 He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people as the most precious of earthly gifts. It is with a view to this that he receives, collects, and dispenses such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful...  Rules and Proceedings - Page 63by Oxford Architectural & Historical Society - 1864Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1841 - 670 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats, and places of inclosure for fish and birds.... | |
 | 1837 - 612 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats, and places of enclosure for fish and birds.... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...collects, and dispenses such an immensity of money. He ia equally skilful aud liberal in erecting -walls, towers, fortifications, moats, and places of enclosure... | |
 | English essays - 1862 - 860 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats and places of enclosure for fish and birds.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 708 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats, and places of enclosure for fish and birds.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1866 - 704 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats, and places of enclosure for fish and birds.... | |
 | England - 1873 - 664 pages
...pacific in heart ; valorous in war ; but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people as the m»< precious of earthly gifts. It is with a view to this that ho receives, collects, and dispenses such an inmien.sity of money. Ho is equally skilful in erecting... | |
 | M. J. Guest - Great Britain - 1879 - 700 pages
...once disliked a person, hardly ever altered his mind. He was a good soldier, but above all things, " glorious in peace, which he desires for his people as the most precious of earthly gifts. . . . No one is more gentle to the distressed, more affable to the poor, more overbearing to the proud.... | |
 | Montague John Guest - Great Britain - 1894 - 656 pages
...once disliked a person, hardly ever altered his mind. He was a good soldier, but, above all things, "glorious in peace, which he desires for his people as the most precious of earthly gifts. . . . No one is more gentle to the distressed, more affable to the poor, more overbearing to the proud.... | |
 | Oxford Architectural & Historical Society - Oxford (England) - 1860 - 510 pages
...drinking, more splendid in gifts, more generous in alms. He is pacific in heart, victorious in war, but glorious in peace, which he desires for his people...such an immensity of money. He is equally skilful and liberal in erecting walls, towers, fortifications, moats and places of enclosure for fish and birds.... | |
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