 War is the condition of this world. From man to the smallest insect, all are at strife ; and the glory of arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty, and temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism,...  History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the ... - Pagina 438door William Francis Patrick Napier - 1878Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1876 - 818 pagina’s
...shortcomings of their military system, until they shall be opened by the painful logic of facts. 23. " War is the condition of this world. From man to the smallest insect, all are at strife." And so long as human nature remains unchanged, the nation which is content to dispense with military armaments,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 884 pagina’s
...dark !•! A and threatening. Yet she rejoices in the glory of her arms ! And it is a stirring sound ! War is the condition of this world. From man to the...smallest insect all are at strife, and the glory of arms cannot be obtained without the exercise of fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty and temperance, excites... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 pagina’s
...mankind was war, and to sustain the exulting language of the soldier in our own day, who has said : " War is the condition of this world. From man to the...arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty and 6 temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 pagina’s
...mankind was war, and to sustain the exulting language of the soldier in our own day, who has said : " War is the condition of this world. From man to the...excites the brave man's patriotism, and is a chastening correction of the rich man's pride."* * Napier Penins. War. vi. 688. " Why, man," said a British General,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 pagina’s
...mankind was war, and to sustain the exulting Ian guage of the soldier in our own day, who has said : « War is the condition of this world. From man to the...cannot be obtained without the exercise of honour, fortitade, courage, obedience, modesty and temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism, and is a... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 104 pagina’s
...all are at strife ; and the glory of arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty and temperance,...excites the brave man's patriotism, and is a chastening correction of the rich man's pride."* I now ask what is war ? Let me give a short but strictly scientific... | |
 | William Grattan - 1847 - 388 pagina’s
...and left our breasts undecorated, — save by scars ? Nevertheless, we did rejoice; and why? Because "War is the condition of this world. From man to the...and temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism." * Independently of all this, our feelings of mortified pride and anger were stifled when we were, as... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...forbid that his enthusiasm for War should become general, for it is of a truly rabid character:—"War is the condition of this world. From man to the smallest insect all are at strife!" (Hist. War in the Penins., book xxiv. chap. 6.) This is a mere reproduction of Hobbes: " The state... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 pagina’s
...mankind was war, and to sustain the exulting language of the soldier in our own day, who has said, " War is the condition of this world. From man to the...arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty, and temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 pagina’s
...insect, all are at strife, and the glory of arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty, and temperance,...excites the brave man's patriotism, and is a chastening correction of the rich man's pride." * Alas ! in the existing relations of nations, the infidel philosopher,... | |
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