 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 389
...impossible, and without which a military class is impossible? Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe ( 1 884) 8 Oaths are but words, and words but wind, Too feeble implements to bind. Samuel Butler, Hudibras, 2, 2 ( 1663) 9 An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven: Shall I lay perjury... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1684 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...and forswear on occasion ; I doubt not, but it will appear, With pregnant light. The point is clear. Oaths are but words, and words but wind, Too feeble implements to bind; And hold with deeds proportion, so As shadows to a substance do. Then when they strive for place, 'tis... | |
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With pregnant light : The point is clear. Oaths are but words, and words but wind, Too feeble implements to bind, And hold with deeds proportion, so, As shadows to a substance do. 
