Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Pagina 45
... 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 ...
Pagina 52
... military affairs a cool- ness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the neces- sary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on ...
... military affairs a cool- ness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the neces- sary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on ...
Pagina 74
... 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 ...
Pagina 76
... military spirit declined with their singular institu- tions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Etolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
... military spirit declined with their singular institu- tions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Etolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in ...
Pagina 77
... military establishments . Un- happily this was not done . The mercenary warriors of the Peninsula , instead of being attached to the ser- vice of different powers , were regarded as the common property of all . The connection between ...
... military establishments . Un- happily this was not done . The mercenary warriors of the Peninsula , instead of being attached to the ser- vice of different powers , were regarded as the common property of all . The connection between ...
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