 | George Iles - Artists - 1909 - 204 pages
...self-boasting and adulation, how strong would be my belief in final success and happiness to our country! But what a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, 68 General Robert E. Lee and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 517 pages
...lives in many lands. Whose beauty stars the earth, And lights the hearths of happy homes War.—But what a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy...and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness that God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours,... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - History - 1911 - 782 pages
...CONFEDERATE FORCES ON DECEMBER 13, 1862 my belief in final success and happiness to our country. But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy...to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! I pray that on this day, when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 790 pages
...CONFEDERATE FORCES o\ DECEMBER 13, 1802 my belief in final success and happiness to our country. But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy...to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! I pray that on this day, when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - United States - 1912 - 372 pages
...all the horrors of war. " You have no idea of what a horrible sight a battlefield is." 7 And again: "What a cruel thing is war ; to separate and destroy...devastate the fair face of this beautiful world." 8 Yet we must remember that at the time of his great military glory Lee was an old man and the fury... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Southern States - 1912 - 538 pages
...self-boasting and adulation, how strong would be my belief in final success and happiness to our country. But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy...to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world ! I pray that on this day, when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 542 pages
...self-boasting and adulation, how strong would be my belief in final success and happiness to our country. But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy...to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world ! I pray that on this day, when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - English language - 1912 - 304 pages
...selfboasting and adulation, how strong would be my belief in final success and happiness to our country ! But what a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy...to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world ! I pray that, on this day when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may... | |
 | Social sciences - 1913 - 816 pages
...life? Mr. Bradford puts two sayings of Lee in juxtaposition, but he does not attempt to reconcile them: "What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy...devastate the fair face of this beautiful world." And then a single sentence, uttered during the battle at Fredericksburg : "It is well that war is so... | |
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But what a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world ; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this... 
