SOLDATENGESCHICHTEN
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SOLDATENGESCHICHTEN (ebook)

RUDYARD KIPLING

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OTBEBOOKPUBLISHING
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9783987445675
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Auszug: "Einmal lebten sehr weit von England drei Männer, die einander so liebten, daß weder Mann noch Weib sie trennen konnte. Sie waren nichts weniger als fein, und nicht geeignet, in die Vorzimmer vornehmer Leute gelassen zu werden, denn sie waren gemeine Soldaten in Ihrer Majestät Armee; und der gemeine Soldat in englischen Diensten hat wenig Zeit für seine Vervollkommnung. Seine Pflicht ist, sich und seine Ausrüstung fleckenlos sauber zu halten, sich zu hüten, öfter betrunken zu sein, als unbedingt nötig, seinen Vorgesetzten zu gehorchen und um Krieg zu beten. Alles dies thaten meine Freunde; und als Zugabe vollführten sie noch einige Faustkämpfe, die nicht im Dienstreglement vorgesehen waren. Ihr Schicksal bestimmte sie zum Dienst in Indien, das kein goldenes Land ist, obgleich manche Dichter es als solches besungen haben. Die Menschen sterben dort mit großer Schnelligkeit, und die, welche leben bleiben, erfahren viele und merkwürdige Dinge. Ich glaube nicht, daß meine Freunde sich viel um die sozialen oder politischen Verhältnisse des Orients kümmerten."

Otros libros del autor

  • ABAFT THE FUNNEL
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "The measure of a man's popularity is not always—or indeed seldom—the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that the venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification. Fortunately thes...

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  • LAND AND SEA TALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots an hour between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advan...

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  • DEBITS AND CREDITS
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided to create the Greatest Substitute (Adam), He despatched, as is known, the faithful and the excellent Archangel Jibrail to gather from Earth clays, loams, and sands endowed with various colours and attribute...

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  • DOCTORS
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "On October 1st, 1908, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was kind enough to distribute the prizes at the opening of the new session of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. The address which he then delivered was deemed by those who heard it so admirable, both in form and substance, that there arose a desire to preserve it. The object of this little book is to satisfy that w...

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  • LETTERS OF MARQUE
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it. It is good to escape for a time from the House of Rimmon—be it office or cutchery—and to go abroad under no more exacting master than personal inclination, and with no more ...

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  • IN BLACK AND WHITE
    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Excerpt: "In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubára of Dhunni Bhagat. No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived his life, made a little money and spent it all, as every good Hindu should do, on a work of piety—the Chubára. That was full of brick cells, gaily painted with the figures of Gods and kings and elephants, where worn-out priests co...

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