Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 49
... military usurper seems , no doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted ...
... military usurper seems , no doubt , at first sight , extraordinary . But all the circumstances in which the country was then placed were extraordinary . The ambition of Oliver was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted ...
Page 57
... military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one ...
... military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one ...
Page 80
... military service . However remote may be the expedition on which he is bound , he finds it easy to transport with him the stock from which he derives his subsistence . The whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the ...
... military service . However remote may be the expedition on which he is bound , he finds it easy to transport with him the stock from which he derives his subsistence . The whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the ...
Page 81
... military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
... military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
Page 82
... military operations were conducted during the pro- sperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of an efficient militia . Men covered with iron from head to foot , armed with ponderous lances , and mounted on ...
... military operations were conducted during the pro- sperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of an efficient militia . Men covered with iron from head to foot , armed with ponderous lances , and mounted on ...
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