The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies and Conquests; from the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volúmenes7-8

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820
 

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Página 14 - It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few ; and with the God of heaven it is all one to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company ; For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host, but strength cometh from heaven.
Página 292 - Cicero his many and great imperfections ; and seduced an honest citizen and the finest genius in Rome, a man of unparalleled industry, and that generally applied to the noblest purposes, into the prostitution of his abilities and virtues for exalting an ambitious chief, and investing him with such exorbitant and unconstitutional powers, as virtually subverted the commonwealth.
Página 81 - Maximus melius! de quo Ennius: Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem: Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem. Ergo postque magisque viri nunc gloria claret.
Página 80 - He led his Africans to the gates of Rome, where he found three armies in order of battle, prepared to receive him; but Hannibal dreaded the event of a combat from which he could not hope to escape, unless he destroyed the last of his enemies; and his speedy retreat confessed the invincible courage of the Romans.
Página 123 - Tryphon, he hastened across the Euphrates to put himself at the head of the insurgents in Upper Asia. Several battles are said have been gained by him ; for the voluntary flights of the Parthians were probably construed into defeats. But the incidents related of his campaign are few and doubtful, though the issue of it is certain, that he was taken prisoner by the Parthians, and retained by them ten years in a loose and honourable captivity.
Página 327 - ... shall accept my son, from his hands, as the highest personal favour ; and shall be ready to repay him by every personal service in my power. But, as to public affairs, I can do nothing for his interest, except by giving him this one advice, that he accept any terms of peace however unreasonable they may appear to him.
Página 98 - ... nineteenth-century historians of Scotland, the precedence, at all events by right of seniority, must be accorded to Patrick Fraser Tytler, who was a joint founder of the Bannatyne club with Scott, and had been a college friend of Archibald Alison. Tytler had historian's blood in his veins1, and many years of his life were devoted to the composition of his History of Scotland (1828 — 43), an undertaking first suggested to him by Scott The History plunges in medias res with the accession of...

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