war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort [Fr.], guerre a outrance [Fr.]; open war, internecine war, civil war.

But whatever thought, general or special, this first verse may be dismissing, we come at once thereafter into the light of a definite question: 'Which is noblerto endure evil fortune, or to oppose it à outrance; to bear in passivity, or to resist where resistance is hopelessresist to the lastto the death which is its unavoidable end?'