 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Memorial Day addresses - 1884 - 20 pages
...or thought and make for ourselves new careers. But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through...fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with 12 s fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.... | |
 | Helen Campbell - 1901 - 384 pages
...fought and who remembers." The colonel paused a moment, and his eyes lightened as he went on : " ' Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a " profound and passionate thing." While we are permitted to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Public opinion - 1967 - 68 pages
...0—97May we not say of our generation what Justice Holmes said of his Civil War generation, that1 — Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn that life is a profound and passionate thing . . . We have seen with our own eyes, beyond... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1967 - 68 pages
...Americana? May we not say of our generation what Justice Holmes said of his Civil War generation, that1 — Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched witi fire. It was given us to learn that life is a profound and passionate thing . . We have seen with... | |
 | History - 1980 - 224 pages
...wounded at Ball's Bluff, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, looking back on his generation reminisced: "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us at the outset to leam that life is a profound and passionate thing ... we ... learned that whether... | |
 | William Lawrence O'Neill - 362 pages
...woman could possibly be, she was of that generation about which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote: "In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." Having matured amidst violence... | |
 | William Lawrence O'Neill - 362 pages
...woman could possibly be, she was of that generation about which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote: "In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." Having matured amidst violence... | |
 | Michael C. Adams - History - 1990 - 200 pages
...perhaps the most stirring time of his life, writing in famous lines: 'The generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience Through our...in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire." This message, passed down to young men, made them want to take part in the great male adventure which... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - Law - 1992 - 342 pages
...noncombatant).49 Virtue for him was heroic virtue: will, daring, inspiring example, which he had known in the war. "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our...the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."50 There is an intensity that makes one want to murmur "Nietzschean" rather than "Darwinian"... | |
 | National Science Foundation (U.S.) - Research - 1984 - 414 pages
...time for the 1 985-86 academic year. Precollege Education Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire." Gifted teachers can certainly touch students' hearts with fire. But teachers and students also need... | |
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. 
