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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... soldiers to go to Caesarea , and horsemen three score and ten , and spearmen two hundred , at the third hour of the night ; and provide them beasts , that they may set Paul on , and bring him safe unto Felix the governor " . And he ...
... soldiers to go to Caesarea , and horsemen three score and ten , and spearmen two hundred , at the third hour of the night ; and provide them beasts , that they may set Paul on , and bring him safe unto Felix the governor " . And he ...
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... soldiers lost their lives on that occasion . Some of the enemy too , who had collected themselves into a body , pursued our rear , and seized any of the baggage - cattle that were unable to proceed , fighting with one another for the ...
... soldiers lost their lives on that occasion . Some of the enemy too , who had collected themselves into a body , pursued our rear , and seized any of the baggage - cattle that were unable to proceed , fighting with one another for the ...
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... soldiers who were marshalled round Neerwinden under all the standards of Western Europe , the two feeblest in body were the hunch- backed dwarf who urged forward the fiery onset of France , and the asthmatic skeleton who covered the ...
... soldiers who were marshalled round Neerwinden under all the standards of Western Europe , the two feeblest in body were the hunch- backed dwarf who urged forward the fiery onset of France , and the asthmatic skeleton who covered the ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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