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 l;U iii:i;oic KF-siSTAXcr: of sebastoi'OL CHAP. To the IxittuliMU ut' Ca])tuin ^'illck, wliii h ' contained many sailors who had served under lunr Mdien lu; was Captain of the Twelve Apostles, Korniloff said that he had long known theiu as gallant fellows, and that to sueii there was no need of much talk. Indeed, he in general spoke less to the sailors than to the men of the land service. He was more sure, it seems, of the steadiness of the sailors. The harangues which seem to touch soldiers do not often embody a new and lofty concep- tion ; * but they utter some thought which all can partake ; and by merging each num's love of self in the aggregate feeling of the regiment, the brigade, or the army, they make opinion set in with all the volume and weight which can be given to it by a multitude of human souls when they bend their whole forces one way. There- fore, speeches to soldiers are not to be wholly judged of by weighing the thoughts they contain, but rather by watching to see how they work on the hearts of the men. The efftct Tried simply by tliis latter test, the harangues dn/ei!'" of Korniloff must be held to have had a great worth ; for witnesses of different callings, and observing what passed from different points of view, are not only agreed in speaking of the Pyramids, when he said to his soldiery, 'Forty centuries look ' down ui)on you ! ' was addressed to a body of troops — all children as it were of the great Revolution — who, in point of intellectual and imaginative }>ower, were not at all of the sama quality as the ordinary armies of Europe,
 * The grand apostniplie of I'onaparte at the foot of the