Comparative Politics: Six Lectures Read Before the Royal Institution in January and February, 1873, with The Unity of History; the Rede Lecture Read Before the University of Cambridge, May 29, 1872

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Macmillan & Company, 1874 - 522 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 405 - Agriculturae non student ; majorque pars eorum victus in lacte, caseo, carne consistit ; neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Sayfa 485 - A Gothic Bishop, perhaps, thought it proper to repeat such a form in such particular shoes or slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head...
Sayfa 153 - Riches, and lands, and power, and state — ye have them: — keep them still. Still keep the holy fillets; still keep the purple gown, The axes, and the curule chair, the car, and laurel crown: Still press us for your cohorts, and, when the fight is done, Still fill your garners from the soil which our good swords have won.
Sayfa 387 - Narbonensi transivisse? manent posteri 15 eorum nee amore in hanc patriam nobis concedunt. quid aliud exitio Lacedaemoniis et Atheniensibus fuit, quamquam armis pollerent, nisi quod victos pro alienigenis arcebant? at conditor nostri Romulus tantum sapientia valuit, ut plerosque populos eodem die hostes, dein cives habuerit.
Sayfa 445 - ... eyes, and it was not without a melancholy pride that they saw the terrible conqueror himself yield to the spell of the Roman name, and do homage to the enduring majesty of their legitimate sovereign e.
Sayfa 484 - Homer, in order to establish among them an union, which was so necessary for their safety, grounds his poem upon the discords of the several Grecian Princes who were engaged in a confederacy against an Asiatic Prince, and the several advantages which the enemy gained by such their discords.
Sayfa 405 - ... all standing together as one unit in respect of other similar communities ; all governed by the same judges and led by the same captains ; all sharing in the same religious rites ; and all known to themselves and to their neighbours by one general name.
Sayfa vii - the establishment of the Comparative Method of study has been the greatest intellectual achievement of our time. It has carried light and order into whole branches of human knowledge which before were shrouded in darkness and confusion
Sayfa 375 - Homer's type of an alien and less advanced civilisation; for the almost physical loathing which a primitive community feels for men of widely different manners from its own usually expresses itself by describing them as monsters, such as giants, or even (which is almost always the case in Oriental mythology) as demons.
Sayfa 367 - has there been witnessed the struggle of the highest individual genius against the resources and institutions of a great nation, and in both cases the nation has been victorious. For seventeen years Hannibal strove against Rome ; for sixteen years Napoleon Bonaparte strove against England : the efforts of the first ended in Zama ; those of the second in Waterloo.

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