Origins of Democracy: Or, Rise of the Common Man; Being a Treatise on Social Evolution from Babylon to the Bastile, Culminating in the Sovereignty of the People, Том 1Times-mirror Press, 1923 |
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... Assyria which , after a few moments of grandeur , vanishes in the common wreck , and with it pass those wonderful city builders from the Karan Valley , in Persia . We see glimpses of their gods and temples , now lying in ruins around us ...
... Assyria which , after a few moments of grandeur , vanishes in the common wreck , and with it pass those wonderful city builders from the Karan Valley , in Persia . We see glimpses of their gods and temples , now lying in ruins around us ...
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... Assyrians , Medes and Persians , but in each case the over- lord in his own person enacts the combined role of sol- dier , high - priest , king , and legislator . Whenever he dele- gates power to a lesser official , that man in turn ...
... Assyrians , Medes and Persians , but in each case the over- lord in his own person enacts the combined role of sol- dier , high - priest , king , and legislator . Whenever he dele- gates power to a lesser official , that man in turn ...
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... Assyria , Babylon , are side by side . within a few hundred miles north and south ; all part of the identical Mother Land at one time of the posterity of Nimrod and Noah . Yet geological science makes plain that mankind was on the Earth ...
... Assyria , Babylon , are side by side . within a few hundred miles north and south ; all part of the identical Mother Land at one time of the posterity of Nimrod and Noah . Yet geological science makes plain that mankind was on the Earth ...
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... Assyrian , 1300 B. C. to 625 B. C .; and the later Babylonian , 625 B. C. to 538 B. C. All of this you should not try to get into your head , like the multiplication table ; but instead merely think of times very long since passed away ...
... Assyrian , 1300 B. C. to 625 B. C .; and the later Babylonian , 625 B. C. to 538 B. C. All of this you should not try to get into your head , like the multiplication table ; but instead merely think of times very long since passed away ...
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... wells of bitumen provide a natural mortar or cement . Assyria , the land higher up the stream , has copper , lead , silver , antimony , sulphur , alum , petroleum and salt . It rains in the winter , instead FIRST TRACES OF DEVELOPMENT 77.
... wells of bitumen provide a natural mortar or cement . Assyria , the land higher up the stream , has copper , lead , silver , antimony , sulphur , alum , petroleum and salt . It rains in the winter , instead FIRST TRACES OF DEVELOPMENT 77.
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Стр. 139 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Стр. 139 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Стр. 137 - And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Стр. 52 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Стр. 54 - What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : MEN, high-minded MEN...
Стр. 139 - The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you...
Стр. 294 - There is a country in Libya, and a nation, beyond the Pillars of Heracles, which they are wont to visit, where they no sooner arrive but forthwith they unlade their wares, and, having disposed them after an orderly fashion along the beach, leave them, and, returning aboard their ships, raise a great smoke. The natives, when they see the smoke, come down to the shore, and, laying out to view so much gold as they think the worth of the wares, withdraw to a distance. The Carthaginians upon this come...
Стр. 221 - One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat with distinctness : that the world is built somehow on moral foundations ; that, in the long run, it is well with the good ; in the long run, it is ill with the wicked.
Стр. 43 - But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal, they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions. All these have their different measures and their different standards; one set of opinions for one age, another set for another. They pass away like a dream; they are as the fabric of a vision, which leaves not a rack behind.
Стр. 137 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.