An Essay on Military Educationauthor; and sold, 1776 - 106 Seiten |
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... greatest care in the formation of it . In public life , gentlemen are born to affist either in compofing the councils of the nation , or in conducting her fleets and her armies ; to be the bulwarks of the confti- tution ; to fuftain ...
... greatest care in the formation of it . In public life , gentlemen are born to affist either in compofing the councils of the nation , or in conducting her fleets and her armies ; to be the bulwarks of the confti- tution ; to fuftain ...
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... greatest enter- prizes . That he should fall fhort , therefore , only in one attainment of fuch great importance to his honour and welfare , must be wholly ascribed to a want of refolution to break the chains that blind and obstinate ...
... greatest enter- prizes . That he should fall fhort , therefore , only in one attainment of fuch great importance to his honour and welfare , must be wholly ascribed to a want of refolution to break the chains that blind and obstinate ...
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... greatest proficient , who has established his practice on the most ac- curate and best digested theory : and though , in the effufions of that esteem which is always felt for eminent talents , it may be faid , that a man is born an ...
... greatest proficient , who has established his practice on the most ac- curate and best digested theory : and though , in the effufions of that esteem which is always felt for eminent talents , it may be faid , that a man is born an ...
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... chief command of great armies , and almost as foon as they appeared were known in the characters of commanders and victors . That the greatest fuccefs , C 4 fuccefs , and the most useful instruction , may arise ( 23 ) 1.
... chief command of great armies , and almost as foon as they appeared were known in the characters of commanders and victors . That the greatest fuccefs , C 4 fuccefs , and the most useful instruction , may arise ( 23 ) 1.
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... greatest men , especially if they were warriors , were the greatest proficients in it , has def- cribed with his peculiar force and beauty a contest in swimming between Caius Caffius and Julius Cæfar ; and to intimate that it was a ...
... greatest men , especially if they were warriors , were the greatest proficients in it , has def- cribed with his peculiar force and beauty a contest in swimming between Caius Caffius and Julius Cæfar ; and to intimate that it was a ...
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