A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great, Volume 12John Murray, 1869 - 422 pagina's |
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A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the ..., Volume 12 George Grote Volledige weergave - 1869 |
A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation ... Volledige weergave - 1872 |
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Pagina 28 - HISTORY OF FRANCE; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire, 1852.
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Pagina 83 - ... to the improvement of mankind. I see no ground for adopting this opinion. As far as we can venture to anticipate what would have been Alexander's future, we see nothing in prospect except years of ever-repeated aggression and conquest, not to be concluded until he had traversed and subjugated all the inhabited globe. The acquisition of universal dominion — conceived not metaphorically, but literally, and conceived with greater facility in consequence of the imperfect geographical knowledge...
Pagina 10 - Tabulae Curiales ; or, Tables of the Superior Courts of Westminster Hall. Showing the Judges who sat in them from 1066 to 1864 ; with the Attorney and Solicitor Generals of each reign.
Pagina 83 - Indian campaigns, amidst tribes of utter strangers, we perceive that not only those who stand on their defence, but also those who abandon their property and flee to the mountains, are alike pursued and slaughtered. Apart from the transcendent merits of Alexander as a soldier and a general, some authors give him credit for grand and beneficent views on the subject of imperial government, and for intentions highly favourable to the improvement of mankind. I see no ground for adopting this opinion....
Pagina 87 - ... to the happiness of any of them, though it might serve as an imposing novelty and memento of imperial omnipotence. In respect of intelligence and combining genius, Alexander was Hellenic to the full ; in respect of disposition and purpose, no one could be less Hellenic.
Pagina 82 - ... nor, even if personally equal, would he have possessed the same variety of troops and arms, each effective in its separate way, and all conspiring to one common purpose ; nor the same unbounded influence over their minds in stimulating them to full effort. I do not think that even the Romans could have successfully resisted Alexander the Great ; though it is certain that he never throughout all his long marches encountered such enemies as they, nor even such as Samnites and Lucanians — combining...