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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... death , in the midst of turmoil within and foes without , sur- rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his ...
... death , in the midst of turmoil within and foes without , sur- rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his ...
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... death , or to corporal punishment and torture , free citizens and even nobles . It is equally certain that the kings often formally appealed to an assembly of soldiers or of peers ( éraîρo ) to decide in cases of life and death . Such ...
... death , or to corporal punishment and torture , free citizens and even nobles . It is equally certain that the kings often formally appealed to an assembly of soldiers or of peers ( éraîρo ) to decide in cases of life and death . Such ...
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... death , which are expunged from our texts . He had the sanction of divine right , but what was far more important , the practical control of life and death , re- garding the nobility of his household servants , and the prop- erty of his ...
... death , which are expunged from our texts . He had the sanction of divine right , but what was far more important , the practical control of life and death , re- garding the nobility of his household servants , and the prop- erty of his ...
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... death , which followed shortly , saved Casander from a worse fate . Thus the distinction pointed out by Niebuhr would lead Alexander to prefer the orientals , whom he had conquered , and who were his absolute property , to the ...
... death , which followed shortly , saved Casander from a worse fate . Thus the distinction pointed out by Niebuhr would lead Alexander to prefer the orientals , whom he had conquered , and who were his absolute property , to the ...
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... death . So it came that the noblest and most esteemed of his Companions were cavalry officers , and from this time onward no general thought of fighting , like Epaminondas , a battle on foot . Eastern warfare also brought in the use of ...
... death . So it came that the noblest and most esteemed of his Companions were cavalry officers , and from this time onward no general thought of fighting , like Epaminondas , a battle on foot . Eastern warfare also brought in the use of ...
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