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Términos y frases comunes
Achæans Achaia adventure Æmilius Afric afterwards Agathocles ambassadors Amilcar Antigonus Aratus arms army Asdrubal Athenians battle beaten besieged better Boii camp Campans Cannæ captains Capua Carthage Carthaginians cause Celtiberians citizens Cleomenes command consul danger defend Demetrius desire enemy Etolians Fabius fear fell fight fleet forces friends galleys garrison Gauls gave gotten Greece Hannibal Hanno haste hath Hereupon honour hope hundred Iberus Illyrians Italy king Lacedæmonians land late legions less Lilybæum Livy Macedon Macedonian Mago Mamertines Marcellus Masinissa Matho mercenaries Messana Numidians overthrow pass peace Polybius pretor prince prisoners quinqueremes ready rest Rome Saguntines Saguntum saith Scipio senate sent serve shewed Sicily side siege slain soldiers Spain Spaniards Spendius spoil stood succour Syphax Syracuse Syracusians taken thaginians thence thereby thither thought thousand foot thousand horse took town unto the Romans victory Wherefore wherein whereof whilst
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Página 154 - And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
Página 100 - England, without the help of her fleet, be able to debar an enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do, and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first victory to an enemy, and the discouragement of being beaten to the invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence.
Página 145 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 211 - And yet did that worthy gentleman count Lodowick of Nassau, brother to the late famous prince of Orange, make the retreat at Moncontour with so great resolution, as he saved the one half of the protestant army, then broken and disbanded, of which myself was an eyewitness; and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it.
Página 82 - The Spaniards had an army aboard them, and he had none; they had more ships than he had, and of higher building and charging; so that, had he entangled himself with those great and powerful vessels, he had greatly endangered...
Página 145 - Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Página 9 - If any man impute these victories of ours to the longbow, as carrying further, piercing more strongly, and quicker of discharge than the French crossbow, my answer is ready — that in all these respects it is also (being drawn with a strong arm) superior to the musket, yet is the musket a weapon of more use. The gun and the crossbow are of like force when discharged by a boy or woman as when by a strong man. Weakness or sickness, or a sore finger makes the longbow unserviceable. More particularly,...
Página 9 - PaulusAemilius, report wonders of our nation); the proposition which first I undertook to maintain, that the military virtue of the English prevailing against all manner of difficulties ought to be preferred before that of the Romans, which was assisted with all advantages that could be desired.
Página 9 - ... no common rule. If any man shall ask, how then came it to pass that the English won so many great battles, having no advantage to help him ? I may, with best...
Página 114 - I cannot forbear to commend the patient virtue of the Spaniards. We seldom or never find that any nation hath endured so many misadventures and miseries as the Spaniards have done in their Indian discoveries; yet persisting in their enterprises with invincible constancy, they have annexed to their kingdom so many goodly provinces as bury the remembrance of all dangers past.