 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favourite. They knew well that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...with plunder. For the soldier he subsidized every body ; to the people he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered with his gains;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favourite. They knew well that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...with plunder. For the soldier he subsidized every body ; to the people he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered with his gains;... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favourite. They knew well that, if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that, if he exposed them...peril, he repaid them with plunder. For the soldier, he subsidised every people ; to the people, he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favorite. They well knew that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...repaid them with plunder. For the soldier he subsidized everybody; to the people he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered with his... | |
 | Henry Marlin Soper - Readers - 1885 - 136 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favorite. They knew well that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...them with plunder.. For the soldier he subsidized everybody; to the people he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered with his... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 472 pages
...stipulation •was for the safety of their favorite. They knew well that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...repaid them with plunder. For the soldier he subsidized everybody ; to the people he made even pride pay tribute. The victorious veteran glittered with his... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1902 - 520 pages
...first stipulation was for his safety. They well knew that if he was lavish of them, he wa.s equally prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to peril, he repaid them with riches. The victorious veteran glittered with his gains, and the capital of France, gorgeous with the... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 280 pages
...stipulation was for the safety of their favorite. They knew well that if he was lavish of them, he was prodigal of himself; and that if he exposed them to...affectation of literature must not be omitted. The jailer of the Press, he affected the patronage of letters — the proscriber of books, he encouraged... | |
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The victorious veteran glittered with his gains; and the capital, gorgeous with the spoils of art, became the miniature metropolis of the universe. 
