 | Titus Livius (Patavinus.) - 1878 - 460 pagine
...see Madvig Kleine Philol. Sehr. p. 367. id mora, quod. Cf. 5. 12, id morari quod. P. 50, o. XLVI. § 1. territos p. The portents, as seen of old, commonly...exagimen, as ala for axilla, mala for maxilla. § 3. procuratis. The technical term for the religious ceremonies adopted to propitiate the powers whose... | |
 | Livy - 1879 - 626 pagine
...see Madvig Kleine PhOol. Schr. p. 367. Id mora, quod. Cf. 5. 12, id morari quod. P. 50, c. XLvi. § 1. territos p. The portents, as seen of old, commonly...maxilla. § 3. procuratls. The technical term for the religions ceremonies adopted to propitiate the powers whose displeasure had been shown by natural signs.... | |
 | Livy - 1879 - 462 pagine
...reflected the prevailing temper whether sanguine or foreboding. Cf. what Bagehot says of such forme of superstition as a source of national weakness....the ruin of the armies which have felt it ; or has mode them delay to do something necessary, or rush to do something destructive A religion full of omens... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 286 pagine
...to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 pagine
...as to luck would be at the mercy of a nation in other respects -equal which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...has been the ruin of the armies which have felt it : has made them delay to do something necessary or rush to do something destructive. The necessity... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 pagine
...to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 pagine
...to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 272 pagine
...to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 2007 - 150 pagine
...the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which, was not subject to them. In historical rimes, as we know, the panic terror at eclipses has been...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
 | 1871 - 780 pagine
...to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror...something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised and before it became a trick... | |
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Now the present point as to these superstitions is their military inexpediency. A nation which was moved by these superstitions as to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times,... 