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" The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the... "
The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers - Página 424
de Lydia Hoyt Farmer - 1886 - 477 páginas
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The Pan-Angles: A Consideration of the Federation of the Seven English ...

Sinclair Kennedy - 1914 - 266 páginas
...steady extension of the Pan-Angle control in North America. " The struggle was literally worldwide. Red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America, and black men fought in Senegal in Africa ; while Frenchmen and Englishmen grappled in India as well...
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Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 páginas
...The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice or injustice of the thought, note the singular force and beauty of this passage,...
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The Third Great War, 1914-1918: Considered in Relation to Modern History

Laurie Magnus - 1915 - 236 páginas
...was felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America1; it is still more true that the "ground of discord was not always equally apparent even to...
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Arms and the Men

Ian Hay - 1950 - 366 páginas
...the very name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had sworn to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped one another by the Great Lakes of North America. They were the days, too, in which Walpole remarked...
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Modern American Usage: A Guide

Wilson Follett, Carlos Baker - 1966 - 386 páginas
...It guided Macaulay's prose from first to last, as in his famous sentence about Frederick the Great: In order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. The translators of the English Bible achieved glorious cadences by putting matching ideas in parallel...
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International Ethics

Larry Alexander - 1985 - 332 páginas
...European opinion and a century later Frederick's conduct elicited from Macaulay the sublime observation: "In order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had...promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromondel and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes in America."73 The international law of...
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Pontiac and the Indian Uprising

Howard Henry Peckham - 1994 - 388 páginas
...summarized the extent of the war in his caustic observation: "In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." After preliminary diplomatic maneuvering by France and Britain to enlist allies, the two sides lined...
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Collective Security Beyond the Cold War

George W. Downs - 1994 - 284 páginas
...order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast ol Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." 28. Gulick argues that in this era all a statesman truly needed to know was the size of the armies,...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...which ye tread? 6802 Blographical Essays 'Frederic the Great' In order that he might rob a neighbour Where there is doubt, faith: Where there is despair,...there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice...
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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

Victor Gordon Kiernan - 1998 - 310 páginas
...Macaulay's mordant words, to enable Frederick the Great to rob a neighbour of a province in Europe 'black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and...men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.'1 Afro-Asia was helping to forge its own chains; on a more sanguine interpretation it was...
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