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The change of name indicates a new epoch in a life, or a transformation of the inner man. His victory with God involved the certainty of his power with men. All his life he had been trying to get the advantage of them, and to conquer them, not by spear and sword, but by his brains. But now the true way to true sway among men is opened to him.
No, my boys, we'll give it to the vermin, never fear, they shall have it, as sure as Sam Houston stands in his own shoes." "It's impossible for us to go back, General," cried another speaker; "can't be must at 'em! What, General, our richest plantations lie between the Colorado and the Brazos, and are we to abandon them to these thieves? No, General must be at them must conquer or die!"
And I ask you to break it, knowing that you may certainly do so with impunity, because, in demanding that 'Mfuni should conquer me or, rather, the sword which I gave you you demanded of him that which neither he nor any other warrior could possibly accomplish." Then ensued another tense silence, during which the king appeared to be meditating upon what I had said.
This service Fitzstephen represented to the king, and begged that he might be equally honored. "My liege," he said, "my father steered the ship with the golden boy upon the prow in which your father sailed to conquer England, I beseech you to grant me the same honor, that of carrying you in the White Ship to England."
Her wonderful face had never shone up at his more brightly than on that night, as he drew back his lips from a long fond kiss. “To-morrow—the triumph. You will be conqueror of Hellas. Xerxes will make you satrap. I wish we could conquer in fairer fight, but what wrong to vanquish these Hellenes with their own sly weapons? Do you remember what Glaucon said?” “What thing?”
He seemed trying to conquer it, to twist his face into its habitual shape, but, like the spirit of a strange force, the smile broke through. It had mastered him, his thoughts, his habits, and his creed; he was stripped of fashion, as on a thirsty noon a man stands stripped for a cool plunge from which he hardly cares if he come up again.
All that can be done is to facilitate communication by roads, and to secure the principal avenues and the most remarkable posts on the navigable rivers by forts and stations. To conquer the people, you must subdue the nature of the country. The Romans at length effected this; but until this was done, they never were able to make a perfect conquest.
'The Lord is my Banner'; obey His orders and do not take anybody else's; nor, above all, the suggestions of that impatient, talkative heart of yours, instead of His commandments. III. Lastly, the third lesson that these grey stones preach to us is, Recognise by whose power you conquer. The banner, I suppose, to us English people, suggests a false idea.
Though Paul was mad, exceeding mad against Jesus Christ of Nazareth; yea, though he was his avowed enemy, seeking to put out his name from under heaven, yet the voice from heaven, 'I am Jesus, &c., 'I am the Saviour, how did it conquer him, make him throw down his arms, fall down at his feet, and accept of the forgiveness of sins freely by grace, through redemption by faith in his blood! Third.
Were it not wiser for us to step aside and watch until a certain time how rottenness is multiplying and choking those that are strangers to us? They cannot conquer it, they have not the means to do it. Then they will turn to us and say: 'Pray, help us, gentlemen! and we'll tell them: 'Let us have room for our work!
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