 | 1918 - 1442 страници
...the events which followed showed that the final outcome of the struggle could no longer be in doubt. "For freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed from...bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." Let me add a true story told me by an Englishman. A captured German prisoner, who had been wounded,... | |
 | John D. Stokes - 1887 - 68 страници
...buckled on their armor and stood for civil and religious liberty and they wrung it from tyrant hands. " For freedom's battle once begun Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." And when British tyranny sought to impose unjust exactions, they asserted their independence, and Concord... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 страници
...show, That slaves howe'er contented never know. Cowper. 12. Freedom is above silver and gold. Ger. 13. Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won. 14. He is not free who drags his chain after him. Fr., Ital. 15. He is the freeman whom the truth makes... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1887 - 422 страници
...presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others ? 27. Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. 28. Rest is not quitting the busy career ; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. CHAPTER XVI.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 648 страници
...Freedom's cause. We are resisting usurpation and oppression. We will triumph; we must triumph. Right is with us. A great and fundamental principle of right,...meet with impediments, and may meet with disasters, aud here and there a defeat; but ultimately Freedom's cause must triumph; for " Freedom's battle once... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 страници
...the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil. Burke For Freedom's battle oft begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron If we are true to our country, in our day and generation, and those who come after us shall be... | |
 | 1889 - 840 страници
...circumvented and defeated, yet finally buried the oligarchy and the " Family Compact " in a common ruin : " For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." In this instance " Freedom's battle " was transferred literally from father to son, for the sturdy... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1889 - 322 страници
...presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? 21. Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son Though baffled oft, is ever won. 22. Rest is not quitting the busy career ; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. 'Tis loving and... | |
 | Alexander Hutton Drysdale - 1889 - 666 страници
...centre. A spirit of Presbyterian Union is now set in ; and Union's battle will be like Freedom's — " Once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." A Union landmark — a sign of these times of ours, and a symbol of the coming era, is the Pan-Presbyterian... | |
 | Ratcliffe Hicks - 1896 - 378 страници
...never destroy or exterminate the undaunted spirits of the Irish people. The poet has truly said, — " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." We can already begin to see the dawn of a better day. By agitation, by public meetings, by a calm,... | |
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Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. 
