... intellects of Christendom for centuries, which has set Thomist against Scotist, Realist against Nominalist, and is likely to do the same to the end of time : — for these controversies are not dead, they have only a little shifted their ground ;... The Adventures of Robin Day - Página 100por Robert Montgomery Bird - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 638 páginas
...believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." And there was a remarkable instance of this in the late Indian war. In a letter from a young officer to... | |
| Llewelyn (fict.name.) - 1846 - 914 páginas
...much more fitting place for him than the tented plain. But, like the war-horse, he seemed " to smell the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting," and longed once more to listen to the music of the " spirit-stirring drum, and the earpiercing fife." Vainly... | |
| 1865 - 616 páginas
...improvise well-adapted gun-carriages for onr rails ; our steam-horses are ready and joyously " smelling tho battle afar off— the thunder of the captains, and the shouting," and our passenger carriages could with the slight addition of loop-holed iron-plates attached to their... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 páginas
...Cavalier and Roundhead, his fingers clutched eagerly at the sword-hilt, and, like the war-horse, he " smelt the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." With the help of his brave brothers, Samuel and Benjamin, he had got together a well-appointed... | |
| 1870 - 816 páginas
...countrymen felt. Even the professional soldiers, of whom certain classes are fond of saying that they smell the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting, and that the troubles of the world are their gain and great reward, even these deplored the groundless... | |
| 1870 - 856 páginas
...countrymen felt Even the professional soldiers, of whom certain classes are fond of saying that they smell the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting, and that the troubles of the world are their gain and great reward, even these deplored the groundless... | |
| John Edward Kempe - 1877 - 394 páginas
...they have only a little shifted their ground ; — and at once, like the war-horse of Job, he smells the battle afar off, "the thunder of the captains and the shouting," and nothing will content him till he finds himself in their midst. I have thus delivered myself freely... | |
| Linus Pierpont Brockett, Porter C. Bliss, Porter Cornelius Bliss - 1878 - 818 páginas
...their course they descried two armies drawn up for battle. Ertogrul, like Job's warhorse, " smelled the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting," and, drawing nearer, joined his force to what seemed to be the weaker side, which, thus reinforced, won... | |
| Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1879 - 408 páginas
...they have only a little shifted their ground ;— and at once, like the war-horse of Job, he smells the battle afar off, ' the thunder of the captains and the shouting,' and nothing will content him till he finds himself in their midst."* His many opponents discovered, to... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1886 - 324 páginas
...they have only a little shifted their ground ; — and at once, like the war-horse of Job, he smells the battle afar off, 'the thunder of the captains and the shouting,' and nothing will content him till he finds himself in their midst. - I have thus delivered myself freely... | |
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