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
| Detroit journal - Detroit (Mich.) - 1890 - 132 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. Personal Notes. Rulers of Europe: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India,... | |
| Southern New Hampshire Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 486 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...been engendered within your own country, by your own institutions."1 In 1863, Professor Freeman, the author of the "Norman Conquest," gave to one of his... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 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. — Lord Macaulay, in Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Macaulay, vol. 2, pp. 408-410. 7. — (Section... | |
| Leopold Wagner - Great Britain - 1896 - 376 pages
...and laid waste by barbaiians in the twentieth century, as the Roman Empire was in the fifth ; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and lhat your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered » ithin y our own country and by your own institutions."... | |
| Josiah Strong - Civilization - 1900 - 320 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...will have been engendered within your own country and by your own institutions." Enforced idleness and hunger are capain this age and land of plenty.... | |
| Josiah Strong - Civilization - 1900 - 320 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...will have been engendered within your own country and by your own institutions." Enforced idleness and hunger are capaable of breeding Huns and Vandals... | |
| Josiah Strong - Civilization - 1900 - 332 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...Vandals will have been engendered within your own countiy and by your own institutions." Enforced idleness and hunger are capain this age and land of... | |
| Locomotives - 1898 - 734 pages
...barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was In the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions." According to some people the United States barely averted being "laid waste by barbarians" last election,... | |
| 1901 - 700 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...will have been engendered within your own country, and by your own institutions." Macaulay clearly saw that the masses could not long remain discontented... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1902 - 794 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." We may take this for what it is worth; but it requires no Macaulay,... | |
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