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" Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 627
1847
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Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany

Noel Annan - 1997 - 300 pages
...cross the bridge and who echoed Horatius in thinking: And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods? Nor is it wrong to see Roosevelt, the American Scipio, as the man who gave hope to his countrymen during...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful - life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glo 6840 Lays of Ancient Rome 'Horatius' Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?...
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Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram

Peter S. Carmichael - 1998 - 228 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods? The drivers put their whips against the flanks of their horses "with a cheer." As the battery's caissons...
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Boys' Heroes

Edward Everett Hale - 2001 - 193 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh, soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing dreadful odds For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods ! " It would be rather an interesting thing to compare the different stories about the three who held...
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At Custer's Side: The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd

James Harvey Kidd - 2001 - 174 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods. NOTES 1. Kidd refers to a gathering of the Grand Army of the Republic, the principal Union veterans'...
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Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island

Gregory J. W. Urwin - 2002 - 784 pages
...every man upon this earth Death comedi soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Horatius,' from Lays of Ancient Rome I THE PLACE * * * * * I "AN EPIC THAT...
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Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and ...

Alfred L. Brophy - 2003 - 212 pages
...Defending the Temples of Their Gods: Greenwood Bunkers Down And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? The Outlook59 But our boys who learned the lesson On the blood-stained soil of France How to fight...
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Chief Bowles and the Texas Cherokees

Mary Whatley Clarke - 2003 - 194 pages
...that gallant Cherokee warrior might well have said: "And how can man die better, /Than facing fearful odds /For the ashes of his fathers/ And the temples of his gods." But Horatius was more fortunate.1 He held his bridge. Chief Bowles died on that field of battle, and...
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Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis - 2002 - 289 pages
..."Horatio at the Bridge." Death comes but once to all, Then how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods? " Cheers resounded and officers offered their arms to escort Lucy about the camp. She made the most...
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Patriotism: Quotations from Around the World

Herb Galewitz - 2003 - 68 pages
...light to see that duty. Good-bye. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR And how can a man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? THOMAS MACAU i AY A fatherland is an association on the same soil of the living and the dead, with...
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