The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Band 9Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... reign is considered a model of prudent conduct and honorable purpose . Titus Flavius Vespasianus , to use his full Roman name , was the founder of the Flavian dy- nasty . He was born of a plebeian family near Reate , a Sabine town , in ...
... reign is considered a model of prudent conduct and honorable purpose . Titus Flavius Vespasianus , to use his full Roman name , was the founder of the Flavian dy- nasty . He was born of a plebeian family near Reate , a Sabine town , in ...
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... reign . He was temperate and frugal in his habits , and by the simplicity of his life he discouraged the luxury and extrava- gance of the nobles and upper classes , and initiated a salutary change in social manners and domestic economy ...
... reign . He was temperate and frugal in his habits , and by the simplicity of his life he discouraged the luxury and extrava- gance of the nobles and upper classes , and initiated a salutary change in social manners and domestic economy ...
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... reign are the victories of Agricola in Britain , by which most of that island was brought under Roman government . This period has been pronounced by Merivale " the apogee of Rome's military renown . " Under Vespasian's rule the empire ...
... reign are the victories of Agricola in Britain , by which most of that island was brought under Roman government . This period has been pronounced by Merivale " the apogee of Rome's military renown . " Under Vespasian's rule the empire ...
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... reign of freedmen recommenced . The degradation of Rome was complete ; and never yet perhaps had she sunk so low in luxury and licentiousness as in the few months which followed the death of Otho . Three legions of Vespasian had crossed ...
... reign of freedmen recommenced . The degradation of Rome was complete ; and never yet perhaps had she sunk so low in luxury and licentiousness as in the few months which followed the death of Otho . Three legions of Vespasian had crossed ...
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... reign a large part of Rome was destroyed by a conflagation which raged about three days and three nights . The fire swept over a space occupied by important public buildings , consumed the Pantheon , and damaged the Capi- tol . The ...
... reign a large part of Rome was destroyed by a conflagation which raged about three days and three nights . The fire swept over a space occupied by important public buildings , consumed the Pantheon , and damaged the Capi- tol . The ...
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Seite 232 - The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the I775O CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. 29! haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and...
Seite 234 - ... nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers, which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 230 - ... themselves sick or sound. I do not say whether they were right or wrong in applying your general arguments to their own case. It is not easy indeed to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries. The fact is, that they did thus apply those general arguments; and your mode of governing them, whether through lenity or indolence, through wisdom or mistake, confirmed them in the imagination, that they, as well as you, had an interest in these common principles. They were further confirmed in this...
Seite 64 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Seite 29 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known ; To see all others...
Seite 233 - Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Seite 305 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.
Seite 229 - In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole...
Seite 230 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist. The Colonies draw from you, as with their life-blood, these ideas and principles.
Seite 233 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.