Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that... New Englander and Yale Review - Page 153edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
| Robert Templeman Craighill - Virginia - 1880 - 370 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century, as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...reckon Jefferson among the benefactors of mankind."* That a peer of England — albeit one not by inheritance but by appointment from the body of the people... | |
| Luther Tracy Townsend - Republics - 1880 - 316 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...within your own country by your own institutions." LXVI. (Page 231.) The acknowledgment must be made that the first threat of secession came from New... | |
| James Abram Garfield - United States - 1880 - 24 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the fifth j with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions. Thinking thus, of course, I cannot reckon Jefferson among the benefactors... | |
| Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 670 pages
...Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and A r andals who ravaged the Itoman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals...reckon Jefferson among the benefactors of mankind." Our first duty, as to the foregoing extracts, is to correct a few misstatements. It is not true that... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1881 - 466 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions. " Thinking thus, of course I cannot reckon Jefferson among the benefactors... | |
| Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 676 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your awn country, by your own institutions. Thinking thus, of course I cannot reckon Jefferson among the... | |
| James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century, as the Roman empire was in the fifth, — with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions. " Thinking thus, of course I cannot reckon Jefferson among the benefactors... | |
| Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1882 - 584 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions." But let us hope that Macaulay was a false prophet and that our dismemberment... | |
| Massachusetts - 1883 - 570 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions." But let us hope that Macaulay was a false prophet and that our dismemberment... | |
| Charles Edward Bolton - Anthologies - 1884 - 414 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...within your own country by your own institutions." SUPPLEMENTAL. LATER REPUBLICS. T ONG after the final extinction of both republican and imperial Rome,... | |
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