It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial lesson;... Modes and Morals - 228 psl.autoriai: Katharine Fullerton Gerould - 1920 - 276 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| 1919 - 1066 psl.
...England, and the Boer War. Of course, he was always an imperialist; he always loved Lord Roberts — as long ago as the Plain Tales, when Kipling was at once...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! flow one has heard that rough-andready poem reviled — in the early nineteen-hundreds! Even now one... | |
| 1901 - 862 psl.
...legs, and two into four goes twice, And nothing over except our lesson, and very cheap at the price. It was our fault, and our very great fault, and now...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get. We have had an imperial lesson;... | |
| William Thomas Stead - 1901 - 742 psl.
...knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite. We have had a jolly good lesson, and it serves us jolly well right ! It was our fault, and our very great fault— and...million reasons for failure but not a single excuse ! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 236 psl.
...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...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 230 psl.
...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...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 236 psl.
...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...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 322 psl.
...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 reasons for failure, but not a So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get— We have had an Imperial... | |
| 1904 - 770 psl.
...PROVE USEFUL IN OUR NEXT WAR. BY "BACKSIGHT FORETHOUGHT." " It was our own fault, and our very grave fault, and now we must turn it to use, We have forty...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse ! " KlPLINC. THIS tale of a dream is dedicated to the "gilded popinjays " and " hired assassins " of... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 420 psl.
...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...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse ! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an Imperial... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1915 - 372 psl.
...fact in a humble yet hopeful mood — We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good! THE LESSON It was our fault, and our very great fault...million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get — We have had an imperial... | |
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