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... carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every- where behind them . " Vastum ubique ... carried on by half - famished barba- rians , may consult the elaborate researches of the author of the Essay on ...
... carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every- where behind them . " Vastum ubique ... carried on by half - famished barba- rians , may consult the elaborate researches of the author of the Essay on ...
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... carried on by France against Egypt was , as Bourrienne avows , pro- posed by Buonaparte , to sustain his own power and military reputation ; and was conceded by the directory , in hopes of ridding themselves of an ambitious and ...
... carried on by France against Egypt was , as Bourrienne avows , pro- posed by Buonaparte , to sustain his own power and military reputation ; and was conceded by the directory , in hopes of ridding themselves of an ambitious and ...
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... carried on with unusual rancour , yet the duke of Guise , governor of the town , exerted in those barbarous times a degree of humanity , that would make a splendid figure even at present : he ordered plenty of food for those who were ...
... carried on with unusual rancour , yet the duke of Guise , governor of the town , exerted in those barbarous times a degree of humanity , that would make a splendid figure even at present : he ordered plenty of food for those who were ...
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... carry a contested point , yet when the battle is over , and he comes to a reconciliation , he is so much taken up with the mere shaking of hands , that he is apt to let his antagonists pocket all they have been contending about . It is ...
... carry a contested point , yet when the battle is over , and he comes to a reconciliation , he is so much taken up with the mere shaking of hands , that he is apt to let his antagonists pocket all they have been contending about . It is ...
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Philip Bury Duncan. PRIVATE WARS . " The abuse of private wars was carried to so great an extent in Germany in the 15th century , that not only sovereigns and states engaged in hostilities from interest and revenge , but the lesser ...
Philip Bury Duncan. PRIVATE WARS . " The abuse of private wars was carried to so great an extent in Germany in the 15th century , that not only sovereigns and states engaged in hostilities from interest and revenge , but the lesser ...
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Page 80 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Page 46 - ... that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 58 - is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Page 31 - Prince quarrelleth with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a War is entered upon, because the Enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our Neighbours want the Things which we have, or have the Things which we want; and we both fight, till they take ours or give us theirs.
Page 31 - Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine...
Page 46 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 32 - If a prince sends forces into a nation, where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living. It is a very kingly, honourable, and...
Page 47 - He is continually volunteering his services to settle his neighbors' affairs, and takes it in great dudgeon if they engage in any matter of consequence without asking his advice ; though he seldom engages in any friendly office of the kind without finishing by getting into a squabble with all parties, and then railing bitterly at their ingratitude. He unluckily took lessons in his youth in the noble science of...
Page 31 - HE asked me what were the usual Causes or Motives that made one Country go to War with another. I answered, they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the Ambition of Princes, who never think they have Land or People enough to govern: Sometimes the Corruption of Ministers, who engage their Master in a War in order to stifle or divert the...
Page 71 - To his latest breath did this great patriot maintain the noble character of a Captain, the patron of Peace, and a Statesman, the friend of Justice. Dying, he bequeathed to his heirs the sword which he had worn in the War of Liberty, and charged them " Never to take it from the scabbard but in self-defence, or in defence of their country and her freedom...