Outlines of Roman History: For the Use of High Schools and AcademiesAmerican Book Company, 1901 - 366 pages |
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Page 241 - And in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts, and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined were burned to serve for nocturnal lights.
Page 199 - ... owned to themselves that every wise man would have dissuaded them from it ; for it was in fact the most complete absurdity to fancy that the republic could be restored by Caesar's death. Goethe says somewhere that the murder of Caesar was the most senseless act that the Romans ever committed; and a truer word was never spoken.14 The result of it could not possibly be any other than that which did follow the deed.
Page 342 - The Roman Empire was formed by gradually bringing under its dominion all the countries within those bounds which had already begun to have any history, those which we may call the states of the Old World. And it was out of the breaking up of the great dominion of Rome that what we may call the states of the New World, the kingdoms and nations of modern Europe, gradually took their rise.
Page 241 - Accordingly first those were seized who confessed they were Christians ; next on their information a vast multitude were convicted, not so much on the charge of burning the city as of hating the human race.
Page 335 - Ms early vocation as a merchant, his miraculous visions, his call to preach, his flight from his native city Mecca (from which date, AD 622, begins the Mohammedan era), his failure as a simple prophet, and his use of the sword as a tool of religious conquest. It is enough for us to keep in mind the fact that he welded together a disunited people, proclaimed a new religion to his fellow-men, and founded a new empire in the East. The religion of Mohammed, it has been said, was compounded of an eternal...
Page 324 - Germany, Holland and Scotland, but in the islands of the Indian Ocean, and on the banks of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. So true, it seems, are the words of d'Aguesseau, that " the grand destinies of Rome are not yet accomplished ; she reigns throughout the world by her reason, after having ceased to reign by her authority.
Page 86 - Umbriau coast anchored in the harbor of Tarentum. The people, incited by demagogues in the assembly, attacked the vessels, and captured five, whose crews were either put to death or sold into slavery. A Roman embassy which demanded reparation in Tarentum was insulted. west.
Page 191 - Within eight years he brought under his power all the territory bounded by the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Rhine, and the Atlantic Ocean, or about what corresponds to the modern countries of France, Belgium, and Holland. He at first conquered the Helve'tii, a tribe lying on the outskirts of his own province of Narbonensis. He then met and drove back a great invasion of Germans, who, under a prince called Ariovis'tus, had crossed the Rhine, and threatened to overrun the whole of Gaul. He then pushed into...
Page 290 - Maximian wrote him urging him to endeavor, with him, to regain the power they had laid aside, he replied : " Were you but to come to Salona and see the vegetables which I raise in my garden with my own hands, you would no longer talk to me of empire.
Page 342 - The nations which have stood out foremost among all have been the Greeks, the Romans, and the Teutons. And among these it is the Romans who form the centre of the whole story. Rome alone founded a universal Empire in which all earlier history loses itself, and out of which all later history grew.