Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
“Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.”
“One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.”