 | William Mitford - 1814 - Страниц: 478
...soldier, and for the community to pay unremitted attention to military affairs. Accordingly we find that, so early as Homer's time, the Greeks had improved...were in his time regularly formed in ranks and files. Steddiness in the soldier, that foundation of all those powers which distinguish an army from a mob,... | |
 | William Mitford - 1823 - Страниц: 518
...unremitted attention to military af- SECT. fairs. Accordingly we find that, so early as Homer's ^J^^,, time, the Greeks had improved considerably upon that...were in his time regularly formed in ranks and files. Steddiness in the soldier, that foundation of all those powers which distinguish an army from a mob,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1841 - Страниц: 806
...practice of war for successive centuries. Several terms used by the poet, together with his description of marches, indicate that orders of battle were in his time regularly formed in ranks and h'les. Steadiness in the soldier, that foundation of all those powers which distinguish an army from... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske - 1849 - Страниц: 766
...practice 'of war for successive centuries. Several terms used by the poet, together with his description of marches, indicate that orders of battle were in...powers which distinguish an army from a mob, and which 10 this day forms the highest praise of the best troops, we find in great perfection in the Iliad.... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1855 - Страниц: 772
...the poet, together with his description of marches, indicate that orders ol battle were in his lime regularly formed in ranks and files. Steadiness in...foundation of all those powers which distinguish an army Irom a mob, and which 10 this day forms the highest praise of the best troops, we find in great perfection... | |
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that so early as Homer's time, the Greeks had improved considerably upon that tumultuary warfare alone known to many barbarous nations, who yet have prided themselves in the practice of war for successive centuries. Several terms used by the poet, together... 