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" O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. "
“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr ... - Page 115
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Gitana [signed Sophie].

Sophia Briggs - 1845 - 988 pages
...found her fair young mistress pale and lifeless. And it was thus they parted. CHAPTER XV. " Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphureous bolt, Split' st the unwedgeable and gnarled...
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Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy

Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...ore, Rut wisdom— none can borrow, none can lirtd?" THR ARCS! OT ALTHOKiTY. O. it is excellent Tc have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant Could great men thumler As Jove liJim-l! dors, Jove would ne'er t«e quiet j for every pt-It.m*. petty...
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Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry: Proceedings of the 4th KIAS Annual ...

Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...tyrant" (3.2.187-9). Isabella seems to think that tyranny consists of employing disproportionate power: "O, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it as a giant" (2.2.108-10). We might imagine Hobbes replying, "No, my dear, this is just what Leviathan...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham Lincoln "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." — Shakespeare "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our...
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Responding to Homeland Threats: Is Our Government Organized for the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 2002 - 112 pages
...riches without integrity are unavailing, so power without wisdom is unworthy. As Shakespeare put it: O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. J The strategy outlined here for US national security differs from the strategic habits of the past...
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Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard ...

2002 - 298 pages
...expressive of the great humanist ideal of individuality embodied in Shakespeare's work (Kaufmann 1960). O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.107-9) They that have the power to hurt and will do none, That do not do...
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Sams Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting in 24 Hours

Jonathan Feldman - 2003 - 530 pages
...Look at the trace: does it tell you anything? HOUR 22 Network Troubles hooters Just Wanna Have Fun O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. — William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II, 2 Let's say that you've been tasked by your boss...
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The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism, Together with ...

George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 pages
...And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. And this perhaps the best of all : O ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. . . . Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty...
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War After September 11

Verna V. Gehring - 2003 - 116 pages
...responsibility. When external restraints are weak, self-restraint is essential. In the words of Shakespeare, O! it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Traditional Paradigms and their Limits I The Ethics of Retaliation Judith Lichtenberg From the very...
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Shakespeare and Religion: Essays of Forty Years

G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...judgement, should But judge you as you are? (ll. ii. 73) In any official position man is merely comic: O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant . . . Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His...
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