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Page 152 - Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
Page 219 - O MAN ! WHOSOEVER THOU ART, AND WHENSOEVER THOU COMEST (FOR COME I KNOW THOU WILT), I AM CYRUS, THE FOUNDER OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, ENVY ME NOT THE LITTLE EARTH THAT COVERS MY BODY.
Page 110 - Athenians, upon their return home, went to Euripides, and thanked him in the most respectful manner for their obligations to his pen...
Page 256 - Having said this, he approached the doors of the treasury, and, as the keys were not produced, he sent for workmen to break them open.
Page 186 - Sicilian make, girt close about him, and over that a breastpiece of thickly quilted linen, which was taken among other booty at the battle of Issus. The helmet, which was made by Theophilus, though of iron, was so well wrought and polished that it was as bright as the most refined silver.
Page 243 - They first routed his cavalry, and then surrounded the twelfth and seventh legions, and "killed all the officers. Had not Caesar snatched a buckler from one of his own men, forced his way through the combatants before him, and rushed upon the barbarians; or had not the tenth legion,! seeing his danger, run from the heights where they were posted, and mowed down the enemy's ranks, in all probability not one Roman would have survived the battle.
Page 158 - He loved polite learning too; and his natural thirst of knowledge made him a man of extensive reading. The Iliad, he thought, as well as called, a portable treasure of military knowledge; and he had a copy corrected by Aristotle, which is called the casket ccpyj Onesicritus informs us that he used to lay it under his pillow with his sword.
Page 238 - ... prisoners. Such, moreover, was the affection of his soldiers, and their attachment to his person, that they who, under other commanders, were nothing above the common rate of men, became invincible where Cesar's glory was concerned, and met the most dreadful dangers with a courage that nothing could resist.
Page 163 - Thus much concerning the Theban war. A general assembly of the Greeks being held at the Isthmus of Corinth, they came to a resolution to send their quotas with Alexander against the Persians, and he was unanimously elected captain-general.