...strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. Milton' i Paradise Loit. The nine Their fainting foes to shameful flight compelled, And with...

...strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to owr-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. Milton's Paradise...

...instances, the destruction of those works, the remains of which the world lias since been proud to own. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...view of the heroic ages of christianity," says an interesting historian, "in regard to their grand and general results, is a useful and important, though...

...Omnibus eat vita? : sed famam exteiidere factis Hoc virtutis opus. VIRGIL. They err, who count it glory to subdue By conquest, far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battles win. It may by means far different be attaiu'd Without ambition, war, or violence, By deeds of peace, by...

...instances, the destruction of those works, the remains of which the world has since been proud to own. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...view of the heroic ages of christianity," says an interesting historian, "in regard to their grand and general results, is a useful and important, though...

...argued against this custom, and doubtless in the hope of convincing the mind of some lover of war. — " They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. What do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and inslave Peaceable nations,...

...less known ; Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. 70 They err who count it glorious to subdue ' By conquest...wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battels win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter,...

...less known ; Where glory is false glory, attributed To things not glorious, men not worthy of fame. 70 They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...far and wide, to over-run Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn,...

...far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battels win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave 75 Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their...

...instances, the destruction of those works, the remains of which the world has since been proud to own. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...Peaceable nations. * * * • "A view of the heroic a^es of Christianity," says an interesting historian, "in regard to their grand and general results,...