 | Josiah Strong - Civilization - 1900 - 332 pages
...than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins...who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own countiy and by your own institutions."... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1900 - 1292 pages
...historian Macaulay wrote to a friend in New York the following gloomy prediction concerning our future: " Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins...— with this difference : that the Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions." Mr. President, I trust that... | |
 | Locomotives - 1898 - 734 pages
...by barbarians" last election, and now, if My Lord Macauley Is not entirely wrong, we may expect that -some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand," in order to prevent the Republic being " fearfully plundered." TREAejHEROUS MEMORIES. JENNIE [HOUGH... | |
 | 1901 - 700 pages
...fresh spoliation. There is nothing to stop you. Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins...who ravaged the Roman empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country, and by your own institutions."... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1902 - 794 pages
...is nothing to stop you. Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. Either some Caesar or Xapoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand,...who ravaged the Roman empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions."... | |
 | 1916 - 736 pages
...letter to an American friend, he wrote: "Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seise the reins of the Government with a strong hand or your republic will...laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as thz Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman... | |
 | Mary Foote Henderson - Hygiene - 1904 - 794 pages
...government and rule with an iron hand, or your country will be as fearfully plundered and laid to waste in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth century, with this difference : the Huns and Vandals that ravaged Home came from without her borders,... | |
 | Henry Franklin Ring - Economics - 1905 - 306 pages
...before, when a society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins...republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by the barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with the difference that... | |
 | 1905 - 722 pages
...Macaulay prophesied concerning us: "As for America, I appeal to the twentieth century. Either some Cssar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - Presidents - 1906 - 190 pages
..."When a society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins...who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions."... | |
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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... 
