 | Jean Roemer - 1868 - 340 Seiten
...ST*ANGE COMPARISON. THE Physicians, says the Spectator, are a most formi dable body of men. This body may be described like the British army in Caesar's...charioteers, it is because they cannot be carried BO soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in BO short a time. Besides this... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1870 - 420 Seiten
...thin of people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British army in Qesar's time. Some of them slay in chariots, and some on foot....carried so soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers,... | |
 | 1871 - 930 Seiten
...destroying their species, comparing them to the warriors of ancient Briton. " Some of them " (he says) " slay in chariots, and some on foot. If the infantry...execution than the charioteers, it is because they cannot so soon be carried into all quarters of the town, and despatch so much business in so short a time."... | |
 | 1871 - 908 Seiten
...If the infantry do less execution than the charioteers, it is because they cannot so soon be carried into all quarters of the town, and despatch so much business in so short a time." This is as fine as any of Moliere's satires on the profession. The " Exercise of the Fan," too, in... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 838 Seiten
...country, may be described like the British army in Caesar's 68 THE CONTROVERSY [ESSAY time, some of tJicni slay in chariots, and some on foot. If the infantry...and despatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled,... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 848 Seiten
...may be described like the British army in Caesar's time, son1c of thcm slay in chariots, and son1c on foot. If the infantry do less execution than the...and despatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled,... | |
 | Thad M. Stevens - 1871 - 590 Seiten
...this difficulty than any of those he has made use of. This body of men in our own country, (England,) may be described like the British army in Caesar's...and despatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body &f regular troops, there are stragglers who, without being duly listed and enrolled,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 Seiten
...that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British army in Caesar's...carried so soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 Seiten
...solution for this difficulty than any of those he has made use of. This body of men, in our own country, may be described like the British army in Caesar's...carried so soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...made use of. This body of men, in our own country, may be described like the British army in Cassar's time : some of them slay in chariots, and some on...carried so soon into all quarters of the town, and dispatch so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers,... | |
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... so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled, do infinite mischief to those who are so unlucky as to fall into their hands. 
