The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldAt the University Press, 1829 - English literature |
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... land ; saying , that it belonged unto neither of them , but unto the Romans them- selves . If therefore it be demanded , whether the Macedonian or the Roman were the best warrior ; I will answer , the Englishman . For it will soon ...
... land ; saying , that it belonged unto neither of them , but unto the Romans them- selves . If therefore it be demanded , whether the Macedonian or the Roman were the best warrior ; I will answer , the Englishman . For it will soon ...
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... lands which they held were abundant of riches . Sicily , Spain , and all Greece fell into her hands , by using her aid to protect them against the Carthaginians and Macedonians . I shall not need to speak of her other conquests ; it was ...
... lands which they held were abundant of riches . Sicily , Spain , and all Greece fell into her hands , by using her aid to protect them against the Carthaginians and Macedonians . I shall not need to speak of her other conquests ; it was ...
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... land , than we could make upon France , transporting our forces over sea . It is usual with men that have pleased themselves , in ad- miring the matters which they find in ancient histories , to hold it a great injury done to their ...
... land , than we could make upon France , transporting our forces over sea . It is usual with men that have pleased themselves , in ad- miring the matters which they find in ancient histories , to hold it a great injury done to their ...
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... land of them as she could com- pass with an ox hide . On the west side it had also the salt sea , but in the nature of a standing pool ; for a certain arm of land , fastened to the ground on which the city stood , stretched itself ...
... land of them as she could com- pass with an ox hide . On the west side it had also the salt sea , but in the nature of a standing pool ; for a certain arm of land , fastened to the ground on which the city stood , stretched itself ...
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... land are the freest of all the world ; and reason good ; for of them have the bodies of our victorious armies been compounded . And it is the free- man , and not the slave , that hath courage , and the sense of shame de- served by ...
... land are the freest of all the world ; and reason good ; for of them have the bodies of our victorious armies been compounded . And it is the free- man , and not the slave , that hath courage , and the sense of shame de- served by ...
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Achæans Achaia adventure Æmilius Ætolians Afric afterwards Agathocles ambassadors Amilcar Antigonus Aratus arms army Asdrubal Athenians battle beaten besieged better Boii camp Campans Cannæ captains Capua Carthage Carthaginians cause Celtiberians citizens Cleomenes commanded consul danger defend Demetrius desire enemy Fabius fear fell fight fleet forces friends galleys garrison Gauls gave gotten Greece Hannibal Hanno haste hath Hereupon honour hope hundred Iberus Illyrians Italy king Lacedæmonians land legions less Lilybæum Livy Macedon Macedonian Mago Mamertines Marcellus Masinissa Matho mercenaries Messana Numidians overthrow pass peace Polybius pretor prince prisoners quinqueremes ready rest Rome Saguntines Saguntum saith Scipio senate sent serve shewed Sicily side siege slain soldiers Spain Spaniards Spendius spoil stood succour Syphax Syracuse Syracusians taken thaginians thence thereby thither thought thousand foot thousand horse took town unto the Romans vanquished victory Wherefore wherein whereof whilst
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Page 152 - And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
Page 143 - Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 142 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 80 - The Spaniards had an army aboard them, and he had none; they had more ships than he had, and of higher building and charging; so that, had he entangled himself with those great and powerful vessels, he had greatly endangered...
Page 99 - Folkestone, that is somewhat equally distant from them both; as also that two of these troops (unless some other order be thought more fit) be directed to strengthen the third, when they shall see the enemy's fleet to...
Page 7 - If any man impute these victories of ours to the longbow, as carrying further, piercing more strongly, and quicker of discharge than the French crossbow, my answer is ready — that in all these respects it is also (being drawn with a strong arm) superior to the musket, yet is the musket a weapon of more use. The gun and the crossbow are of like force when discharged by a boy or woman as when by a strong man. Weakness or sickness, or a sore finger makes the longbow unserviceable. More particularly,...
Page 209 - And yet did that worthy gentleman count Lodowick of Nassau, brother to the late famous prince of Orange, make the retreat at Moncontour with so great resolution, as he saved the one half of the protestant army, then broken and disbanded, of which myself was an eyewitness; and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it.
Page 439 - Africans, by whom he was so sharply entertained that the victory seemed very doubtful. The Africans and Spaniards were stout soldiers, and well acquainted with the manner of the Roman fight. The Ligurians, also, were a hardy nation, and not accustomed to give ground, which they needed the less, or were able now to do, being placed in the midst. Livius, therefore, and Porcius found great opposition ; and with great slaughter on both sides prevailed little or nothing.
Page 112 - I cannot forbear to commend the patient virtue of the Spaniards. We seldom or never find that any nation hath endured so many misadventures and miseries as the Spaniards have done in their Indian discoveries; yet persisting in their enterprises with invincible constancy, they have annexed to their kingdom so many goodly provinces as bury the remembrance of all dangers past.
Page 100 - Again, when those troops lodged on the sea-shores shall be forced to run from place to place in vain, after a fleet of ships, they will at length sit down in the midway and leave all at adventure. But say it were otherwise, that the invading enemy will offer to land in some such place where there shall be an army of ours ready to receive him ; yet it cannot be doubted but that when the choice of all our trained bands, and the choice of our commanders and captains, shall be drawn together (as they...