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" Nothing can convince tyrants of their folly but gunpowder and steel, so put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry. "
The ballad poetry of Ireland. Ed. by C.G. Duffy. 4th ed - Page 85
edited by - 1845 - 252 pages
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 2

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...labour than The idlest and most slothful man. Pacem orare manu praefigere puppibus arma ( Virgil) — Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Pares non paribus, facillime congregentur (Cicero) — Two of a kind, whate'er they be, Are very certain...
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Proverbial folk-lore, by the author of Songs of solace

Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 pages
...stumble yourself. This is rather like William the Third's famous advice at the Battle of the Boyne. Put your trust in God, my boys, And keep your powder dry. The Dutch have a saying that is full of force and character, Painting and whitewashing cost nothing....
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Proverbial Folk-lore

Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 pages
...stumble yourself. This is rather like William the Third's famous advice at the Battle of the Boyne. Put your trust in God, my boys, And keep your powder dry. The Dutch have a saying that is full of force and character, which the late Lord Palmerston was fond...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Sporting. Vol. \\. p. 271. When in doubt, win the trick. Hoyle, Twenty-four Rules for Learners. Rule 12. Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Colonel Blacker, Oliver's Advice. 1834. There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain...
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New Ireland, Volume 2

Alexander Martin Sullivan - 1877 - 428 pages
...Dublin Nationalists, tolerate this West-British faction to demoralise your manhood again ? Never ! " Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry." Whether it was that the Orangemen trusted to the Fenians to do the work, while the Fenians relied on...
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New Ireland

Alexander Martin Sullivan - 1878 - 544 pages
...Dublin Nationalists, tolerate this West-British faction to demoralize your manhood again? Never I ' Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.' " Whether it was that the Orangemen trusted to the Fenians to do the work, while the Fenians relied...
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P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, Æneis. With a comm. and appendices ...

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1879 - 826 pages
...says, 'Aide toi, et le ciel t'aidera,' which Cromwell expressed virtually when he said to his men, 'Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.' 461. Bisalt-чо, a Thracian tribe on the Strymon. | Geloni, a Sarmatian tribe. 463. Horace says of...
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In Cupid's wars, Volume 3

Charles Gibbon - 1884 - 350 pages
...the object of their journey to be content with their slow progress. CHAPTER XVI. A FRIEND IN COURT. Already see the star of hope emits its orient blaze,...cheering beacon of relief it glimmers thro' the haze. Oliver's Advice. iHEY were not far from their destination, and Conolly hailed with a shout of delight...
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Eighty-five Years of Irish History: 1800-1885

William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1888 - 448 pages
...join you now, treat as an enemy ; Fear not O'Connell — Mathew — Devil ! but let your motto be, To put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Remember Gideon's chosen few, The arm that guarded them guards you. This delirious melange of politics,...
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The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 33

1918 - 840 pages
...Photograph by US Navy Department ON THE TARGET RANGE. NAVAL TRAINING STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND "Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry," was Cromwell's famous admonition. The American officer adds, "and learn to aim straight ;" for, with...
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