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Stor. vol. xv. pp. 377 to 453. Machiavelli's treatise De re militari, or I libri sull' arte della guerra, was the work of his later life; it was published in 1521 at Florence. Though Machiavelli deserves the credit of this military system, the part of Antonio Giacomini in carrying it into effect must not be forgotten.

I knew, at a very early age, that my grand-uncle Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glorious facts inspired in me an admiring veneration; yet it is not that sentiment, strong as it was, which resumes for me the force and the significance of his personality.

Two very simple observations will, perhaps, suffice to get to the bottom of such a specious argument: The first is that the Germans in early times wore, in imitation of the Romans, "a wide belt ornamented with bosses of metal," a baldric, by which their swords were suspended on the left side; and the second is that the chroniclers of old days, who wrote in Latin and affected the classic style, very naturally adopted the word cingulum in all its acceptations, and made use of this Latin paraphrasis cingulo militari decorare to express this solemn adoption of the sword.

I knew, at a very early age, that my granduncle Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glorious facts inspired in me an admiring veneration; yet it is not that sentiment, strong as it was, which resumes for me the force and the significance of his personality.

Of these I will not even attempt to give the names, though when we remember some of the subjects the De Gloria, the De Re Militari he could not go into the army for a month or two without writing a book about it the De Auguriis, the De Philosophia, the De Suis Temporibus, the De Suis Consiliis, the De Jure Civili, and the De Universo, we may well ask ourselves what were the subjects on which he did not write.

"But what ought society to do?" "Society? That's its affair. To my thinking the surest and most direct method is compulsion. Manu militari she ought to be returned to her husband; and if her husband won't take her in, then she ought to be sent to penal servitude or some house of correction." "Ouf!" sighed Samoylenko.

X C V ," appeared in 1782, with the title; 'Di anecdoti vinizani militari a amorosi del secolo decimo quarto sotto i dogati di Giovanni Gradenigoe di Giovanni Dolfin'. Venezia, 1782.

Scriptores de Re Militari. Caesar's Commentaries. French translation, by De Crisse. Des Claison's History of Alexander and Caesar. D'Orleans' History of Revolutions in England and Spain. Marshal Saxe's Military Reveries. Guischard's Military Memoirs of the Greeks and Romans. Herodotus. Le Bean's Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. Lloyd's Military and Political Memoirs.

It is formally testified that, from a copy of Vegetius de Re Militari, in the school library of St. Paul's, MARLBOROUGH imbibed his passion for a military life. If he could not understand the text, the prints were, in such a mind, sufficient to awaken the passion for military glory.

Even my good friend the Fleming cannot so avail here, nor does Petrinus, in his "De re militari," lay down any injunctions as to the method of drilling a man who is armed with a sickle or a scythe. 'Shoulder scythe, port scythe, present scythe mow! whispered Reuben to Sir Gervas, and the pair began to laugh, heedless of the angry frowns of Saxon.