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... fhould be pitched upon for it , who would exercise it with steadiness and intrepidity . That such a man was Fabius Maximus , who had a spirit and dignity of manners equal to fo great a command , and befides was of . an age in which the ...
... fhould be pitched upon for it , who would exercise it with steadiness and intrepidity . That such a man was Fabius Maximus , who had a spirit and dignity of manners equal to fo great a command , and befides was of . an age in which the ...
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... fhould be fuperior in men and money . Hence it was that he ex- haufted the whole art of war ; like a fkillful wreftler , who watches every opportunity to lay hold of his adversary . Sometimes he advanced , and alarmed him with the appre ...
... fhould be fuperior in men and money . Hence it was that he ex- haufted the whole art of war ; like a fkillful wreftler , who watches every opportunity to lay hold of his adversary . Sometimes he advanced , and alarmed him with the appre ...
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... fhould not give up Minucius , to suffer * Others fay , that he loft five thousand of his men , and that the enemy's lofs did not exceed his by more than a thousand . perhaps , what Manlius Torquatus caufed his own fon te FABIUS MAXIMUS .
... fhould not give up Minucius , to suffer * Others fay , that he loft five thousand of his men , and that the enemy's lofs did not exceed his by more than a thousand . perhaps , what Manlius Torquatus caufed his own fon te FABIUS MAXIMUS .
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... fhould one day appear to have their fafety and intereft lefs at heart than the man who had " been fo ill treated by them . " Minucius confidering this as the effect of an old man's pique , and taking the troops that fell to his lot ...
... fhould one day appear to have their fafety and intereft lefs at heart than the man who had " been fo ill treated by them . " Minucius confidering this as the effect of an old man's pique , and taking the troops that fell to his lot ...
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... fhould thenfelves be furrounded in their turn . Hannibal feeing this change of fortune , and finding that Fabius pushed on through the hottest of the battle with a vigor above his years , to come up to Minucius upon the hill , put an ...
... fhould thenfelves be furrounded in their turn . Hannibal feeing this change of fortune , and finding that Fabius pushed on through the hottest of the battle with a vigor above his years , to come up to Minucius upon the hill , put an ...
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