 | Steven Stavropoulos - Self-Help - 2008 - 224 pages
...more sacred, and held in greater honor both among gods and among all reasonable men. —Plato, Crito Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. —Homer, The Iliad If [your country] leads you out to war, to be wounded or killed, you must comply,... | |
 | Jonathan Friday - Philosophy - 2004 - 222 pages
...aphorism, To defend our country is the best of all auguries', or as Pope has very well expressed it: Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause. If we attend to all the circumstances, and reflect that both Hector and Homer believed in auguries,... | |
 | James Beattie - Philosophy - 2004 - 216 pages
...aphorism, To defend our country is the best of all auguries:' 7 or, as Pope has very well expressed it, Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause. 8 [7] Iliad. Book XII, 1. 243. [8] [The Iliad of Homer, Book XII, 11. 283-4.] If we attend to all the... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 436 pages
...inauspicious dream, to have discouraged me. Notwithstanding this, I engaged in the cause, reflecting that, — Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause : for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that were possible,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1817 - 822 pages
...fight •your battles, but let them feel as they fight that they are as free as they are brave : < " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, " And asks no omen but his country's cause." Gentlemen should be consistent. They affect to think it part of their religion to love their enemies... | |
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
