 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 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.2 l[Post, p. 168; and Auto., p. 189.] '[Gibbon, recording in his journal his study of... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 стор.
...Devizes and Winchester, and Southampton and Dover and other places, gaining useful experience thereby. The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. Early in 1764 he started on his travels, passing through Paris and Lausanne and Florence,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 254 стор.
...describe in after years the campaigns of Eoman generals, he found, to quote his own phrase, that " the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Eoman Empire." Thus There's a divinity doth shape our ends, Rough hew them how we will. At the conclusion... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 стор.
...to describe in after years the campaigns of Eoman generals, he found, to quote his own phrase, that "the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Eoman Empire." Thus There's a divinity doth shape our ends, Rough hew them how we will. At the conclusion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 528 стор.
...(loth May, 1760, to 23rd December, 1762) to a wandering life of military servitude." But he adds : "The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Gibbon was member for Liskeard from 1775 to 1783 (see Gibbon, Memoirs of My I.ife and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 522 стор.
...(loth May, 176o, to 23rd December, 1762) to a wandering life of military servitude." But he adds : " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of thr phalanx'and'the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader may smile) has... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1907 - 394 стор.
...subordination." And if the regiment owed much to Gibbon, Gibbon owed something to the regiment : — " A familiar view of the discipline and evolutions of...useless to the Historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." At the end of 1762 the regiment was at last disembodied, and Gibbon at once resolved... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1907 - 416 стор.
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legions ; and the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." When, finally, his father died in 1770, the fates had once more been signally propitious.... | |
 | 1907 - 922 стор.
...from 1885 to 1895.* Gibbon, after describing his military experiences, said, in an oft-quoted passage, "the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Unquestionably Mr. Paul has acquired a firmer grasp of the mechanism of political life... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 550 стор.
...of Quintus Icilius', and it is in this connexion that he writes : — 'The discipline and evolution of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of...legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers... has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire'*. He also studied Homer and ' Longinus'7,... | |
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