A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1 |
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... death in disastrous engagements , and in a vain attempt to force a retreat into the interior of the island , became prisoners of war . Nicias and Demosthenes were put to death in cold blood ; and their men either perished miserably in ...
... death in disastrous engagements , and in a vain attempt to force a retreat into the interior of the island , became prisoners of war . Nicias and Demosthenes were put to death in cold blood ; and their men either perished miserably in ...
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... death . Xenophon , who had been a volunteer in the expedition , was chosen com- mander ; and the retreat was continued by the Greeks for a distance of more than 1,500 miles , amid incredible hardships from cold , hunger , and the ...
... death . Xenophon , who had been a volunteer in the expedition , was chosen com- mander ; and the retreat was continued by the Greeks for a distance of more than 1,500 miles , amid incredible hardships from cold , hunger , and the ...
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... death that was worthy of the son of Hamilcar and the brother of Hannibal . Success the most complete had crowned Nero's enterprise . Returning as rapidly as he had advanced , he was again facing the inactive enemies in the south ...
... death that was worthy of the son of Hamilcar and the brother of Hannibal . Success the most complete had crowned Nero's enterprise . Returning as rapidly as he had advanced , he was again facing the inactive enemies in the south ...
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... death . He was finally betrayed by his own father - in - law , brought in chains to Rome to grace the triumph of the Consul Marius , confined in a dungeon , and starved to death . At this time hordes of barbarians , called the Cimbrians ...
... death . He was finally betrayed by his own father - in - law , brought in chains to Rome to grace the triumph of the Consul Marius , confined in a dungeon , and starved to death . At this time hordes of barbarians , called the Cimbrians ...
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... death of Sylla renewed the civil war . Lep- idus , a man of mean abilities , aspired to succeed him in power ; and Pompey , with superior talents , cherished the same ambition . While the latter was employed in the reduction of the ...
... death of Sylla renewed the civil war . Lep- idus , a man of mean abilities , aspired to succeed him in power ; and Pompey , with superior talents , cherished the same ambition . While the latter was employed in the reduction of the ...
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Page 118 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 271 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 291 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 257 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Page 258 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Page 260 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 444 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Page 291 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 507 - After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that " The troops under General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms and artillery were to be left.
Page 439 - Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of