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Page 42
... determined to extinguish the flames of their resentment in the blood of Priam and his people , who refused to restore the illustrious fugitive . 3. A powerful army was accordingly sent to wage war with the Trojans ; but the enterprise ...
... determined to extinguish the flames of their resentment in the blood of Priam and his people , who refused to restore the illustrious fugitive . 3. A powerful army was accordingly sent to wage war with the Trojans ; but the enterprise ...
Page 285
... determined hostility . The at- tack in the field was such as war authorizes ; was on men , and on soldiers ; and could be easily forgotten . Here the assault was made on the man of grey hairs , the defenceless female , and the cradled ...
... determined hostility . The at- tack in the field was such as war authorizes ; was on men , and on soldiers ; and could be easily forgotten . Here the assault was made on the man of grey hairs , the defenceless female , and the cradled ...
Page 334
... determined , that they should be freed from the tyrannical oppression of their imperious task- masters , and only obliged to work by corvees in rotation , and to receive fixed wages for the days they were obliged to work . This was ...
... determined , that they should be freed from the tyrannical oppression of their imperious task- masters , and only obliged to work by corvees in rotation , and to receive fixed wages for the days they were obliged to work . This was ...
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