 Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 4591877Full view - About this book
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 794 lehte
...is nothing to stop you. Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. Either some Caesar or Xapoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand,...and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions." We may take this for what it is worth; but it requires no Macaulay,... | |
 | 1916 - 736 lehte
...letter to an American friend, he wrote: "Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seise the reins of the Government with a strong hand or your republic will...laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as thz Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman... | |
 | Mary Foote Henderson - 1904 - 794 lehte
...government and rule with an iron hand, or your country will be as fearfully plundered and laid to waste in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth century, with this difference : the Huns and Vandals that ravaged Home came from without her borders,... | |
 | Henry Franklin Ring - 1905 - 306 lehte
...has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by the barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with the difference that... | |
 | 1905 - 722 lehte
...Macaulay prophesied concerning us: "As for America, I appeal to the twentieth century. Either some Cssar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - 190 lehte
...has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...within your own country by your own institutions." The historian Freeman prophesied the exchange of ambassadors between the North and the South before... | |
 | 1906 - 594 lehte
...has entered on its downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Osar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth. 478 479 Curious that Macaulay's fears for America should not have been felt by Americans themselves... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1907 - 382 lehte
...society has entered on its downward course, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Cssar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth." APPENDIX D BIBLIOGRAPHY Charity and Philanthropy Addams, Jane, Philanthropy and Social Progress. TY... | |
 | James Jerome Hill - 1908 - 34 lehte
...will produce fresh spoliation. . . . Either civilization or liberty will perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire in the fifth." We need not accept this gloomy picture too literally, but we have been already sufficiently... | |
 | 1909 - 540 lehte
...destroy liberty or civilization or both. Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with...within your own country by your own institutions." How much longer will rational man attempt to correct results and ignore the causes — causes that... | |
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