The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Količina 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 strani |
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Stran 6
... gives us a lively picture of camp life , showing how closely the fleet and the army co - operated . The soldiers and mariners would meet together in camp , and tell each other the adventures they had encountered , and the marvels they ...
... gives us a lively picture of camp life , showing how closely the fleet and the army co - operated . The soldiers and mariners would meet together in camp , and tell each other the adventures they had encountered , and the marvels they ...
Stran 7
... gives a lively sketch of the effect of this success on the demoralised Roman army . It caused a revulsion from despondency to exultation and bravado so extravagant as to be little consistent with our notion of the disciplined stoicism ...
... gives a lively sketch of the effect of this success on the demoralised Roman army . It caused a revulsion from despondency to exultation and bravado so extravagant as to be little consistent with our notion of the disciplined stoicism ...
Stran 9
... give his contribution as well as the cultivated Roman . How much more valuable would it have been to us had Tacitus deigned to tell us something about the tongue in which the leader of the barbarians spoke , or even his name , and the ...
... give his contribution as well as the cultivated Roman . How much more valuable would it have been to us had Tacitus deigned to tell us something about the tongue in which the leader of the barbarians spoke , or even his name , and the ...
Stran 11
... give point to the aim of composition in the modern languages.1 In later times , when the terrible retribution it received has given emphasis to the cruel injustice of Roman domination , no one has given such expression to its character ...
... give point to the aim of composition in the modern languages.1 In later times , when the terrible retribution it received has given emphasis to the cruel injustice of Roman domination , no one has given such expression to its character ...
Stran 13
... gives a picturesque description of his abbot finding him at such unprofitable work , and re- buking him for wasting upon empty vanities and self - willed fancies the time , all too short , that should be dedicated to the proper ...
... gives a picturesque description of his abbot finding him at such unprofitable work , and re- buking him for wasting upon empty vanities and self - willed fancies the time , all too short , that should be dedicated to the proper ...
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Stran 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.