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... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
Side 37
... soldiers , who were bolder than the rest , advanced towards the figure . Amongst this party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a ...
... soldiers , who were bolder than the rest , advanced towards the figure . Amongst this party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a ...
Side 40
... soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to ... soldier , who , from youth upwards , passes his life in camps , could the duties or the interests of citizens ...
... soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to ... soldier , who , from youth upwards , passes his life in camps , could the duties or the interests of citizens ...
Side 41
... soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
... soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
Side 50
... soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay - and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more opulent undertaking for the ...
... soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay - and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more opulent undertaking for the ...
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