I have learned by experience, fellow-soldiers, that words cannot inspire courage, nor a general's speech render a spiritless army brave and intrepid. Every man displays in battle just so much courage as nature or habit has given him, and no more. It is... Sallust - 86. oldalszerző: Sallust - 1844 - 242 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Julius Caesar - 1856 - 472 oldal
...exhort liiin, whom neither glory nor danger con animate ; his fear deprives him of his hearing. I liave assembled you, fellow-soldiers, to instruct you in...particulars, and to lay before you the grounds of my filial resolution. " You all know what a dreadful calamity Lenfulus by his slow and spiritless conduct... | |
| Julius Caesar - 1861 - 472 oldal
...animate ; his fear deprives him of his hearing. I have assembled you, fellow-soldiers, to instruct yon in a few particulars, and to lay before you the grounds...Lentulus by his slow and spiritless conduct has brought upon himself and us ; and how I have been prevented from marching into Gaul, by waiting for reinforcements... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 434 oldal
...render a spiritless army brave and intrepid. Every man displays in battle just so much courage as nature or habit has given him, and no more. It is to no purpose...In what posture our affairs now are, you all see. " Two armies — one from Rome, another from Gaul — obstruct our advance. Want of provisions and... | |
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