 Upon this advice, the king rallied his troops, and marched in quest of the enemy; and Clearchus, being returned from pursuing the Persians, advanced to support the camp. The two armies were soon very near each other, when, by a movement made by the king,...  The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians ... - Page 542by Charles Rollin - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. — Id. Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supplying of our wants; and riches, upon enjoying... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1861 - 372 pages
...virtue borrows no assistance from. yet it may be accompanied by, the advantages of fortune. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. — Goldsmith. Replevin is when suit is brought to recover property in the possession of another.'... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1862 - 430 pages
...borrows no assistance from, yet it may be accompanied by, the advantages of fortune. The Greeks, fear ing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. — Goldsmith. Replevin is wheu suit is brought to recover property in the possession of another.*... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 324 pages
...endeavours to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had most of the leading men in Greece.—Goldsmith. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs.—Id. Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supplying of our wants ; and riches, upon... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1865 - 354 pages
...It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. — Id. Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supplying of our wants; and riches, upon enjoying... | |
 | George Washington Moon - 1865 - 240 pages
...just as does Goldsmith's language when, in the following tautological sentence, he says, " The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded " on all sides, wheeled about and halted, " with the river on their backa" Talk of Baron Munchausen! "Why, here was an army of Munchausens. They "wheeled " about and halted,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1870 - 360 pages
...heaven. — A' farmer went to a lawyer, and told him that his bull had gored his ox. — The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about, and halted with the river on their backs. — Nor was Philip wanting to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had most of the leading men ol Greece. —... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1870 - 200 pages
...unintelligible. Point out tbe impropriety, correct it, and give i •eason for tbe correction.] (1) The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about, and halted with the river on their back. (2) Parmenic had served, with great fidelity, Philip, the father of Alexander, as well as himself,... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...little, ragged boy, aged nine years, was discovered on the steamer. — Newspaper. 23. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. — Goldsmith, 24. But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry; every man, therefore,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1881 - 366 pages
...against heaven.—A farmer went to a lawyer, and told him that his bull had gored his ox.—The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about, and halted with the river on their backs.—Nor was Philip wanting to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had most of the leading men ot Greece.—Parmenio... | |
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