Thus advantaged, if it can at all exist, it must finally prevail.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
I have sometimes turned aside the axis of the earth, and sometimes varied the ecliptic of the sun, but I have found it impossible to make a disposition by which the world may be advantaged; what one region gains another loses by an imaginable alteration, even without considering the distant parts of the solar system with which we are acquainted.
"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"
Samuel Johnson
This, however, above all advantaged him, for the enemy, from contemning of him, fell into disorder amongst themselves, being already less thoroughly under command, on account of the number of their leaders.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh