 | 1881 - Страниц: 308
...critical writer are worth quoting her*, " He seems," says he, " to have been a man of great talenfc for the age, and of celebrity in arms. His formation of a regular standing army, trained to war, in which all the Irish accounts agree, seems to have been a rude imitation... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - 1903 - Страниц: 670
...favourable to Ireland's claims to early civilisation or importance, thus speaks of him : — " He seems to have been a man of great talents for "the age,...and of celebrity in arms. His formation of a regular standing army, trained to war, in which all the Irish "accounts agree, seems to have been a rude imitation... | |
 | Geoffrey Keating - 1998 - Страниц: 420
...Roman Legions. The words of this critical writer are worth quoting here : " ' He seems,' says he, ' to have been a man of great talents for the age, and of celebrity in arms. His formation of a regular standing army, trained to war, in which all the Irish accounts agree, seems to have a rude imitation... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - Страниц: 806
...Pinkerton says, in his Inquiry into the History of Scotland (Ossianic Soc. vol. vp 210), that " he seems to have been a man of great talents for the age, and of celebrity in arms. His formation of a regular standing army, in which all Irish accounts agree, seems to have been a rude imitation of the Roman... | |
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to have been a man of great talents for the age, and of celebrity in arms. His formation of a regular standing army, trained to war, in which all the Irish accounts agree, seems to have a rude imitation of the Roman legion in Britain. 
