 | 1900 - Страниц: 742
...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." Force cannot satisfy or appease any nation, especially one that has passed the stage of barbarity,... | |
 | Daniel Carey - 1901 - Страниц: 100
...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." However much the skill and bravery of the soldier or the ability of the ruler may have awakened the... | |
 | 1889 - Страниц: 692
...continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. To sum up then this part of Mr. Dymond's essay, we learn first, that war is caused because we do not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - Страниц: 480
...of a flourishing state. Such men as Moses, Cyrus, Alfred, Gustavus Vasa, Henry IV. of France, &c." "The thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted [characters . . . but he] lamented with a sigh that his advanced age, &c." All included within the brackets is... | |
 | Walter Walsh - 1906 - Страниц: 576
...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." Had he said " most malign characters " the saying would have been true. It is thus that war damages... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - Страниц: 368
...Japan to Morocco, any feeling or memory of the Roman Empire?" On page 6, Bury's edition, the text is, "The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession...kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan." We can imagine that Gibbon reflected, What evidence have I that Trajan had read these poets and historians?... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Norton - 1912 - Страниц: 138
...deep-drawn sighs." Gibbon's account of Trajan contains these statements, "Trajan was ambitious of fame ... The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled and dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan. Like him, the Roman emperor undertook an expedition... | |
 | John Craig Havemeyer - 1914 - Страниц: 386
...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. ' " The following is submitted as a summary of fundamental truth connected with this discussion : " 1st. In... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - Страниц: 850
...continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." 2M Political ambition, with its intrigues and its coups d'tlat, has also been symbolized in the same... | |
 | Bertram Lloyd - 1918 - Страниц: 120
...continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." And in spite of the dubious meaning of the last adjective, and the fact that nowadays civilised war... | |
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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. 
