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... Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , on his way to Spain , to serve in the Roman army before Numantia , travel- led through Italy , he was led to observe the evils , which sla- very had entailed on the provinces of his country . The great ...
... Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , on his way to Spain , to serve in the Roman army before Numantia , travel- led through Italy , he was led to observe the evils , which sla- very had entailed on the provinces of his country . The great ...
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... Tiberius Gracchus had appeared as a mes- senger before its ramparts , than the gates opened , the natives of Spain thronged round his steps , hung on his arms , and clung to his hands . They bade him take from their public stores ...
... Tiberius Gracchus had appeared as a mes- senger before its ramparts , than the gates opened , the natives of Spain thronged round his steps , hung on his arms , and clung to his hands . They bade him take from their public stores ...
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... Gracchus . It is our object to state results , not to narrate . We pass over ... Gracchus seemed established by the unani- mous decision of the commons in ... Tiberius , to be beaten to death by the clubs of senators . Three hundred of ...
... Gracchus . It is our object to state results , not to narrate . We pass over ... Gracchus seemed established by the unani- mous decision of the commons in ... Tiberius , to be beaten to death by the clubs of senators . Three hundred of ...
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... Tiberius Gracchus , the retributive Nemesis , indignant at the evils which followed in the train of slavery , lighted the torch , which , though it burned secretly for a while , at last kindled the furies of social war , and involved ...
... Tiberius Gracchus , the retributive Nemesis , indignant at the evils which followed in the train of slavery , lighted the torch , which , though it burned secretly for a while , at last kindled the furies of social war , and involved ...
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... Tiberius Gracchus , continued by his eloquent and equally unhappy brother , who moreover was the enlight- ened and energetic advocate of a system of internal improve- ment in Italy , aimed at ameliorating the condition of the indigent ...
... Tiberius Gracchus , continued by his eloquent and equally unhappy brother , who moreover was the enlight- ened and energetic advocate of a system of internal improve- ment in Italy , aimed at ameliorating the condition of the indigent ...
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Seite 448 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Seite 450 - By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher ! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.
Seite 449 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Seite 449 - Ah! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers! richlier burn, ye clouds! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves ! And kindle, thou blue Ocean! So my Friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Seite 448 - As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Seite 443 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Seite 487 - Read no letters, books, or papers in company ; but when there is a necessity for doing it, you must ask leave.
Seite 448 - Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy : Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven...
Seite 317 - I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister. I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the duty which I owed to my people.
Seite 450 - For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...