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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f extendingthe pomoerium of the city was completed by his successor. Other plans of hiswere even further delayed. Many years passed before the Pomptine marsheswere drained. His scheme of changing the course of the Tiber, so as to en-large the Campus Martius, was never followed out, nor did he cut through theIsthmus of Corinth. He shone as a leader among the intellectual men of his time. While hewas modest and affable in his intercourse, none talked or wrote better than he.His Commentaries, despite the great length of some of the sentences, remainsas a monument of his extraordinary skill as a historian and writer. He wasabstemious among the free livers, and Cato has said of him that, of all the revo-lutionists of his day, he alone took up his task with perfect soberness at alltimes. In this respect he was a marked contrast to Alexander. Moreover, it is impossible to study the character of the man without givinghim credit for nobility of purpose. He judged rightly, when he felt that the
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ANTONY OFFERING TO CROWN C/CSAR Rome—Ccesar Refuses the Crown 389 only safety of Rome lay in its government by a wise, firm, and discreet ruler,and certainly there was none in that age who so fully met the requirements ofthe position as himself. The blot upon the character of Caesar is that he ac-cepted the blind, sacrilegious idolatry of his people without protest, and thathis private life was scandalous. He openly declared his unbelief in immortal-ity, and lived defiantly with Cleopatra as his wife, though he never made hersuch. But worldly ambition is never satisfied, and grows by what it feeds on. Hebecame restless. The stirring excitements of military life and the incentive toput forth his best exertions were lacking, and the fact oppressed him. Hebecame haughty and capricious, and, like Napoleon at St. Helena, dreamed ofthe glories of his past campaigns and longed to engage in more. Broodingover all this, he formed the plan of crushing the Parthians, conquering thebarbarians o

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