Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 174
fortress on an open hillside. Theybridged the Rhine in a week. They built a fleetin a month. The legions at Alesia2 held twicetheir number pinned within their works, while theykept at bay the whole force of insurgent Gaul, en-tirely by scientific superiority. The machine,which was thus perfect, was… … Julius Caesar 157 and clothes, and food, and shelter, and for all theseit depended on the forethought of its commander. Maps there were none. Countries entirely un-known had to be surveyed; routes had to be laidout; the depths and courses of rivers, the charac-ter of mountain passes, had all to be…
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