Terrible he rode alone,
With his Yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.
The Death Feud. An Arab War-song.[811:8]
Footnotes
[807:1] Count Münster, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, discovered that Russian civilization is "merely artificial," and first published to Europe the short description of the Russian Constitution,—that it is "absolutism tempered by assassination."
[807:2] A Greek proverb. A Cadmean victory was one in which the victors suffered as much as their enemies.
Συμμισγόντων δὲ τῇ ναυμαχίῃ, Καδμείη τις νίκη τοῖσι Φωκαιεῦσι ἐγένετο.—Herodotus: i. 166.
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,