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" Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. "
Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ... - Page 140
1805 - 358 pages
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Letters ... written between the years 1784 and 1807 [ed. by A. Constable].

Anna Seward - 1811 - 420 pages
...witty, becomes the poetic dress, though it may not be picturesque.— Instances : •— — -— " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause, May I, or noble life, or death obtain, Death, ill-exchang'd for bondage, or for pain." '' O let not...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 2

Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And...success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amidst yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape their fire. Troy...
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Proverbs: Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with ..., Volume 2

Proverbs - 1814 - 262 pages
...wings extend, Or where the suns arise, or where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way" " Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. When Cassius was advised by the augurs not to fight with the Parthians until the moon had passed the...
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Catholicon; or, The Christian philosopher, Volumes 3-4

1816 - 562 pages
...them fight your battles, and feel that they fight them free as they are brave.— [Hear, ¡¡car.] " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause." Again and again, I say the principle of your law is bad ; it attaints the child for the crime of the...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - Ethics - 1818 - 436 pages
...soldiers to encounter danger, though they have not sacrificed, may employ [what Hector says to Polydamas,] Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.' And when those are exhorted to fight who are inferior to their opponents in force, it may be said,...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics ... Translated from ..., Volume 1

Aristotle - 1818 - 420 pages
...to encounter danger, though they have not sacrificed, may employ [[what Hector says to Polydamas,] Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.' And when those are exhorted to fight who are inferior to their opponents in force, it may be said,...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - Ethics - 1818 - 422 pages
...to encounter danger, though they have not sacrificed, may employ [what Hector says to Polydamas,]] Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.1 And when those are exhorted to fight who are inferior to their opponents in force, it may be...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 2

Homer - 1822 - 342 pages
...where descend; To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And...success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amidst yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape their fire. Troy...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 348 pages
...where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And...success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amidst yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to' escape their fire. Troy...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 41

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 344 pages
...where descend; To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And...success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though all our chiefs amidst yon ships expire, Trust thy own cowardice to escape their fire. Troy...
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