The World of Man: Prose Passages, Chiefly from the Works of the Great Historians, Classical and EnglishThe University Press, 1933 - 313 páginas |
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... army ? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and dis- cipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the ... army and your navy , and infuses into both that liberal obedience , without which your army would be a base rabble ...
... army ? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and dis- cipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the ... army and your navy , and infuses into both that liberal obedience , without which your army would be a base rabble ...
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... army's track . The men were already worn out and wearied with their many miseries , when a fall of snow coming with the setting of the Pleiades added to their sufferings a terrible fear . At daybreak the march commenced , and as the army ...
... army's track . The men were already worn out and wearied with their many miseries , when a fall of snow coming with the setting of the Pleiades added to their sufferings a terrible fear . At daybreak the march commenced , and as the army ...
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... army of Great Britain . The beardless regiments of Aldershot or the Curragh can no more compare with the masses of strong men , horse , foot and artillery , soldiers of whom no conscript army has seen the like , who hold India and Egypt ...
... army of Great Britain . The beardless regiments of Aldershot or the Curragh can no more compare with the masses of strong men , horse , foot and artillery , soldiers of whom no conscript army has seen the like , who hold India and Egypt ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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