The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to WaterlooBentley, 1862 - Всего страниц: 639 |
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... race was on the side of the Asiatic against the European . Asia was the original seat of human societies , and long before any trace can be found of the inhabit- ants of the rest of the world having emerged from the rudest barbarism ...
... race was on the side of the Asiatic against the European . Asia was the original seat of human societies , and long before any trace can be found of the inhabit- ants of the rest of the world having emerged from the rudest barbarism ...
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... race has dwelt almost unconnected with the other portions , all the great kingdoms , which we know to have existed in ancient Asia , were , in Darius's time , blended into the Persian . The northern Indians , the Assyrians , the Syrians ...
... race has dwelt almost unconnected with the other portions , all the great kingdoms , which we know to have existed in ancient Asia , were , in Darius's time , blended into the Persian . The northern Indians , the Assyrians , the Syrians ...
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... races of man- kind . The infant energies of Europe would have been trodden out beneath universal conquest , and the history of the world , Like the history of Asia , have become a mere record of the rise and fall of despotic dynasties ...
... races of man- kind . The infant energies of Europe would have been trodden out beneath universal conquest , and the history of the world , Like the history of Asia , have become a mere record of the rise and fall of despotic dynasties ...
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... races who served in their motley ranks . Mountaineers from Hyrcania and Afghanistan , wild horsemen from the steppes of ... race , or military system . Still , among them there were many gallant men , under a veteran general ; they were ...
... races who served in their motley ranks . Mountaineers from Hyrcania and Afghanistan , wild horsemen from the steppes of ... race , or military system . Still , among them there were many gallant men , under a veteran general ; they were ...
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... race . As for expense , we reckoned that each conquered state would give us supplies of money and provisions sufficient to pay for its own conquest , and furnish the means for the con- quest of its neighbors . " Such are the designs of ...
... race . As for expense , we reckoned that each conquered state would give us supplies of money and provisions sufficient to pay for its own conquest , and furnish the means for the con- quest of its neighbors . " Such are the designs of ...
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Стр. 245 - Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Стр. 245 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
Стр. 362 - It abounds in new information, and, as a first work, commands a very cordial recognition, not merely of the promise it gives, but of the extent and importance of the labor actually performed on it. — London Examiner. Mr. Motley's "History" is a work of which any country might be proud.— Press (London).
Стр. 129 - Then leave the poor Plebeian his single tie to life — The sweet, sweet love of daughter, of sister, and of wife, The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures, The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours. Still let the maiden's beauty swell the father's breast with pride ; Still let the bridegroom's arms enfold an unpolluted bride.
Стр. 321 - This article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampments, they will rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter.
Стр. 245 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman ; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too...
Стр. 259 - ... landed, being very many in number, were, notwithstanding, broken, slain, and taken; and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where Her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain...
Стр. 245 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Стр. 301 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Стр. 135 - Maneat, quaeso, duretque gentibus, si non amor nostri, at certe odium sui, quando urgentibus imperii fatis nihil iam praestare Fortuna maius potest quam hostium discordiam.