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" The Charge of the Light Brigade": "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. "
The Media and Communications in Australia
by Stuart Cunningham, Graeme Turner - 2005 - 416 pages
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Notes of lessons on moral subjects

Frederick William Hackwood - Moral education - 1883 - 224 pages
...ITS DUTY, as each soldier becomes an obedient MACHINE at the disposal of the commanding officer, as in the charge of the Light Brigade, — " Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die." — Tennyson. Further explain that the DIFFERENCE IN DISCIPLINE was one cause of the...
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Conditions of Spiritual Life

Thomas Hobbs Stacy - Christian life - 1901 - 112 pages
...key to every door." Tennyson shows what it means to enlist in the English army in his description of the " Charge of the Light Brigade " : " Theirs not to reason why, Theirs not to make reply, Theirs but to do and die." Loyalty to nature's seedtime is what makes nature loyal...
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Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New ..., Volume 9

Political science - 1922 - 836 pages
...without the need for thinking. Apt illustration of what is expected of the line is found in Tennyson's " Charge of the Light Brigade " Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. in obedience to command. The purpose of training in " Staff " organization is quite...
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Official Proceedings, Volume 18

St. Louis Railway Club - Railroads - 1913 - 510 pages
...friends, they are practically synonymous terms. In fact, in war the soldier accepts the rule laid down in "The Charge of the Light Brigade :" Theirs not to reason why; theirs not to make reply; theirs but to do or DIE. So with the stanch and loyal railroad operative, as I have...
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X Marks My Place

Paul Councel - 1938 - 86 pages
...are practical men, disdainful of theory, whose life slogan might well have been culled from the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade!" "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die," and so on. Or like the story of the scientist with- the gyroscope: "Han? the explanation...
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Dean Acheson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 858 pages
...would have declined the assignment, but he had more latitude than under secretaries of state. Like the Light Brigade, "Theirs not to reason why — theirs but to do or die!" Often both. I pass over the meeting quickly. Judge Hutcheson demanded to know why his committee had...
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Faces of War: A Collection

Dave Brown - Canada Armed Forces Biography - 1998 - 172 pages
...training. But, then, training wasn'ta concern. They were soldiers and had all read Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade: "Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die." Mobility and supply lines had been dreadfully underestimated. On maps, one-lane dirt...
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The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

Dick Morris - Political Science - 2000 - 266 pages
...seek a president who "will disregard the polls and just lead," ask for the political equivalent of The Charge of the Light Brigade (" . . . theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die"). It does no service to a cause to fail grandly. When Clinton called for massive healthcare reform, he...
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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914–1918: Tragedy and Triumph on ...

Winston Groom - History - 2007 - 348 pages
...seeing men like themselves blown into pieces or shot to rags on a daily basis. Tennyson's spirit o\ the Light Brigade, "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die," might have some application to men riding bravely into artillery fire in a single cavalry charge, but...
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Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue

Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 408 pages
...up in a poem written midway between the 1833 inception and the 1885 revision of "Tiresias," the 1854 "The Charge of the Light Brigade": "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die" (14—15). But Tiresias, while calling for the same kind of complete and unquestioning...
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