 The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 161by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime. E. BURKE. — Regicide Peace, Part I. THE QUEEN OF FRANCE IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - Great Britain - 1913 - 696 pages
...balancing the account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten times their price. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime." " AS to war," he says, " if it be the means of wrong and violence, it is the sole means of justice... | |
 | Hensley Henson - Sermons - 1915 - 314 pages
...passionate apologist of Britain's long war against Napoleon, and with an even more anxious conviction : The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime. 8. Reluctantly but decisively then we reach our conclusion. War is indispensable in the world as we... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Authorship - 1916 - 328 pages
...account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price — the blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime. Magnificent truly! But your ear has doubtless detected the blank verse — three iambic lines: Are... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Germany - 1917 - 32 pages
...account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime.' The question I have asked is a difficult question to answer, or, rather, the answer is not easy to... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong, Sir John Willison, Zebulon Aiton Lash - Canada - 1917 - 174 pages
...neighbour, nor wasted our strength in civil brawls and domestic dissension. We have believed with Burke that "the blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime." No guilt lies upon us if in this year of jubilee we are oppressed by sorrow and sacrifice. The old... | |
 | Robert Goldsmith - Arbitration (International law) - 1917 - 380 pages
...suffering is too precious to be prodigally and needlessly wasted. " The blood of man," said Burke, " should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime." It has been demonstrated again and again... | |
 | Robert Goldsmith - Arbitration (International law) - 1917 - 370 pages
...suffering is too precious to be prodigally and needlessly wasted. " The blood of man," said Burke, " should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime." It has been demonstrated again and... | |
 | Anniversaries - 1918 - 184 pages
...guide me, guard mee, save me, O thou Lord of hosts. Amen. Foure Birdis of Noah's Ark, by THOMAS DEKKER. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime. Proposals for a Regicide Peace, v. 145, by EDMUND BURKE. August 5 German Army entered France, 1870.... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 152 pages
...account of such wars, ten thousand hogsheads of sugar are purchased at ten thousand times their price. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem...our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.' The question I have asked is a difficult question to answer, or, rather, the answer is not easy to... | |
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