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" Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. "
The Harvard Classics - Page 212
edited by - 1909
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Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ...

1805 - 378 pages
...lent. What coward councils would your madness move ? Jove can defend. ...May we not trust in Jove ? Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause ; But why should'st thou suspect the war's success, None fears it more, as none promotes it less ;...
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Cicero's epistles to Atticus, with notes, tr by W. Guthrie, Volume 1

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1806 - 402 pages
...dictated to me these sentiments in a book written in favour of the aristocratic party, I can have no doubt that Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause2. But we will reserve these matters for our walks3 at the compitalitia. Do not forget, the day...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 pages
...sure he most usually relates falsehoods ; however, nothing hinders but he may sometimes speak truth." were sufficient, after such an inauspicious dream,...brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country's causet — for I looked upon the promise I had given to be as sacred to me as my country, or, if that...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...irrevocable nod, 275 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 asks no omen but his country's cause. 284 But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less :...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 41

John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...descend; 280 'To right, to left, unheeded take your way, ' While I the dictates of high lieav'n ohey. ' Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, ' And asks no omen but his country's cause. e But why should'st thou suspect the war's success? ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less:...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 346 pages
...he most usually relates falschoods ; however, nothing hinders but he may sometimes speak truth," . Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And...event happened as I wished ; and it was that very cause which first procured me the favourable attention of the public, and threw open to me the gates...
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Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volume 3

James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...country is the best of all * P;ir. Lost, briok v. " 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,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 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 asks no omen but his country's cause. But why shoiildst thou suspect the war's success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...Irft, unheeded take your w:iy, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his s\vord the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why sliouldst thou suspect the war's success f None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, tr. by T. Taylor

Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 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'^ cause "." 1 Stesichorus signified by this enigma, that if the Locrian* behaved insolently...
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