...the only writer who has united the merits of a professor and a veteran. The discipline and evolution of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." No one can doubt it who compares Gibbon's numerous narratives of military operations with the ordinary...

...touches. The well-known, self-complacent remark of Gibbon occurs to us — " The discipline and evolution of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of...legion, and the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Similarly did Schiller acquire precision...

...quoted in which he tells us that " the discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a tlearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Assuredly the practical knowledge of politics which Grote acquired during the nine or ten years of...

...evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a ;learer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain )f the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader may smile) has...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Assuredly the practical knowledge of politics which Grote acquired during the nine or ten years of...

...connection occurs the remark which admirers of Gibbon will never tire of citing: "A familiar view of the discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...smile) has not been useless to the historian of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire." The grand tour followed his militia service. Three and a half...

...evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of Hampshire grenadiers ( the reader may smile ) has...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.' Meantime he revolved within his mind many projects for a historical work, and, the militia being disbanded,...

...canvas. The result is seen in the lucidity and vigour of his battle-pieces. As he says in the Memoirs, " the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." While he was in the militia, in 1761, Gibbon published, in French, his first work, an Essai sur T Etude...

...canvas. The result is seen in the lucidity and vigour of his battle-pieces. As he says in the Memoirs, " the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." While he was in the militia, in 1761, Gibbon published, in French, his first work, an Essai sur T Etude...

...canvas. The result is seen in the lucidity and vigour of his battle-pieces. As he says in the Memoirs, " the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." While he was in the militia, in 1761, Gibbon published, in French, his first work, an GIBBON 353 Rssai...

...servitude as a captain — an irksome discipline, but one which he admits was not unprofitable to him. 'The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion...of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Koman empire.'...