The Warrior's Looking Glass: Wherein is Shewn from Many High Authorities, the Trivial Causes, Cruel Nature, Direful Effects and Anti-Christian Spirit and Practice of WarJ. Crome, 1808 - 204 Seiten |
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... is Shewn from Many High Authorities, the Trivial Causes, Cruel Nature, Direful Effects and Anti-Christian Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. JX 1946 B37 ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Front ...
... is Shewn from Many High Authorities, the Trivial Causes, Cruel Nature, Direful Effects and Anti-Christian Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. JX 1946 B37 ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Front ...
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... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN E PLURIOUS UNUM TUEBOR SI - QUE RIS - PENINSULAM AMENAM CIRCUMSPICE .. THE WARRIOR'S Looking - Glass : WHEREIN IS SHEN FROM.
... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN E PLURIOUS UNUM TUEBOR SI - QUE RIS - PENINSULAM AMENAM CIRCUMSPICE .. THE WARRIOR'S Looking - Glass : WHEREIN IS SHEN FROM.
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... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. JX 1946 837 Entered at Stationers Hall . PREFACE . A PREFACE to a book , is not of Biographers, Hiftorians and Poets, refpecting ras, whom they too frequently, at the expence.
... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. JX 1946 837 Entered at Stationers Hall . PREFACE . A PREFACE to a book , is not of Biographers, Hiftorians and Poets, refpecting ras, whom they too frequently, at the expence.
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... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. PREFACE . A PREFACE to a book , is not always a mere formality it is fometimes a neceffary preliminary , to give the Reader a general view , both of the defign and the execution of the whole ...
... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont. PREFACE . A PREFACE to a book , is not always a mere formality it is fometimes a neceffary preliminary , to give the Reader a general view , both of the defign and the execution of the whole ...
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... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont ! abhorrence which they fo juftly de ferve . But , tho ' rmany good things have been faid against this bad practice , as appears by the felections in this book , yet thefe good things have been ...
... Spirit and Practice of War George Beaumont ! abhorrence which they fo juftly de ferve . But , tho ' rmany good things have been faid against this bad practice , as appears by the felections in this book , yet thefe good things have been ...
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answer army battle bear arms BEILBY PORTEUS blood buy a fword called Celsus chris Christ Christendom church Clodius Albinus command commandest thou conqueror conscience consider contrary crime Cyprian death destroy destruction devil Dioclesian Dion disciples divine earth enemies evil faith Father fhall fight gainst give globe glory gospel hath havock heaven holy honour horrid human hundred idolatry Irenæus Julian the apostate Justin Justin Martyr kill king Lamb Lamb of God lawful lives Lord Louvois magistrates mankind Martyr Maximian Maximilian military millions murder nations nature never ny hundreds obey opinion peace peaceable perish practice pride prince profession prophecy religion replied revenge rusal saith Satan sentiments slaughter soldiers spirit stroy suffered Sulpitius Severus Tatian Tertullian thee themſelves ther things thousand tian tion true ture tyger unlawful unto victory violence wars whole words
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Seite 113 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Seite 82 - Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or have the things which we want, and we both fight till they take ours, or give us theirs.
Seite 151 - Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own...
Seite 130 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Seite 149 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled Nor had he where to rest his head.
Seite 130 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Seite 141 - But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Seite 82 - ... and reduce them from their barbarous way of living. It is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he hath driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison or banish the prince he came to relieve.
Seite 150 - ... shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun: But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Seite 149 - twas all about,' Young Peterkin, he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; 'Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.