[Ads-l] "War is Hell"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Yale" (1865)  seems to have read this book.

JL

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
00001aa1be50b751-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Peter Reitan wrote:
> > The book, The Helleniad, an Epic Poem, by George McHenry, published in
> 1850 (available in various online archives including HathiTrust), includes
> the lines,
> >
> > "Preferring hell to heaven: for war is hell, and peace is heaven even in
> this world."
>
> Yes, that is an interesting citation. It was mentioned by John Baker
> back in 2009:
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-January/087049.html
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>


-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org