 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
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 стор.
...rudiments of the language and science of tactics, which opened a new field of study and observation. The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...captain of the Hampshire grenadiers, (the reader may rinile,) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." — Miscellaneous Works, vol.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 698 стор.
...and de Retz are obvious examples. Gibbon, speaking of his service with the Hampshire militia, says, 'The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.' And in another place of the autobiography : ' The eight sessions that I sat in Parliament... | |
 | 1868 - 808 стор.
...in his great literary work, — " the discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," says he, " gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion,...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire" — we may presume Dr. Motley will feel it no disparagement to his labors, to be reminded... | |
 | 1868 - 820 стор.
...in his great literary work, — " the discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," says he, " gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion,...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire" — we may presume Dr. Motley will feel it no disparagement to his labors, to be reminded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 562 стор.
...Gibbon, in his auto-biography, speaking of his experience as a volunteer captain of militia, says, " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." In like manner, Professor Felton's life in the midst of a cultivated and excitable democracy,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 586 стор.
...Gibbon, in his auto-biography, speaking of his experience as a volunteer captain of militia, says, " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 стор.
...military leaders of the Roman em~ pire. " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," he says, " gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." On the other hand, no intellect can be so acute, and no imagination can be so .active,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 408 стор.
...military leaders of the Roman empire. " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," he says, " gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." On the other hand, no intellect can be so acute, and no imagination can be so active,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 стор.
...military leaders of the Roman empire. " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion," he says, " gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion;...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire." On the other hand, no intellect can be so acute, and no imagination can be so active,... | |
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