 | 1916 - 900 ページ
...sad lot of the innocent bystander. Let us then widen the connotations- of Young's satirical words: "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... | |
 | Jasper Mauduit - 1918 - 954 ページ
...unparalleled life. The money, as we shall see in our next paper, was well expended. MURDER AND WAR. 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1918 - 136 ページ
...exigencies too, and call For skill in government, at length made king. 65 W. COWPER. THE ETHICS OF MURDER 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 ページ
...Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice. God's angel, cries, Forbear! WHITTIER — Human Sacrifice. Pt. VII. oi one. LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. II. Ch. III. 9 All that lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 ページ
...makes a solitude, and calls it — peace ! The Bride of Abydos. Cattt. ii. BYRON. CRIMINALITY OF WAR. 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... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 ページ
...one of the most bloody-minded and barbarous countries of the earth. Charles Dickens, American Notes 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 ページ
...skill she vibrates her eternal tongue. For ever most divinely in the wrong. 12934 The Love of Fame on lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal... | |
 | Sun-tzu - 2003 - 392 ページ
...empire. 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, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 320 ページ
...specious Name, War's glorious Art, and gives immortal Fame. 0 great Alliance! O divine Renown! With Death and Pestilence to share the Crown! When Men extol...Name, Earth's Builder and Preserver they blaspheme. Better is a little with content than much with contention. A Slip of the Foot you may soon recover:... | |
 | Peter Hessel - 2005 - 262 ページ
...Misery's hand 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... | |
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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. 
