 The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.  Putnam's Monthly and the Reader - Page 7501907Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. « unveiled to my eyes her naked deformity. How often did I sigh for my proper station in society and... | |
 | Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pages
...before the division of the by the euipcrori. .-.a... .a», in lui Èpù. ad Pierctkium et de Re Mi(the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roraai Empire*. Nor are the advantages of military science — considered as a part о education only... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. A youth of any spirit is fired even by the play of arms, and in the first sallies of my enthusiasm... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. — I A youth of any spirit is fired even by the play of arms, and in the first sallies of my enthusiasm... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. A youth of any spirit is fired even by the play of arms, and in the first sallies of my enthusiasm... | |
 | 334 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." * Mr Mitford doubtless derived similar advantage from his professional experience, in developing the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. A youth of any spirit is fired even by the play of arms, and in the first sallies of my enthusiasm... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 544 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." — Misc. Works, vol. ip 136. ed. 1814. you tell me of Prince Ferdinand and Count Dohna makes me all... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 516 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." — Misc. Worhs, vol. ip 136. cd. 1814. you tell me of Prince Ferdinand and Count Dohna makes me all... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - 1838 - 532 pages
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." — Misc. Works, vol. ip 136. ed. 1814. you tell me of Prince Ferdinand and Count Dohna makes me all... | |
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