Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools: A short history of the Roman people, by William F. Allen, Part 2 |
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Page 327 - It was at first my wish to destroy the Roman name, and erect in its place a Gothic empire, taking to myself the place and the powers of Caesar Augustus. But when experience taught me that the...
Page vi - ... secondly, it introduces us to the life of a past generation, so that its thoughts, its emotions, its habits, its concerns, may in a measure become as real to us as that of the age in which we live, and the people whom we meet every day. These we may call the philosophical and the picturesque aspects of history ; and I do not know of any other benefit conferred by historical study. No historical fact is of any value except so far as it helps us to understand human nature or the working of historic...
Page 145 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates; (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page 327 - But when experience taught me that the untameable barbarism of the Goths would not suffer them to live beneath the sway of law, and that the abolition of the institutions on which the state rested would involve the ruin of the state itself, I chose the glory of renewing and maintaining by Gothic strength the fame of Rome, desiring to go down to posterity as the restorer of that Roman power which it was beyond my power to replace.
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Page v - While thus he considered society as a whole, he found in Roman history two fundamentally important series of events, each of which influenced the other : first, the policy and process by which the Roman Dominion was secured and organized during the Republic, its reorganization under the Empire, and final disruption at the time of the German migrations ; and secondly, the social and economic causes of the failure of self-government among the Romans, and the working of the same forces under the Empire....
Page 272 - Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?