 | Agriculture - 1862 - 500 pages
...the World. The Decisive Battles of the Word, those of which, to use Hallam's words, a contrary reBult would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes, are numbered аи fifteen by Prof. Creasey, who fills the chair of Ancient and Modern History in the... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 390 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hallam, 'a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama...subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of the battles are well and clearly brought out, the reader's mind is attracted to the world-wide importance of the... | |
 | Annie French Hector - 1865 - 266 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles which, in the words of Hallam, ' A contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all itt subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of the battles are well and clearly brought out; the... | |
 | Emily Eden - India - 1866 - 292 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles which, in the words of Hallam, ' A contrary event would have essentially varied the drama...subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of the battles are well and clearly brought out ; the reader's mind is attracted to the world- wide importance of... | |
 | Emily Eden - India - 1866 - 304 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles which, in the words of Hallam, ' A contrary event would have essentially varied the drama...its subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of the battlei are well and clearly brought out ; the reader's mind is attracted to the world-wide importance... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1868 - 458 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles which, in the words of Hallam, ' A contrary event would have essentially varied the drama...subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of the battles are well and clearly brought out ; the reader's mind is attracted to the world-wide importance of the... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1868 - 472 pages
...Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles which, in the words of Hallam, ' A contrary event would have essentially varied the drama...all its subsequent scenes.' The decisive features of lhe battles are well and clearly brought out ; the reader's mind is attrocU-d to the world- wide Importance... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1868 - 378 pages
...Charles Martel has immortalised his name,, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles, of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes, with Marathon, Arbela, Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic. Yet, do we not judge a little too much by the... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - Conduct of life - 1873 - 384 pages
...Hallam says of a certain battle that " it may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." Lord Dalling (Sir Henry Bulwer), in his recent "Life of Lord Palmerston," thinks that he discerns a... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1875 - 754 pages
...Charles Martel has immortalised his name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles, of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes, with Marathon, Arbela, Metaurus, Chalons^ and Leipsic. Yet, do we not judge a little too much by the... | |
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Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hallam, * a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. 
