The Gracchi, Marius, and SullaScribner's, 1877 - 217 Seiten |
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Seite 28 - Roman who has an altar that has belonged to his ancestors or a sepulchre in which their ashes rest. The private soldiers fight and die to advance the wealth and luxury of the great, and they are called masters of the world without having a sod to call their own.
Seite 21 - ... when such is the tone of society, and such the idols before which it bends, a nation must be fast going down hill. " A more repulsive picture can hardly be imagined. A mob, a moneyed class, and an aristocracy almost equally worthless, hating each other, and hated by the rest of the world ; Italians bitterly jealous of Romans, and only in...
Seite 173 - ... the onset. While he was deliberating about the matter, a gentle breeze bore from a neighbouring field a quantity of flowers that fell on the shields and helmets of the soldiers, in such a manner that they appeared to be crowned with garlands. This circumstance had such an effect upon...
Seite 131 - He told them that when he was very young, and lived in the country, an eagle's nest fell into his lap, with seven young ones in it*. His parents, surprised at the sight, applied to the diviners, who answered, that their son would be the most illustrious of men, and that he would seven times attain the highest office and authority in his country.
Seite 28 - Without houses, without any settled habitation, they wander from place to place with their wives and children, and their generals do but mock them when, at the head of their armies, they exhort...
Seite 21 - A more repulsive picture can hardly be imagined. A mob, a moneyed class, and an aristocracy almost equally worthless, hating each other and hated by the rest of the world; Italians bitterly jealous of Romans and only in better plight than the provinces beyond the sea; more miserable than either, swarms of slaves beginning to brood over revenge as a solace to their sufferings; the land going out of cultivation; native industry swamped by slave-grown imports; the population decreasing; the army degenerating;...
Seite 21 - ... of slaves beginning to brood over revenge as a solace to their sufferings; the land going out of cultivation ; native industry swamped by slavegrown imports ; the population decreasing ; the army degenerating; wars waged as a speculation, but only against the weak ; provinces subjected to organized pillage ; in the metropolis childish superstition, wholesale luxury, and monstrous vice. The hour for reform was surely come.
Seite 31 - ... itself under the garb of law and order. The second was no longer what it had been — the recognised refuge and defence of the poor. The rich, as Tiberius in effect argued, had found out how to use it also. If all men who set the example of forcible infringement of law are criminals, Gracchus was a criminal. But in the world's annals he sins in good company ; and when men condemn him, they should condemn Washington also. Perhaps his failure has had most to do with his condemnation. Success justifies,...
Seite 43 - The man who originates is always so far greater than the man who imitates, and Caius only followed where his brother led.
Seite 185 - No doubt to his mind there was a sort of judicial retribution in all this bloodshed ; and, as he tried to make himself out the favourite of the gods, so by formally announcing the close of the proscription lists for June i, 81 BC, he spread some veil of legality over his shameless...