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... MARCELLUS , 230 PELOPIDAS AND MARCELLUS COMPARED , 266 ARISTIDES , - 269 CATO THE CENSOR , ---- 305 ARISTIDES AND CATO COMPARED , - PHILOPOEMEN , TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINIUS , PHILOPOMEN AND FLAMINIUS COMPARED , -S - 336 343 364 388 ...
... MARCELLUS , 230 PELOPIDAS AND MARCELLUS COMPARED , 266 ARISTIDES , - 269 CATO THE CENSOR , ---- 305 ARISTIDES AND CATO COMPARED , - PHILOPOEMEN , TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINIUS , PHILOPOMEN AND FLAMINIUS COMPARED , -S - 336 343 364 388 ...
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... Marcellus , men diftinguished by characters almost entirely opposite . Marcellus ( as we have mentioned in his life ) was a man of a buoyant and animated valor remarkably well skilled in the ufe of weapons , and naturally enterprifing ...
... Marcellus , men diftinguished by characters almost entirely opposite . Marcellus ( as we have mentioned in his life ) was a man of a buoyant and animated valor remarkably well skilled in the ufe of weapons , and naturally enterprifing ...
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... all declared it was not easy to find fo good à foldier , doing * Livy tells this ftory of Marcellus , which Plutarch here applies to Fabius . him the juftice to mention several extraordinary instances of his FABIUS MAXIMUS . # 3.
... all declared it was not easy to find fo good à foldier , doing * Livy tells this ftory of Marcellus , which Plutarch here applies to Fabius . him the juftice to mention several extraordinary instances of his FABIUS MAXIMUS . # 3.
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... Marcellus out of Sicily , and therefore the lofs of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . These men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal , and by facrificing them , hoped to draw him to a distance from Tarentum ...
... Marcellus out of Sicily , and therefore the lofs of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . These men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal , and by facrificing them , hoped to draw him to a distance from Tarentum ...
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... Marcellus in his taste for the fine arts , and ftill more fo in mercy and humanity . Marcellus is this refpect had greatly the advantage , as we have already observed in his life . Hannibal had haftened to the relief of Tarentum , and ...
... Marcellus in his taste for the fine arts , and ftill more fo in mercy and humanity . Marcellus is this refpect had greatly the advantage , as we have already observed in his life . Hannibal had haftened to the relief of Tarentum , and ...
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Page 239 - Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing.
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Page 238 - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul.