 None of these men were enervated by wealth, or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life ; none of them put off the evil day in the hope, natural to poverty, that a man though poor may one day become rich. But deeming that the punishment of their enemies...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6911918Full view - About this book
 | Fred Morrow Fling - History - 1907 - 422 pages
...become rich. But, deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined at the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged, and to leave the rest. They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness;... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - History - 1915 - 758 pages
...become rich. But deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined at the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged, and to leave the rest. They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness ;... | |
 | Europe - 1916 - 738 pages
...be rich. Holding the punishment of their enemies to be sweeter than any of these things, and knowing that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined at the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged, and to leave the rest to fate. They resigned the uncertain hope of happiness, and... | |
 | Lane Cooper - Greece - 1917 - 330 pages
...for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity.'8 'They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness,...death they resolved to rely upon themselves alone. " The emphasis here is upon the intelligent calculation that entered into Athenian warfare. The deity... | |
 | Storm Jameson - 1922 - 320 pages
...life. . . . But, deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined...lives to be honourably avenged, and to leave the rest. . . . Eeflect that this empire was acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it,... | |
 | Charles Alexander Robinson - History - 1959 - 180 pages
...become rich. But, deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and that they could fall in no nobler cause, they determined at the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged, and to leave the rest. They resigned to hope their unknown chance of happiness;... | |
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