 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1907 - 416 Seiten
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legions ; and the captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." When, finally, his father died in 1770, the fates had once more been signally propitious. After his... | |
 | 1907 - 922 Seiten
...from 1885 to 1895.* Gibbon, after describing his military experiences, said, in an oft-quoted passage, "the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the reader...been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Unquestionably Mr. Paul has acquired a firmer grasp of the mechanism of political life from his work... | |
 | 1907 - 832 Seiten
...military experiences, said, in an oft-quoted passage, "the Captain of the Hampshire Grenadiers (the rsader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Unquestionably Mr. Paul has acquired a firmer grasp of the mechanism of political life from his work... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 550 Seiten
...of Quintus Icilius', and it is in this connexion that he writes : — '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'*. He also studied Homer and ' Longinus'7,... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 540 Seiten
...of Quintus Icilius5, and it is in this connexion that he writes : — ' 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'6. He also studied Homer and ' Longinus'7,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 388 Seiten
...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 1 Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 446. 2 Autobiography, Hill's ed., 142. Roman Empire."... | |
 | James Smith - 1909 - 112 Seiten
...Icilius.1 He was the only writer (says Gibbon) who united the merits of a professor and a veteran. 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 Roman Empire."... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 Seiten
...discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legions, and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers — the...been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.' But of this and of his later career in Parliament he was impatient as of anything which did not contribute... | |
 | Library Association - 1913 - 822 Seiten
...was raised about 1760, and in his autobiography shows the importance he attached to the position. " The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer opinion of the Phalanx and the Legion, and the Captaincy of Hampshire Grenadiers has not been useless... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1916 - 482 Seiten
...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." 2 The grand tour followed his militia service. Three and a half... | |
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The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire. 
