Besides the resentment at such delusion, they shrunk from the risk altogether; not from any fear of Persian armies, but from the terrors of a march of three months inward from the coast, and the impossibility of return, which had so powerfully affected the Spartan King Kleomenes,[49] a century before; most of them being (as I have before remarked) men of decent position and family in their respective cities.

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On the 18th of December, having received information of the defeat and utter rout of Hood's army by General Thomas, and that, owing to the great difficulty of procuring ocean transportation, it would take over two months to transport Sherman's army, and doubting whether he might not contribute as much towards the desired result by operating from where he was, I wrote to him to that effect, and asked him for his views as to what would be best to do.

At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The contents of the tablets in which Asshurbanapal caused the wisdom of the god Nabu (identified by the ancients with Mercury) to be written of in this fashion, were varied to an extent scarcely conceivable. You said the very things it was good to say at this time. The reserves of the 9th corps should be massed as much as possible. Loin de la cour, loin du souci—Far from court, far from care.

Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had left him, rubbing his small white hands. There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. speaking of such a prince, says, "he is perfectly master of his own actions, to do whatever he pleases, and cannot be obliged to do any thing against his will." Such anciently was the power of the Inachidae established at Argos in Greece. The world produces us, the world then has soul and reason. The doubling process has apparently the effect of separating into two things that which in content is the same.

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