 | Jonathan Dymond - Ethics - 1834 - 444 pages
...factitious glory as a cause of war Gibbon speaks in the Decline and Fall. " As long as mankind," says he, " shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefac* See Essay, ii. c. 10. f West. Rev. No. 1 for 1827. t Mem. and Rem. of the late Jane Taylor.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...actual frontier of the Turkish and Russian empires, t* r _JE j Trajan was ambitious of fame; TnjpiBte and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on tbeir destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the n'ce of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...ambitious of fame; and Conquests of Traas long as mankind shall continue to be- j"n in the East. stow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on...benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever j Soc НоЫеу'я Uritunnia Romana, 1. ic 10. k [Agrícola fortified tho passage situated between... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - Duty - 1842 - 226 pages
...the Decline and Fall. " As long as mankind," says he, "shall continue to bestow more liberal appluuso on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vire of the most exalted characters." " 'Tis strange to imagine," says the Earl of Shaftcsbury, that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...sentence quoted by APS, that I am led to believe that it may be the one of which he is in search : "As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more...benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever b« the vice of the most exalted characters." — Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. I. I believe that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 658 pages
...Bender, a place famous in modern history, and the actual frontier of the Turkish and Russian empires.18 Trajan was ambitious of fame ; and as long as mankind*\...continue to bestow more liberal applause on their de- V. stroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory f will ever be the vice of... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Society of Friends - 1851 - 324 pages
...volumes. The former, more especially, may be useful in identifying original documents. MAETIAL MONUMENTS. As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal...their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. — (COPE'S Anecdotes.) on?... | |
 | London univ - 1852 - 358 pages
...Morning, lOtol. LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION. Examiner, Dr. JKRRAKII. Translate into Latin Prose : 1 . Trafan was ambitious of fame ; and as long as mankind shall...more liberal applause on their destroyers than on tbeir benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...u, that he would probably have been as wlae when he concluded aa when he beifan." — JA St. JtAn. * "As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their beneftctors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." —... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...fame ; and as long as mankind shall conf thiue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers he than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the y-lce Of tjle mogt exajte(j characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets... | |
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Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue of Trajan to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their in the east benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. 
