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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 untamable 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...
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 - ... 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.
Page ii - COOK, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TYPOGRAPHY BY JS GUSHING & Co., BOSTON, USA PRESSWORK BY GlNN & Co., BOSTON, USA TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD ROWLAND SILL A DEFENDER OF POETRY CONTENTS.
Page v - ... elements in the life of the Roman people could not be understood in isolation, but only in relation with each other. 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...
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?
Page vii - ... these fundamental considerations, the land question is treated, and the history of literature and religion is carefully traced. Teachers will notice that the more important dates are incorporated in the text, while the free use of dates in the margin serves to give more detailed guidance to the reader. Particular care was taken in the selection of maps and illustrations. The colored maps are reproductions of the charts accompanying Professor Freeman's Historical Geography of Europe. The cuts...
Page vi - But, when we have learned these, what, after all, do we possess? Only a skeleton, to be clothed with the flesh and blood of history. These facts have no more value in themselves than the names and positions of the stars to one who has no knowledge of the constitution and movements of the heavenly bodies; or the minute description of every variety of beetle or lichen, apart from the laws of growth and classification. Except for the gratification of intellectual curiosity, enabling us to understand...