Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . A Courage was now no longer necessary even to the mili- tary character . Men grew ...
... Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . A Courage was now no longer necessary even to the mili- tary character . Men grew ...
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... thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged . sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a ...
... thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged . sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to a ...
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... thousand other questions of the same description , are in themselves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright , who , observing how powerfully circumstances in- fluence ...
... thousand other questions of the same description , are in themselves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright , who , observing how powerfully circumstances in- fluence ...
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... thousands in the caverns to which they had fled for safety . Such were the scenes which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people , amongst whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle was the ...
... thousands in the caverns to which they had fled for safety . Such were the scenes which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people , amongst whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle was the ...
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... sacrifice . He seems to be transported back to the days , when eight hundred thousand Italian warriors sprung to arms at the rumour of a Gallic invasion . He breathes all the spirit of 98 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... sacrifice . He seems to be transported back to the days , when eight hundred thousand Italian warriors sprung to arms at the rumour of a Gallic invasion . He breathes all the spirit of 98 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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