 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 2581856Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...Conquests ,.,,,, . . . ,., ° , of Trajan mankind shall continue t:> bestow more liberal in the east, applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors,...will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled a dangerous... | |
 | 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 of the most exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled a dangerous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...Inscriptions, tom, xxviii. p. 444.— 468. Trajan was ambitious of fame ; and as long as man- CIIAP. kind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...as man- of"1^ ConquesU •ajan in kind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on tLe east. their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst...will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled a dangerous... | |
 | Missions - 1823 - 600 pages
...as 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
...as mankind shall conquem continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers fn tbeí«*\. than on their benefactors, the thirst of military...will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, 12 See Appian (in Proem.)... | |
 | Peace - 1827 - 548 pages
...to correct their errors by gentleness and goodness." Plutarch. __ Remark of Gibbon. "As long as men shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on...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 - 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...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... | |
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