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" For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times, and thirty times, and all will be in vain. There is but one way to defend Samoa. Hear it before it is too late. It is to make roads and gardens, and... "
The Literary World - Page 55
1899
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McClure's Magazine ..., Volume 5

American literature - 1895 - 646 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will." The speaker then referred to the parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30), and, continuing, impressively...
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Vailima Letters, Volume 2

Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1895 - 392 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not others will.' The speaker then referred to the parable of the 'Talents,' Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin: November 1890 to October 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 354 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will." The speaker then referred to the parable of the "Talents," Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Correspondence addressed to ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 366 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will." The speaker then referred to the parable of the "Talents," Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 17

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1896 - 368 pages
...country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may f1ght, you may conquer twenty times, and thirty times, and...and use your country. If you do not, others will." The speaker then referred to the parable of the "Talents," Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 352 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...roads, and gardens, and care for your trees, and sell 3i7 their produce wisely, and, in one word, to occupy and use your country. If you do not, others will."...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 4

Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1911 - 440 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will.' The speaker then referred to the parable of the 'Talents,' Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 25

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 548 pages
...defence of our common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a tune to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will." The speaker then referred to the Parable of the Talents, Matt. xxv. 14-30, and continuing, impressively...
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Forty Years in My Bookshop

Walter Thomas Spencer - Booksellers and bookselling - 1923 - 396 pages
..." bungalow by the grateful chiefs of the island. " Chiefs," exclaimed Stevenson during his speech, "you Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...and use your country. If you do not, others will. . . . I do not speak of this lightly, because I love Samoa and her people. I love the land, I have...
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Elements of Rural Economics

Thomas Nixon Carver - Agriculture - 1924 - 296 pages
...defence of bur common country against all aggression. For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times,...occupy and use your country. If you do not others will. . . . What are you doing with your talent, Samoa ? . . . Have you buried it in a napkin ? . . . You...
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