He far preferred glorious deeds involving sunken treasures and Indian scalps.
Although I started off trying to perform glorious deeds, I quickly became a madman bent on world conquest.
You can choose to bring glory to your empire either by performing glorious deeds or by taking over the world.
We prefer to savor the glorious deeds of the Revolution or the resonant words of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
In short, the western knights' glorious deeds, recorded in such lavish style by medieval historians and celebrated ever since, provided a cover story that only now has been revealed.
The work extols the glorious deeds of the Portuguese and their victories over the enemies of Christianity: victories not only over their fellowman but also over the forces of nature as motivated by the inimical gods of classical mythology.
It is an intangible benefit, though, and Murray has finally tapped into it after many years of wondering firstly if it was there and then, after his glorious deeds in 2012, whether it would remain intact.
The Old Testament and New Testament, reflecting the influence of Hebrew poetry, contain many striking examples of parallelism, as in the following lines from the Psalms: "but they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues" (Psalms 78 36); "we will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord" (78 4).
A later edition includes, by way of appendix, a spoof of Smith's well-known epitaph: Tread softly (mortalls) ore the bones Of the worlds wonder Captaine Jones: Who told his glorious deeds to many, But never was believ'd of any: Posterity let this suffice, He swore all's true, yet here he lyes.
And it is precisely for this reason, Arendt points out, that the Greeks valued poetry and history so highly, because they rescued the glorious (as well as the less glorious) deeds of the past for the benefit of future generations (HC, 192 ff; BPF, 63 75).
