The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... believe I was the first to call attention to the curious analo- gies between the tactics of Alexander and those of Cromwell . Each lived in an age when heavy cavalry were found to be supe- rior to infantry , if kept in control , and ...
... believe I was the first to call attention to the curious analo- gies between the tactics of Alexander and those of Cromwell . Each lived in an age when heavy cavalry were found to be supe- rior to infantry , if kept in control , and ...
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... believe , and no man may put them out of this opinion . These beasts they take when they are young , and nourish them thus with alms , as many as they may find . And I asked them if it had not been better to have given that relief to ...
... believe , and no man may put them out of this opinion . These beasts they take when they are young , and nourish them thus with alms , as many as they may find . And I asked them if it had not been better to have given that relief to ...
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... believe , Master Hauchecorne , that Monsieur Malandain , who is a man deserving of credit , mis- took this string for a wallet . " The peasant , in a rage , raised his hand , spit to one side to pledge his honor , and said : - " It's ...
... believe , Master Hauchecorne , that Monsieur Malandain , who is a man deserving of credit , mis- took this string for a wallet . " The peasant , in a rage , raised his hand , spit to one side to pledge his honor , and said : - " It's ...
Page 65
... believe that its inhabitants hold their broad valleys in fee simple from nature herself . Yesterday I saw Kory - Kory hie him away , armed with a long pole , with which , standing on the ground , he knocked down the fruit from the ...
... believe that its inhabitants hold their broad valleys in fee simple from nature herself . Yesterday I saw Kory - Kory hie him away , armed with a long pole , with which , standing on the ground , he knocked down the fruit from the ...
Page 97
... believe that they had a right to go and come , to sell and buy , and even suspected , in the excess of their presumptuousness , that men might chance to be equal . Up to this time , this formidable notion of equality had never been ...
... believe that they had a right to go and come , to sell and buy , and even suspected , in the excess of their presumptuousness , that men might chance to be equal . Up to this time , this formidable notion of equality had never been ...
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