 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.  The London University Calendar - Page clxby London univ - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...mankind shall continue tox bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their bonefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice...an expedition against the nations of the East ; but he'lamented, with a sigh, that his advanced age scarcely left him any hopes of equalling the renown... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...man- CIIAP. kind 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 of Tr•j•n characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by inlhci;ast a succession of poets... | |
 | Missions - 1823 - 600 pages
...mankind," says 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...shall conquem continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers fn tbeí«*\. than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever...transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, 12 See Appian (in Proem.) and the uniform imagery of Ossian's Poems, which, according to every hypothesis,... | |
 | Peace - 1827 - 548 pages
...Gibbon. "As long 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 - Conscientious objectors - 1834 - 358 pages
...mankind," says 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."* " 'Tis strange to imagine," says the Earl of Shaftesbury, "that war, which of all things appears the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the n'ce of the roost exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted...dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan. Like him ti*e Roman emperor undertook an expedition ^aiost the nations of the cast, but h? lamented with a sigh,... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1837 - 558 pages
...lauded. And, 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,... | |
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