A Manual of Ancient History: Particularly with Regard to the Constitutions, the Commerce, and the Colonies, of the States of AntiquityD.A. Talboys, 1833 - 480 pages |
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Page 21 - ... fabrics of power. It is also a striking fact that the governments of all the great Asiatic empires have in all ages been absolute despotisms. And Heeren is right in connecting this with another great fact, which is important from its influence both on the political and the social life of Asiatics. " Among all the considerable nations of Inner Asia, the paternal government of every household was corrupted by polygamy : where that custom exists, a good political constitution is impossible. Fathers,...
Page 373 - I was of your age, I should have been ashamed if any boy of that age had learned his book better, or played at any play better than I did ; and I would not have rested a moment till I had got before him.
Page 341 - ... the three principal states was so completely humbled, that they durst not, without the permission of Rome, begin any new war ; the fourth, Egypt, had already, in the year 201, placed herself under the guardianship of Rome ; and the lesser powers followed of themselves, esteeming it an honor to be called the allies of Rome. With this name the nations were lulled into security, and brought under the Roman yoke ; the new political system of Rome was founded and strengthened, partly by exciting and...
Page 185 - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Page 347 - ... 143. Viriathus, sometimes victorious and sometimes defeated, was never more formidable than in the moment of defeat, because he knew how to take advantage of his knowledge of the country and of the dispositions of his countrymen. After his murder, caused by the treachery of Caepio, 140, Lusitania was subdued ; but the Numantine war became still more violent, and the Numantines compelled the consul Mancinus to a disadvantageous treaty, 137. When Scipio, in the year 133, put an end to this war,...
Page 397 - The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
Page 196 - The treasures of Delphi circulating in Greece, were as injurious to the country as the ravages which it underwent. A war springing out of private passions, fostered by bribes and subsidiary troops, and terminated by the interference of foreign powers, was exactly what was requisite for annihilating the scanty remains of morality and patriotism still existing in Greece."•...
Page 370 - Pompey : besides the ancient province of Asia, the maritime countries of Bithynia, nearly all Paphlagonia and Pontus, are formed into a Roman province, under the name of Bithynia ; while on the southern coast Cilicia and Pamphylia form another under the name of Cilicia ; Phoenicia and Syria compose a third, under the name of Syria. On the other hand, Great Armenia is left to Tigranes ; Cappadocia to Ariobarzanes ; the Bosphorus to Pharnaces ; Judaea to Hyrcanus ; and some other small states are also...
Page 211 - Babylon was to be the capital of his empire, and consequently of the world. The union of the east and the west was to be brought about by the amalgamation of the dominant races by intermarriage, by education, and, more than all, by the ties of commerce, the importance of which much ruder conquerors, in Asia itself, soon learnt to appreciate. In nothing, probably, is the superiority of his genius more brilliantly displayed, than in his exemption from all national prejudice, particularly when we consider...
Page 210 - Alexander removed this difficulty by protecting the conquered from oppression ; by showing proper respect to their religion ; by leaving the civil government in the hands of the native rulers who had hitherto possessed it ; and by confiding to Macedonians the command only of the garrisons left in the chief places, and in the newly established colonies. To alter as little as possible in the internal organization of countries was his fundamental principle.