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A little while ago we quoted Pompey for his expression on the other side ; yet , on the other hand , when a certain Spartan king had said , " Happy that republic which has for its boundaries the spear and the sword , " Pompey corrected ...
A little while ago we quoted Pompey for his expression on the other side ; yet , on the other hand , when a certain Spartan king had said , " Happy that republic which has for its boundaries the spear and the sword , " Pompey corrected ...
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Hence have arisen these proverbs , - that it is the cause which makes the soldier brave or base ; that he rarely comes safe back who goes out on the bad side ; that hope is the ally of the good cause ; and others to the same effect .
Hence have arisen these proverbs , - that it is the cause which makes the soldier brave or base ; that he rarely comes safe back who goes out on the bad side ; that hope is the ally of the good cause ; and others to the same effect .
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... while in their mode of maintaining opposite sides of a question they afford a laudable example of moderation , contending against each other with arguments , and not , as the custom has been of late , to the dishonor of learning ...
... while in their mode of maintaining opposite sides of a question they afford a laudable example of moderation , contending against each other with arguments , and not , as the custom has been of late , to the dishonor of learning ...
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... mercy in practice , has been constant on both sides of the Atlantic . My honored colleagues of the Peace Conference , the germ of this work in which we are all so earnestly engaged lies in a single sentence of Grotius's great book .
... mercy in practice , has been constant on both sides of the Atlantic . My honored colleagues of the Peace Conference , the germ of this work in which we are all so earnestly engaged lies in a single sentence of Grotius's great book .
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With these men he sent two Indians , one from among those he had brought from Guanahani , and another a native of the houses by the river - side . He gave them strings of beads with which to buy food if they should be in need ...
With these men he sent two Indians , one from among those he had brought from Guanahani , and another a native of the houses by the river - side . He gave them strings of beads with which to buy food if they should be in need ...
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| Title | Old South Leaflets Old South Leaflets, Old South Association Issue 5 of Old South leaflets: Annual series |
| Contributor | Old South Association |
| Publisher | Directors of the Old South Work, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 8 pages |
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