If rapine be abolished, one of the encouragements to war is taken away; and peace therefore more likely to continue and be lasting.
It might have been more consistent with those virtues of rapine dominant of his nature, had he been hailed Paddy the Pirate, instead.
During those centuries of wars and brigandage the Nerowegs had fortified their castle, while they lived on rapine and on the extortion of their villeins and their serfs.
What's got by justice is established sure: No kingdoms got by rapine long endure.
Rapine has yet took nought from me; But if it please my God I be Brought at the last to th' utmost bit, God make me thankful still for it.
Injustice, cruelty, and rapine have always been the watchwords of the Transvaal Boers.
Tell me, has there been enough rapine and rape, Carnage and arson?
Untie the bonds of these brave contemners of the Church of Rome, the modern Babylon that is smirched with rapine and blood!
Of all the queen's ministers he alone left a considerable fortune to his posterity; a fortune not acquired by rapine or oppression, but gained by the regular profits of his offices, and preserved by frugality.
For in the year 1601, there were great complaints made in parliament of the rapine of justices of peace; and a member said, that this magistrate was an animal who, for half a dozen of chickens, would dispense with a dozen of penal statutes.
Rapine and insolence inflamed the hatred which prevailed between the conquerors and the conquered: want of security among the Irish, introducing despair, nourished still more the sloth natural to that uncultivated people.
But the dominion of the Barbarians was exercised only for the purposes of rapine and destruction.
He vanquished the monster of Libya, the president Andronicus, who abused the authority of a venal office, invented new modes of rapine and torture, and aggravated the guilt of oppression by that of sacrilege.
The favorites of Valens obtained, by the privilege of rapine and confiscation, the wealth which his economy would have refused.
As soon as the death of Julian had relieved the Barbarians from the terror of his name, the most sanguine hopes of rapine and conquest excited the nations of the East, of the North, and of the South.
They abused their fortune, without considering their past, or their future, condition; and their rapine and venality could be equalled only by the extravagance of their dissipations.
His unworthy favorites, enriched by the boundless liberality of their master, usurped with impunity the privilege of rapine and corruption.
The fields of Assyria were devoted by Julian to the calamities of war; and the philosopher retaliated on a guiltless people the acts of rapine and cruelty which had been committed by their haughty master in the Roman provinces.
At the head of a tumultuary band, suited for rapine rather than for conquest, he suddenly broke onto the dominions of Constans, by the way of the Julian Alps, and the country round Aquileia felt the first effects of his resentment.
The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refuse the payment of the accustomed subsidies.
There was no time to spend on any other than the details of their murderous plan; and these were made known to them with the rapidity of rapine itself.
It is probable, from this preponderance of the savage element in its composition, that the real purpose of the expedition was the rapine which it so successfully accomplished.
When the rapacious and mercenary assemble in parties, it is of no consequence under what leader they inlist, whether Cæsar or Pompey; the hopes of rapine or pay are the only motives from which they become attached to either.
There is no reason for reciting in full the countless deeds of rapine and murder.
He drew a picture of the rapine that was to follow, which surpassed everything I had ever believed possible.
But was the state of France so wretched and undone, that no other resource butrapine remained to preserve its existence?
But the many are not capable of making this calculation; and those who lead them to rapine never intend this distribution.
Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
At least there would have been but one of the many wars of murder and rapine between the republics, and that would have been the first.
