...  Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays - Page 38by John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 pages
...everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness : — ah ! if I could show you this ! if I could show these men and women, all the world over, in every...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls ! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 298 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness: — ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honour, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 322 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness:—ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you these...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honour, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness: — ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness: — ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 456 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness : — ah ! if I could show you this! if I could show you...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honour, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 456 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and carriage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness:— ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you...fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honour, the poor jewel of their souls! They may seek... | |
 | William James - 1899 - 328 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and courage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness,—ah! if I could show you this! If I could show you these...lost fight of virtue, still clinging to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls." All this is as true as it is splendid, and terribly do we need... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 104 pages
...everywhere some decency of thought and courage, everywhere the ensign of man's ineffectual goodness, — ah! if I could show you this! If I could show you...help, without thanks, still obscurely fighting the last fight of virtue, still clinging to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls." All this... | |
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