 Caesars at Rome did pretty well, and found means to keep their armies in tolerable subjection, because the generals and officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their successors?  Historical Register - Page 2021732Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their fucceflbrs ? Was not everyone of them named by the army without any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? A cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raife himfelf in the army, and could gain their affeftions,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...officers were all thrir own creatures. But how did it fare with their fucceflors ? Was not every ore of them named by the army without any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? A cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raife himfelf in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their successors ? W'as not every one of them named by the army, without...any regard to hereditary right , or to any right ? A cobler , a gardener , or any man who happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their futceflbrs ? Was not every one of them named by the army, without any regard to hereditary right, or to any right i A cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raifehimfelf in the army, and could gain their affeftions,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1810 - 556 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures ; but how did it fare with their successors? Was not every one of them named by the army without...any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? a cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures; but how did it fare with their successors ? Was not every one of them named by the army, without...any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? a rubier, a gardener, or any man who happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...the generals and officers were all , their own creatures. But how did it fare with their successors ? Was not every one of them named by the army, without...any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? A cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1811 - 706 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures ; but how did it fare with their successors ? Was not every one of them named by the army without...any regard to hereditary right, or to any right? A cobler, a gardener, or any man «ho happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their successors ? Was not every one of them named by the army, without...any regard to hereditary right, or to any right ? A cobler, a gardener, or any man who happened to raise himself in the army, and could gain their affections,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...the generals and officers were all their own creatures. But how did it fare with their successors? ng which I must oppose, adventure to try how I can defend him. gardener, or any man who happened to raige himself in the army, and could gain their affections, was... | |
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