 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...importance of the step he was about to take ; saying to those around him, "We may still retreat; but, if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." " While he was thus hesitating," says Suetonius (" Life "), " a person remarkable for his noble mien... | |
 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1890 - 614 pages
...on the point of taking, he turned to those about him, and said : " We may still retreat ; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." XXXII. While he was thus hesitating, the following incident occurred. A person remarkable for his noble... | |
 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1896 - 576 pages
...was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him, and said: " We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms," XXXII. While he was thus hesitating, the following incident occurred. A person remarkable for his noble... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1911 - 988 pages
...or the dominion of the world to him. "We may still retreat," he said to those about him, "but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." "Jacta est alea," he exclaimed, "the die is cast," the Rubicon was crossed, and Caesar went forward... | |
 | Celia Richmond - Readers - 1913 - 296 pages
...quiver. The general turned to his officers. " Gentlemen," he said quietly, " we may still re- ,£/ treat, but if we once pass this little bridge, nothing is...sitting by the roadway struck up his ditty, and a few r THE APPIAN WAY IN C/KSAR'S TIME idle soldiers and wayfaring shepherds ran up to him to catch the... | |
 | Mark Twain - Literary Collections - 1917 - 392 pages
...was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him and said, "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." This was a stupendously important moment. And all the incidents, big and little, of Caesar's previous... | |
 | Kenneth John Atchity, Rosemary McKenna - History - 1998 - 488 pages
...was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him, and said: "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." XXXII. While he was thus hesitating, the following incident occurred. A person remarkable for his noble... | |
 | Mark Twain - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 242 pages
...was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him and said, "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." This was a stupendously important moment. And all the incidents, big and little, of Caesar's previous... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 2009 - 404 pages
...was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him and said, "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms." This was a stupendously important moment. And all the incidents, big and little, of Caesar's previous... | |
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Rubicon, he halted for a while, and, revolving in his mind the importance of the step he was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him and said, "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it... 