 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.  Scribner's Magazine ... - Сторінка 7261909Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 стор.
...military occupation to account. '" The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," he writes, "gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion;...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." When the war was ended by the treaty of Paris, in 1763, the militia was disbanded and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1875 - 474 стор.
...language and science of tactics, which opened a new field of study and observation. 1 Novum Organum. The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Empire." It is painful indeed to observe how many persons walk through life with an obtuse mind and... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 820 стор.
...a man of letters. Gibbon claimed to have derived even from his brief connection with the militia " a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion," and " the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers," he said, " has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." In a much higher degree must... | |
 | 1875 - 822 стор.
...and a man of letters. Gibbon claimed to have derived even from his brief connection with the militia "a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion," and " the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers," he said, " has not been useless to the historian of the lioman Empire." In a much higher degree must... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1876 - 460 стор.
...language and science of tactics, which opened a new field of study and observation. : Novum Organum. The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Empire." It is painful indeed to observe how many persons walk through life with an obtuse mind and... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1876 - 632 стор.
...Autobiography, a propos of his experiences in the Hampshire Volunteers, will not be forgotten : — ' The captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Koman Empire." 204 DEPARTURE FOR IRELAND. 1849 ' . . . I call a farewell to you to-day, before we take... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 стор.
...Quintus Icilius (Mr. Guichardt), the only writer who has united the merits of a professor and a veteran. The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not 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... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 стор.
...the only writer who has united the merits of a professor and a veteran. The discipline and evolution of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Eoman Empire." No one can doubt it who compares Gibbon's numerous narratives of military operations... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 стор.
...discipline and work of this life he turned to account in his literary labour, and he himself tells us that " the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." His regiment having been disbanded at the end of 1762, he spent a couple of years in... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1879 - 330 стор.
...him. We have all grown somewhat tired of hearing the words of Gibbon quoted in which he tells us that "the discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Assuredly the practical knowledge of politics which Grote acquired during the nine or... | |
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