Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to 'Elegant Extracts in Poetry'.J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Pàgina 616
... forces which may harrafs him with perpetual in- curfions . Talk not of your ten thousands , or twenty thoufands of foreigners ; of thofe armies which appear fo magnificent on paper ; but let them be the natural forces of the ftate : and ...
... forces which may harrafs him with perpetual in- curfions . Talk not of your ten thousands , or twenty thoufands of foreigners ; of thofe armies which appear fo magnificent on paper ; but let them be the natural forces of the ftate : and ...
Pàgina 617
... force might be really Athenian ? And yet , for an expedition in favour of Lemnos , the general must be a citizen , while troops , engaged in defence of our own territories , are commanded by Menelaus . I fay not this to detract from his ...
... force might be really Athenian ? And yet , for an expedition in favour of Lemnos , the general must be a citizen , while troops , engaged in defence of our own territories , are commanded by Menelaus . I fay not this to detract from his ...
Pàgina 618
... forces . It is your part then to confider this , and not to carry on the war by occafional detach- ments , ( they will ever arrive too late ) but by a regular army conftantly kept up . And for winter - quarters you may command Lemnos ...
... forces . It is your part then to confider this , and not to carry on the war by occafional detach- ments , ( they will ever arrive too late ) but by a regular army conftantly kept up . And for winter - quarters you may command Lemnos ...
Pàgina 619
... forces thither ; if in Ther- mopyle , thither ; if in any other place , you hurry up and down , you follow his Itandard . But ... force , now , fince we have not hitherto ? -But where fhall we make our defcent ? -Let us but engage in the ...
... forces thither ; if in Ther- mopyle , thither ; if in any other place , you hurry up and down , you follow his Itandard . But ... force , now , fince we have not hitherto ? -But where fhall we make our defcent ? -Let us but engage in the ...
Pàgina 620
... forces had beñeged and taken from the Athenians . But the Olyn- thians could not be influenced by gra- titude towards fuch a benefactor . The rapid progrefs of his arms , and his glaring acts of perfidy , alarmed them exceedingly . He ...
... forces had beñeged and taken from the Athenians . But the Olyn- thians could not be influenced by gra- titude towards fuch a benefactor . The rapid progrefs of his arms , and his glaring acts of perfidy , alarmed them exceedingly . He ...
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