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This is now well recognized by all of our naval experts. The fighting ship, not the commerce destroyer, is the vessel whose feats add renown to a nation's history, and establish her place among the great powers of the world. Last year the Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration met at Vienna, six hundred members of the different legislatures of civilized countries attending.
Thus, notwithstanding his bad conduct, Smith had spread his renown for hundreds of miles as that of a "strange man;" and when he started his new religion, and declared himself "a prophet of God," the people did not wonder.
'Brandebourg, said Robert, 'have ye within there never a man-at-arms, or two or three, who would fain cross swords with other three for love of their ladies? Brandebourg answered that their ladies would not have them lose their lives in so miserable an affair as single combat, whereby one gained the name of fool rather than honorable renown. 'I will tell you what we will do, if it please you.
His name was Gaudissart; and his renown, his vogue, the flatteries showered upon him, were such as to win for him the surname of Illustrious. All things smiled upon our traveller, and the traveller smiled back in return. "Similia similibus," he believed in homoeopathy.
Master Headley's sword was found honourably broken under the tree, and was reserved to form a base for his intended ex voto. He uttered the vow in due form like a funeral oration, when Stephen, with a swelling heart, had laid the companion of his life in the little grave, which was speedily covered in. "A citizen Of credit and renown; A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town."
It was not very well written, this poetry of labour, but the pluck of the sentiment redeemed what was weak or wordy in the expression. The martial and the patriotic pieces, on the other hand, were tearful, womanish productions one and all. The poet had passed under the Caudine Forks; he sang for an army visiting the tomb of its old renown, with arms reversed; and sang not of victory, but of death.
The courage born of God, not man, The truth to speak, cost what it may; The patience to endure the trials That form a part of every day; The purpose firm, the will to do The right, wherever we may be; The wisdom to reprove the faults That in our loved ones we may see, Reprove in tone and spirit sweet, And ne'er in temper's eloquence; The heart to love the ones in wrong, While wrong we hate in every sense; The strength to do our daily task As unto God, for we're his own, To seek his approbation sweet, And not men's praise, fame, or renown, These, these, and more, are things we need If Christ we'd represent indeed.
She is the daughter to this Prospero, who is the famous duke of Milan, of whose renown I have heard so much, but never saw him till now: of him I have received a new life: he has made himself to me a second father, giving me this dear lady." "Then I must be her father," said the king; "but oh! how oddly will it sound, that I must ask my child forgiveness."
Thus the bold pretensions of an impostor have robbed the discoverer of his just reward, and the caprice of fame has unjustly assigned to him an honour far above the renown of the greatest conquerors that of indelibly impressing his name upon this vast portion of the earth, which ought in justice to have been called Columbia.
Jean-Marie would find the world at his feet; the roads open to success, wealth, honour, and post-humous renown. 'And O, by the way, said he, 'for God's sake keep your tongue quiet! You are, of course, a very silent fellow; it is a quality I gladly recognise in you silence, golden silence! But this is a matter of gravity.
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