Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 76
... thousands of these house- hold enemies . Lastly , the mode in which military operations were conducted during the prosperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of an efficient militia . Men covered with iron ...
... thousands of these house- hold enemies . Lastly , the mode in which military operations were conducted during the prosperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of an efficient militia . Men covered with iron ...
Pagina 78
... Thousands of pri- soners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less danger- ous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character Men grew old ...
... Thousands of pri- soners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less danger- ous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character Men grew old ...
Pagina 82
... thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a ...
... thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a ...
Pagina 83
... thousand other questions of the same description , are in themselves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse ns , but the decision leaves us no wiser . alone reads history aright who , observing how power- fully circumstances influence the ...
... thousand other questions of the same description , are in themselves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse ns , but the decision leaves us no wiser . alone reads history aright who , observing how power- fully circumstances influence the ...
Pagina 96
... thousands in the caverns to which it had fled for safety . Such were the cruelties which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people among whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle was the loss ...
... thousands in the caverns to which it had fled for safety . Such were the cruelties which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people among whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle was the loss ...
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