 | Missions - 1823 - 600 pages
...Gibbon, " shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalied characters," О for the happy period when men " shall learn war no more ! " Missionary Hymn... | |
 | Peace - 1827 - 548 pages
...as men shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." P/mcion's Magnanimity. Philip of Macedon had been a formidable enemy to the Athenians. When the news... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - Ethics - 1834 - 444 pages
...Taylor. i) Paley : Evidences of Christianity, p. 2, c. 2. Cmr. !».] * CONSEQUENCES OF WAR. 397 tors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." " 'Tis strange to imagine," says the Earl of Shaftesbury, " that war, which of all things appears the... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1837 - 558 pages
...says Gibbon, " so long as the destroyers of mankind are deemed more honorable than the benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." This truth the history of humanity confirms. Military glory, in all ages of the world, has been prized... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Bible - 1844 - 466 pages
...brought the power of Home to its height, and along with that power the vassalage of the nations. ' The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession...and historians, had kindled a dangerous emulation in his mind. The degenerate Parthians fled before his arms. He descended the river Tigris in triumph,... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 206 pages
...GIBBON, " shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." DYMOND'S INQUIRY. Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of Time, though meagre all, and ghostly... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 200 pages
...GIBBON, " shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." DYMOND'S INQUIRY. Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of Time, though meagre all, and ghostly... | |
 | Thomas MacNevin - Dungannon volunteer meetings - 1845 - 260 pages
...mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. "—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. ip 9. with an unclouded sun, or present the more rugged aspect... | |
 | Peace - 1845 - 648 pages
...mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." " 'Tis strange to imagine," says the Earl of Shaftesbury, " that war, which of all things appears the... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 386 pages
...mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. To pull down this stilted Oagon, to strip martial fame of its false glitter, and lay it in its wounds... | |
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Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. 
