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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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e calendar, which served the West till 1582, andserves Russia still ; a recasting of the whole provincial administration ; a codi-fication of Roman law ; a census of the Empire ; a uniform gold coinage ; a pub-lic library ; a metropolitan police; building regulations; sanitary regulations;an alteration of the course of the Tiber, which would have drained the marshes—all these grand projects, and more, some carried to completion, some onlysketched out, teemed from the active brain of the great organizer, in the briefmoments he could spare from military cares in these last months of his life—adevouring activity, an all-embracing capacity, such as perhaps never shone forthin man before or since. What Roman incorporation meant for the ancientworld was at last revealed. The war havoc of seven centuries had found itsjustification. In the midst of this glorious and beneficent career, at the age of fifty-five(57?). Caesar, whose frank and fearless spirit disdained suspicion or precaution,
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Io < COUJQ liJ It- MARC ANTONY 37 was assassinated by a knot of rancorous, perfidious aristocrats, whom he hadpardoned and promoted. Their purblind spite was powerless to avert the inevi-table advent of monocracy. What they did effectually extinguish for more thana century, was the possibility of amnesty, conciliation, and mutual confidence.Careless as usual of historical truth, the great English poet has glorified the mur-derers of Caesar. Dante, never forgetting the moral responsibility of art, hasreserved the lowest circle of hell for Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot. It imports little to the greatness of such a one as Caesar, to add that in an ageof oratory he stood in the first rank of orators; that his historical writings arean unrivalled model of vigor, lucidity, and elegance ; that he carried his scien-tific culture to a point very unusual among his countrymen ; and that his per-sonal prowess and feats of endurance were the admiration of veteran soldiers.Women loved him,

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