...a just nation is trusted on its word when re course is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we... ... with all nations whilst so many of them were engaged in bloody and wasteful wars, the fruits of a just policy were enjoyed in an unrivaled growth of ... ...d be come much agitated and some of them seriously con vulsed. Destructive wars ensued, which have of late only been terminated. In the course of th... ...and powerful fleet. It was, indeed, to the ambition of the leading States of Greece to control the domestic concerns of the others that the destructio... ...nsfer of American control to the new government is of such great importance, involving an obligation resulting from our intervention and the treaty of...

...a totally different consideration. The question of di vorce, in the sense involving liberty of remarriage, is one into which it is foreign to my purp... ... as much may be said of domestic slavery. It was quite an ordinary fact in Greece and Rome for slaves to submit to death by torture rather than betray... ...ather than betray their masters. In the pro scriptions of the Roman civil wars it was remarked that wives and slaves were heroically faithful, sons v... ...ipate in elections, but themselves to hold offices or practise professions involving important public respon sibilities; I have already observed that... ...re men of encyclopaedical acquire ments and powers, like the great men of Greece. But in their times fine art was, to men’s feelings and concep tion...

...lv’d his anxious life in endless cares, Expos’d to wants, and hurried into wars! Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite... ... it was in fate; Nor could forget the war she wag’d of late For conqu’ring Greece against the Trojan state. Besides, long causes working in her mind, ... ...e saw, in order painted on the wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall: The wars that fame around the world had blown, All to the life, and ev’ry leade... ..., and his Indian crew. Penthisilea there, with haughty grace, Leads to the wars an Amazonian race: In their right hands a pointed dart they wield; The... ...to wind and weather lay. There was their fleet conceal’d. W e thought, for Greece Their sails were hoisted, and our fears release. The Trojans, coop’d... ...ains, my words shall be sincere: I neither can nor dare my birth disclaim; Greece is my country, Sinon is my name. Tho’ plung’d by Fortune’s pow’r in ... ...quests of imperial Rome Rome, whose ascending tow’rs shall heav’n invade, Involving earth and ocean in her shade; High as the Mother of the Gods in p...

...ecurity that can be devised against hostilities from abroad. The number of wars which have happened or will happen in the world will always be found t... ..., which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people. Bu... ... be wise, it would, nevertheless, be natural. The history of the states of Greece, and of other countries, abounds with such instances, and it is not ... ...e, and that those three were almost constantly em- broiled in quarrels and wars with one another. Notwithstand- ing their true interest with respect t... ..., stimulated by private pique against the Megarensians,* another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threat- ened as an acco... ... out of the contentions which so often distracted the ancient republics of Greece? Different answers, equally satisfactory, may be given to this quest... ...nning through every part of the society, cannot be particularized, without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the inst... ...ce them, alto- gether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbecility, confusion, a... ... an objection to the principle of a guaranty in the federal government, as involving an officious interference in the domestic concerns of the members...

...ustrious class who are neither slaves nor slave owners (as was the case in Greece), they need, probably, no more to insure their improvement than to m... ... Oriental people, in that condition it continues to stagnate; but if, like Greece or Rome, it had realized any thing higher, through the energy, patri... ...n. The proofs of this are apparent in every page of our great historian of Greece; but we need scarcely look further than to the high quality of the a... ...the law lords would leave the business of legislation, except on questions involving politi cal principles and interests, to the professional legisla... ...e tragical fate of the second Edward and the second Richard, and the civil wars and dis turbances of the reigns of John and his incapable successor. ... ...isites are not fulfilled by the expedient of a limitation of the suffrage, involving the compulsory ex clusion of any portion of the citizens from a ... ...e justified in dismissing him at the first moment when a ques tion arises involving these, and on which there is not so as sured a majority for what... ... federally united as to their relations with for eigners, both to prevent wars among themselves, and for the sake of more effectual protection agains... ...ch a federation is more likely to be a cause than a preventive of internal wars; and if such was not its effect in Switzerland until the events of the...

...o Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke’s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular his tory, except school abridgme... ...tory of his Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from t... ...o be my strongest predilection, and most of all ancient history. Mitford’s Greece I read con tinually; my father had put me on my guard against the T... ...rossed all the interest in my mind which I had previously felt in the mere wars and conquests of the Romans. I dis cussed all the constitutional poin... ...son to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logic... ... all the time he could spare be ing already taken up with his History of Greece . The article he wrote was on his own subject, and was a very comple... ...any active concern in temporary politics, and from any literary occupation involving personal communication with contributors and others, I was enable... ...hest, next to that of Secretary, in the East India Company’s home service, involving the general superintendence of all the correspon dence with the ...

... direct modes of mutual influ- ence, stand associations in common pursuits involving the use of things as means and as measures of results. Even if th... ...ife, then the appliances become the positive resources of civilization. If Greece, with a scant tithe of our material resources, achieved a worthy and... ...ieved a worthy and noble intel- lectual and artistic career, it is because Greece operated for social ends such resources as it had. But whatever the ... ...eans the direction of power into special channels: the formation of habits involving executive skill, definiteness of interest, and specific objects o... ... the future, toward the production of pos- sible consequences, an attitude involving effort to fore- see clearly and comprehensively the probable resu... ... social. It originated, so far as con- scious formulation is concerned, in Greece, and was based upon the fact that the truly human life was lived onl... ... far to seek. Increasing trade and travel, colonizations, migra- tions and wars, had broadened the intellectual horizon. The customs and beliefs of di...

...ions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subj... ...ers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a nec essarily antagonistic position to the people whom th... ...its, of combination among individuals; freedom to unite, for any purpose not involving harm to others: the persons combining being supposed to be of f... ...ects for the exercise of authority: they have laid on bad taxes, made unjust wars. Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocat... ...ht we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars? Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There ... ... love of liberty or of improvement, is antagonistic to the sway of Cus tom, involving at least emancipation from that yoke; and the contest between t...

...dy, as over the body of Patroclus, there has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For ... ...her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms supply recording gold? Here, rising bo... ...o sing of Cæsar’s fame; Meanwhile, permit that my preluding Muse In Theban wars an humbler theme may choose: 50 Of furious hate survivin... ...cares Phoroneus’ towers defend, 350 Must I, O Jove! in bloody wars contend? Thou know’st those regions my protection claim, Glorious in a... ...ved. With honest scorn the first famed Cato view’d Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she subdued: 40 Your scene precariously subsists too l... ... your fame; And little would be left you, I’m afraid, If all your debts to Greece and Rome were paid. From this deep fund our author largely draws, No... ...: V ol. 2 And ‘scape the martyrdom of Jakes and fire: A Gothic library! of Greece and Rome Well purged, and worthy Settle, Banks, and Broome. 267 But,...

...s called Bendis in Thrace, Bubastis in Egypt, Dian in Rome, and Artemis in Greece. There was a Grand Turk from Stamboul. He could not help thinking th... ...ffair so delicate—so delicate, I 131 V olume Four repeat, and at the time involving the interests of a third party whose sulphurous resentment I have... ...at the popular preju- dices and vulgar errors in regard to pestilences and wars — errors which were wont to prevail upon every appearance of a comet—w... ... indefinite, and was the shadow nei- ther of man nor of God—neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldaea, nor any Egyptian God. And the shadow rested up...