 | Alexander McKenzie - Congregational churches - 1897 - 330 pages
...no means true, save under very limited conditions ; nor is that what Lytton said, but this : — " Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword." " Take away the sword ; States can be saved without it ; bring the pen ! " This is obvious enough,... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw." POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 275. " Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword." BULWER LYTTON. Richelieu (Richelieu), Act II., Sc. II. " Benefits and meek submission tame The fiercest... | |
 | Charles Bingham Reynolds - Library architecture - 1897 - 56 pages
...in stones, and good in everything. And in the border on the west wall: Man raises but time weighs. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. The noblest motive is the public good And rhe inscription in the ceiling : A little learning is a dangerous... | |
 | Sigmund Freud - Medical - 1989 - 436 pages
...might add that the following lines from Lord Lytton's Richelieu made a great impression on the boy: Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. . . . 7 and that he has become a prolific writer and uses an exceptionally large fountain pen. When... | |
 | United Nations Environment Programme - Nature - 1995 - 252 pages
...activities and fund-raisers. Write on! In the mid-nineteenth century, the playwrite Baron Lytton wrote, "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." A well-placed, well-timed and well-argued letter can quite often turn the course of events, so take... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - History - 1996 - 404 pages
...and whispering her honored and honorable names in their nation's history, pray her to remember : — "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword !" The energy, the enterprise, the almost universal selfabnegation, and complete devotion, with which... | |
 | John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - Architecture - 1997 - 330 pages
...The accompanying inscriptions are as follows: Man raises but time weighs. — modern Greek proverb Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. — Bulwer Lytton The noblest motive is the public good. —Virgil lOOOOOOOl! AUOOOOLOjOOOOOOOLU/iUiL... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...heart. ELIZABETH BOWEN, (1899-1973) AngloIrish novelist. The Death of the Heart, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1938). Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ROGER BUSSY-RABUTIN,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...live, not live to read. 1723 The Parisians Revolutions are not made with rosewater. 1724 Richelieu n 1725 Richelieu In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such... | |
 | Philip Steele - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 64 pages
...as a human right, we suggest that it is a basic need, without which human society couldn't survive. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, British novelist (1803-73) The idea of natural human rights was championed by... | |
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. 
