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" ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. "
Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Page 68
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 186 pages
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 36; Volume 70

1840 - 612 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 38

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing at accession of authority to the tide either of religion...thinker. He was merely a man of lively parts and q 7* during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

1852 - 780 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing ns which had been generated by during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his Iroops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...own. Before him lay a river over which it was. easy lo advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever relurn. On Ihis...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 pages
...and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous аз soon became a most unpopular class of men. Some of...and rendered great lervices to the state ; but at h (his occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 3-4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...in his own military talents, and in the valour and discipline of his troops, it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his...first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council...
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