“… for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
Source: The Origin of Species
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XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.
“When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.”
Canto III, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.”
It is believed that Skanderbeg said on his death
“The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.”
It is believed that Skanderbeg said on his death
Source: Alphonse de Lamartine (Ottoman History)
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.
Context: p>Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Whose glosses do not blind our reason, but
Make it to see the clearer, and who shut
Its passages from hatred, avarice,
Pride, factions, covenants, and all sort of vice.
Come, settle here a charitable faith,
Which neighbourly affection nourisheth.
And whose light chaseth all corrupters hence,
Of the blest word, from the aforesaid sense.The holy sacred Word,
May it always afford
T' us all in common,
Both man and woman,
A spiritual shield and sword,
The holy sacred Word.</p
La France fut faite à coups d'épée. La fleur de lys, symbole d'unité nationale, n'est que l'image d'un javelot à trois lances.
in La France et son armée.
Writings
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 24, 1923)
Letters