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1

Vox faucibus hæsit.

My voice stuck in my throat.

Vergil—Æneid. II. 774; III. 48; IV. 280.

2

Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

Wordsworth—Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland.

VOWS

3

Vow me no vows.

Beaumont and Fletcher—Wit without Money. Act IV. Sc. 4.

4

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes. V. 5.

5

Oh, why should vows so fondly made,
Be broken ere the morrow,
To one who loves as never maid
Loved in this world of sorrow?

Hogg—The Broken Heart.

6

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That 'tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him.

Nathaniel Lee—Rival Queens. Act I. Sc. 1.

7

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 96.

8

Let us embrace, and from this very moment
Vow an eternal misery together.

Thomas Otway—The Orphan. Act IV. Sc. 1.

(See also Frere under Friendship)

9

Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. ("Lends" in quarto, "gives" in folio.)

WAR

(See also Heroes, Navy, Soldiers)

10

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

Charles Francis Adams—Despatch to Earl Russell. Sept. 5, 1863.

Both Regiments or none.
Samuel Adams—(for the Boston Town Meeting.) To Gov. Hutchinson, demanding
the withdrawal of the British troops from
Boston after March 5, 1776.

'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
Samuel James Adams—Trafalgar Bay.

My voice is still for war.
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 | work = Cato. Act II. Sc. 1.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
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 | work = Cato. Act V. Sc. 4.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Almsus—Fragment. XXn.

Fifty-four forty (54° 40' N.), or fight.
Wm. Allen—In the U. S. Senate. On the
Oregon Boundary Question. (1844)
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 | text = <poem>And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life, which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain;
But who can get another life again?
Archtlochus—Fragm. VI. Quoted by Plutarch—Customs of the Lacedomonians.
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 | text = Let who will boast their courage in the field,
I find but little safety from my shield.
Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey:
This made me cast my useless shield away.
Another version of Archtlochus.

Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.

Aristides Referring to the proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont. ("A bridge for a retreating army.") See Plutarch—Life of Demosthenes

(See also Rabelais)

20

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

Premier Asquith—Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

21

They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swards crossed in front of the Hun; Never a groan but God has harkened,
Counting their cruelties one by one.

Katherine Lee Bates—Crossed Swords.

(See also Begbie, Diaz, Petain, Shepard)

22

O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.

Beaumont And Fletcher—The Two Nolle Kinsmen. Act V. Sc. 1.