| Charles F. Ellerman - 1844 - 324 pages
...time in solitude. Winter around her — and winter in her heart ! OR, ALBA IN FLANDERS. CHAPTER IX. " Oh, 'tis excellent To have a giant's strength ! but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Measure for Measure. " WHAT means all this beating of drums — this blowing of trumpets ? What signify these... | |
| 1909 - 844 pages
...lt seems English administrators have to be reminded what every English school-boy knows: — "lt is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." But if the conduct of Anglo-lndia can be attributed in part to close proximity to the scene of rapid... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1844 - 732 pages
...power towards the poor and helpless? — shamefully and tyrannically ! " Oh ! it is excellent To ha»ea giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Whilst this proceeding was going on aï Hyderabad, Lieutenant Bnrnes was at Cabul. When the army descended... | |
| 1827 - 516 pages
...applauded. Such a privilege no one can accuse you of having neglected to turn to account. " Oh it is excellent * To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Was it love of truth or information, think you, that drew so many readers to your pages? If that had... | |
| Sophia Briggs - 1845 - 988 pages
...found her fair young mistress pale and lifeless. And it was thus they parted. CHAPTER XV. " Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphureous bolt, Split' st the unwedgeable and gnarled... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...gold, or silver ore, But wisdom — none can borrow, none can lend?* THE ABUSE OF AUTHORITY. O. it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Could grent men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet : For every pelting, petty... | |
| Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...ore, Rut wisdom— none can borrow, none can lirtd?" THR ARCS! OT ALTHOKiTY. O. it is excellent Tc have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant Could great men thumler As Jove liJim-l! dors, Jove would ne'er t«e quiet j for every pt-It.m*. petty... | |
| 1892 - 458 pages
...imperfections and the incapacity of the negroes, we dare not be base in our treatment of them. ' It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.' " Heroic South ! Home of my forefathers ! Home of my kindred ! Hope of my children, the temple and... | |
| Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 pages
...the judge's robe, Becomes them with one half so good a grace As Mercy does. " Again : — " O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant ! " What magnificent and deep philosophy there is in this : - " We are such stuff As dreams are made... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...another. Be satisfied ; Your brother dies to-morrow, — be content. And he, that suffers ! O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting petty officer... | |
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