 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fate of an army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of hia profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fato of any army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, 'and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fate of an army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | Henry White - 1848 - 704 Seiten
...people. His campaigns in Italy compel us to bestow the admiration due to a superior power. But military talent is one of the lower forms of genius : the office...new mode of warfare had no small agency in fixing his character, and determining for a period the fate of empires. To astonish as well as to sway by... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fate of an army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | Henry White - 1849 - 592 Seiten
...whose business u is to frame new combinations of physical forces, to adapt them to new circumstan ces, and to remove new obstructions. — Bonaparte's intellect...new mode of warfare had no small agency in fixing his character, and determining; for a period the fate of empires. To astonish as well as to sway by... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fate of an army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | H. White - 1851 - 592 Seiten
...him who had commanded the Prussians at the outset of the Revolution, was killed in this battle. tary talent is one of the lower forms of genius ; the office...new mode of warfare had no small agency in fixing his character, and determining for a period the fate of empires. To astonish as well as to sway by... | |
 | George Jones - 1852 - 748 Seiten
...glance what most men only learn by study. He darted to a conclusion rather by intuition than reasoning. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible to lie enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...unexpected fury on a vulnerable part of the hostile line, and the fate of an army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies... | |
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... army be decided in a day. He understood war as a science ; but his mind was too bold, rapid, and irrepressible, to be enslaved by the technics of his profession. He found the old armies fighting by rule, and he discovered the true characteristic of... 
