 | English literature - 1859 - 598 pages
...we fear that the passages we have quoted far overpass all the bounds of moderation and good sense. It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...character may be reared, and the highest acts of duty done ; that these great and precious results may be due to war as their cause ; and that one high form of... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 390 pages
...fear that the passages we have quoted are such as overpass the bounds of moderation and good sense. It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...he can receive from the hand of God. It is moreover pot less true that, amidst the clash of arms, the noblest forms of character may be reared, and the... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - English literature - 1879 - 388 pages
...fear that the passages we have quoted are such as overpass the bounds of moderation and good sense. It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...has every other blessing, without exception, that lie can receive from the hand of God. It is moreover not less true that, amidst the clash of arms,... | |
 | New England - 1898 - 842 pages
...that war has done this in any other sense than its sister tribulations. "It is indeed true," he says, "that peace has its moral perils and temptations for...exception that he can receive from the hand of God. It is true that amidst the clash of arms the noblest forms of character may be reared and the highest acts... | |
 | New England - 1898 - 782 pages
...blessing without exception that he can receive from the hand of God. It is true that amidst the dash of arms the noblest forms of character may be reared and the highest acts of duty done. . But this is as the furious cruelty of Pharaoh made place for the benign virtue of his daughter; as... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 686 pages
...choose to say of it, is no antidote for Mammon-worship and can never be a cure for moral evils : — It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...character may be reared, and the highest acts of duty done ; that these great and precious results may be due to war as their cause ; and that one high form of... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 680 pages
...choose to say of it, is no antidote for Mammon-worship and can never be a cure for moral evils : — It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...character may be reared, and the highest acts of duty done ; that these great and precious results may be due to war as their cause ; and that one high form of... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1907 - 966 pages
...choose to say of it, is no antidote for Mammon-worship and can never be a cure for moral evils : — It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...character may be reared, and the highest acts of duty done ; that these great and precious results may be due to war as their cause ; and that one high form of... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1911 - 1000 pages
...choose to say of it, is no antidote for Mammon-worship and can never be a cure for moral evils : — It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils and temptations for degenerate mail, as has every other blessing, without exception, that he can receive from the hand of God. It... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Books - 1914 - 552 pages
...we fear that the passages we have quoted far overpass all the bounds of moderation and good sense. It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils...character may be reared, and the highest acts of duty done ; that these great and precious results may be due to war as their cause ; and that one high form of... | |
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It is, indeed, true that peace has its moral perils and temptations for degenerate man, as has every other blessing, without exception, that he can receive from the hand of God. It is moreover not less true that, amidst the clash of arms, the noblest... 
