| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...vibrates her eternal tongue, For ever most divinely in the wrong. 12934 The Love of Fame One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe To murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War's glorious art', and gives Immortal fame. 12935 The Love of... | |
| Sun-tzu - History - 2003 - 392 pages
...Translator: Or, as the poet Edward Young (1683-1765) expressed it in his poem "Love of Fame": One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. There are Five Fundamentals... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...would bring up two Children. Many have been ruin'd by buying good pennyworths. OCTOBER One to destroy, is Murder by the Law, And Gibbets keep the lifted Hand in Awe. To murder Thousands, takes a specious Name, War's glorious Art, and gives immortal Fame. O great Alliance! 0... | |
| Peter Hessel - History - 2005 - 262 pages
...bestows, To fill the catalogue of human woes. — John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783) — One to destroy is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name — War's glorious art — And gives immortal fame. — Edward Young... | |
| Arminianism - 1817 - 1000 pages
...manner, the triumphs of Alexander over various joms, adds the following lines :— " One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; To murder thousands takes a specious name, Wai's glorious art, and gives immortal fame." on Original Sin, published... | |
| Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...When men extol a wild destroyer's name, Earth's builder and preserver they blaspheme. One to destroy, is murder by the law ; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. When, after battle,... | |
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