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" 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 153
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The Canada Law Journal, Volume 56

Law - 1920 - 446 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.' ' [The lecturer then proceeded to controvert some of Macaulay's conclusions and continues as follows:]...
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Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Military pensions - 1920 - 808 pages
...laid waste by the 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. * * * ' "It is as certain that the sun will rise to-morrow that the prophecy...
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Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Military pensions - 1920 - 806 pages
...and laid waste by the 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. * * * ' "It is as certain that the sun will rise to-morrow that the prophecy...
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Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation, Volumes 1-10

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1920 - 636 pages
...twentieth century, as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and \ andals, who ravaged the Roman Empire, came from without, and...will have been engendered within your own country and by your own institutions. * * *' "It is as certain that the sun will rise to-morrow that the prophecy...
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To Limit the Jurisdiction of United States District and Circuit Courts in ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1922 - 46 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.' " Mr. VOLSTEAD. May I ask a question? Mr. THOM. I am not quite through, Mr. Volstead. No one, no thoughtful...
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If America Fail: Our National Mission and Our Possible Future

Samuel Zane Batten - United States - 1922 - 288 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire 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." President Garfield confessed that this letter of Macaulay's startled...
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Revue Du Barreau Canadien, Volume 1

Bar associations - 1923 - 920 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." * * * In the sweeping rejection by the electorate of the proposed Capital Levy for Switzerland the...
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The Growth of American Administrative Law

Ernst Freund, Robert Virgil Fletcher, Joseph Edward Davies, Cuthbert Winfred Pound, John Albert Kurtz, Charles Nagel - Administrative law - 1923 - 204 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the 5th, — with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your institutions. ' ' That rights of property and of personal liberty, even when unpopular,...
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The World's Work, Volume 48

American literature - 1924 - 702 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." It is perhaps untrue to say that this prophecy has failed, for the condition on which it was based...
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Michigan State Bar Journal, Volume 3

Bar associations - 1924 - 306 pages
...plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the 2Oth 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." In this direful prediction Macaulay undoubtedly showed scant knowledge of our Constitution, which is...
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