 | Samuel Smiles - 1900 - 456 pages
...rather it is my Duty. The highest of us is but a sentry at his post. WHYTB-MELVILLB. The hlood of man is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for OUT country, for our kind ; the rest is vanity, the rest is crime. — BURKE. I came here to perform... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 1022 pages
...at ten thousand times their price. 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,...country, for our kind. The rest is vanity ; the rest is crime. In the war of the Grand Alliance most of these considerations voluntarily and naturally had... | |
 | James Mackinnon - 1902 - 876 pages
...equally astonishing. "The blood of man," says Burke, "should never be shed, but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends,...country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime." Admitting the latitude of this category, which, however, requires some explanation, how much... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 488 pages
...we might spill our blood,' etc. ' 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.' Burke's Regicide Peace (Select Worht, ed. Payne, p. 67). ' The meanest peasant,' etc. A phrase of Vetus's.... | |
 | 1903 - 172 pages
...movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. — RW Emerson. The blood of man is well shed for our family, for our friends, for...for our kind ; the rest is vanity — the rest is crime. — Edmund Burke. Work should not only be accepted as our punishment on account of Adam's transgression,... | |
 | Walter Lorenzo Sheldon - 1904 - 478 pages
...ATTACKS OF OTHER NATIONS. MEMORY GEM—"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,...country, for our kind,— the rest is vanity; the rest is crime."—Edmund Burke. Dialogue. What is the purpose of having any "country," or being the citizen... | |
 | Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster - 1904 - 238 pages
...IX. THE NAVY AND ARMY.— PART I. "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 kind — the rest is vanity ; the rest is crime.' — Edmund Burke. XXI. The Defence of the Country. 1. ALL of you know something about our sailors... | |
 | Walter Lorenzo Sheldon - 1904 - 474 pages
...blood of man should never be shed but /,> redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, fur our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind,— the rest is vanity; the rest is crime."—Edmund Burke. Dlalogrue. What is the purpose of having any "country," or being the citizen... | |
 | 1918 - 990 pages
...tbed but to redeem the blood of man. It it well shed (or our Family, for our friends, for our Gort, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest ii crime. — Burke. GERMANY'S GREAT SECRET When you come right down to the rock bottom of things,... | |
 | John Walker - 1907 - 330 pages
...immortal words of Burke carved on Lord Falkland's monument on the field of Newbury : " The blood of man is well shed for our family, for our friends, for...country, for our kind ; the rest is vanity, the rest is crime." "You boast That you can buy the necessary slaves — Tommies that undertake to man the coast,... | |
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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. 
