The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World (arranged by Centuries)J.R. Osgood & Company, 1883 - 459 sider |
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Side 15
... republic is more striking than any similar contrast which history can supply . Nor was there any power to the westward of Greece that could have offered an effectual opposition to Persia , had she once conquered Greece and made that ...
... republic is more striking than any similar contrast which history can supply . Nor was there any power to the westward of Greece that could have offered an effectual opposition to Persia , had she once conquered Greece and made that ...
Side 16
... republic . It is because if that day had gone otherwise , Greece had perished . It is because he perceives that her philosophers and orators , her poets and painters , her sculptors and architects , her governments and free institutions ...
... republic . It is because if that day had gone otherwise , Greece had perished . It is because he perceives that her philosophers and orators , her poets and painters , her sculptors and architects , her governments and free institutions ...
Side 39
... republic . Wealth and honors , the offices of the state , and the ceremonies of religion were almost exclusively possessed by the former , who , preserving the purity of their blood with the most insulting jealousy , held their clients ...
... republic . Wealth and honors , the offices of the state , and the ceremonies of religion were almost exclusively possessed by the former , who , preserving the purity of their blood with the most insulting jealousy , held their clients ...
Side 53
... republic devoting three or four centuries to the solid establishment of its power in a radius of under a hundred miles , about the same time that Alexander was spreading out his marvellous empire in the course of a few years , it is not ...
... republic devoting three or four centuries to the solid establishment of its power in a radius of under a hundred miles , about the same time that Alexander was spreading out his marvellous empire in the course of a few years , it is not ...
Side 61
... republic is now prepared to contest the sovereignty of the West with the long - settled and deep - rooted power of Car- thage . MERIVALE . When in respect of her claims in Sicily and Spain , her growing aggrandizement had brought Rome ...
... republic is now prepared to contest the sovereignty of the West with the long - settled and deep - rooted power of Car- thage . MERIVALE . When in respect of her claims in Sicily and Spain , her growing aggrandizement had brought Rome ...
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Side 138 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 92 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...
Side 107 - No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by.
Side 19 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they, and where art thou, My country?
Side 45 - Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits, Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick- warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Side 33 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole ? A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Side 15 - Islands of the Blest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Side 410 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Side 244 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Side 111 - It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars; Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain: Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.