... Cambyses's court. The sons of all the nobles and officers of
the court were educated together, within the precincts of the royal palaces, or, rather, they spent their time
together there, occupied ... along, of the mode of hunting, of the
difficulties of hunting, the characters and the habits of the various wild beasts, and of the dangers to be
shu...
... interested him; the accounts of the contentions, the
rivalries, the exploits of these warriors, the delineations of their character and springs of action, and the
narrations of the various incidents ... with the main
body of the army, from Sestos to Abydos. Alexander overtook them on their march, not far from the place of
their landing. To the northward of...
... plan. Their own position,
too, as they were already in possession of the capitals and the fortresses of the country, aided them; and then
the name of Smerdis, being the same with that of the brother ... of
Prexaspes, of which they had just been informed. They heard the tumult and the outcries of the eunuchs at the
doors, and seized their arms, the one a bow...
... marks the result of their work. The
survival of their instinct and of their first impulse in the work of to-day is the ineffaceable title which these
precursors have acquired to the gratitude of ... structure; it is the formation of the proletariat in the bosom of the great industry and
of the modern state. It is the appearance of the proletariat up...
... to their sway.
One of the most memorable events which occurred during the time that the Romans
held possession of the island of Britain was the visit of one of the emperors to this
northern ... the landing of the
Pilgrims on the Plymouth Rock marks the [page 46]true commencement of the history
of the American Republic, so that of the Anglo-Sax...
... as by the loss of the one he gained the other. The cloud of his grief was embellished with the
gilded edgings of joy. The Prince of Bearn now assumed the title and the style of the King of Navarre, ... Slaughter of the
Protestants The battle Courage of the Prince of Condé The defeat Death of the Prince of
Condé Retreat of the Protestants F...
... 21
which they would make in the world, appearing with the announcement on the title-page that they were the
work of a child of seven years old. He thought well of these sonatas, independently of their ... Tennyson.
Music in the best sense has little need of novelty, on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed
to it, the greater is the effect it p...
... shower of arrows upon him, while they were in the act of advancing at the top of their
speed. Then, dropping their bows by their side, they would draw their sabres, and be ready, as soon as the
horses ... of there. The King of Kurga put him into a sack, sewed up the mouth of
it, and then laid him across the wooden image of an ass, and left him there to die of hunge...
... winds of heaven, by order of the Supreme Court of the city.
CHAPTER III.
THE STAMP-ACT RIOT OF 1765.
Thorough Understanding of the Principles of Liberty by the People The Stamp Act How viewed by the
Colonists ... out to the help of the Mayor, while the watchmen fell on the
mob with their clubs. They soon stretched on the pavement more than their own numbe...
... description of the methods of history The future of history 316
The utility of history Not directly applicable to present conditions—
Affords an explanation of the present—
Helps (and is helped by) the ... conceptions of history- writing The ancient and mediæval ideal—
The " ;history of civilisation" The modern historical "manual"—
The
ro...