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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
abella, the fourth, only six years old, who has a bewitching mischievous beauty, which came from I know not where. After dinner he carried me into his study, and spread out a quantity of his literary projects before me,—his Life of Wesley, which is in the press, his Brazil, to be finished in a month, his Spanish War, to which he has prefixed an interesting preface on the moral state of England, France, and Spain, between 1789 and 1808; and, finally, a poem on the War of Philip,— not him of Macedon, but our own particular Philip, recorded by Hubbard and Church,—and as this is more interesting to an American than any other of the works, it is the one I most carefully followed, as he read me all he has written of it. Oliver Newman was left unfinished. Mr. Southey promised Mr. Ticknor the autograph manuscript of this poem when it should have been published, and this promise was remembered and redeemed, after the poet's death, by his children. Mr. Ticknor had a pleasant correspondence <
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of Valentine's Recumbent figure of Lee at Lexington, Va., June 28th, 1883. (search)
the siege of Yorktown, a thing had happened that probably had no parallel in history. The great body of General Johnston's army had reorganized itself under the laws of the Confederacy, while lying under the fire of the enemy's guns, the privates of each company electing by ballot the officers that were to command them. A singular exercise of suffrage was this, but there was a free ballot and a fair count, and an exhibition worthy of That fierce Democracy that thundered over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. —an exhibition which would have delighted the heart of Thomas Jefferson, and which certainly put to blush the autocratic theory that armies should be mere compact masses of brute force. Still later on, May 31st, Johnston had sallied forth and stormed and taken the outer entrenchments and camps of McClellan's army at Seven Pines, capturing ten pieces of artillery, six thousand muskets, and other spoils of war, and destroying the prestige of the second On to Richmond
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
This has been His method since the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Sacrafice, atonement, expiation blood letting have ever been the precursors of nationality. It is a costly sacrifice, a royal price to pay, because it is life. God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. The wars of His favorite people show this, the expurgation of their sins, their nationalization was in blood letting. It was by the effusion of blood that the King of Macedon confirmed the alliance that bound Thrace, Illyria, Greece, Egypt and Persia to his throne and secured him the title of Alexander the Great —the world conqueror. It was in the shedding of blood that Rome, the greatest nation of ancient times, forged those ties that made her the empress of the world and her legions invincible. It was in a holocaust of blood that the Cross was carried by Spain into the halls of the Montezumas and they christianized and became a part of this ancient people.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
Barbary, in quest of men, laid the foundations of Greek commerce; each commercial town was a slave-mart; and every cottage near the sea-side was in danger from the kidnapper. Thucydides, l. i. c. v. Greeks enslaved each other. The Chap. V.} language of Homer was the mother-tongue of the Helots; the Grecian city that made war on its neighbor city, exulted in its captives as a source of profit; Arist. Pol., l. i. c. 2, censures the practice, which was yet the common law. the hero of Macedon sold men of his own kindred and language into hopeless slavery. The idea of universal free labor had not been generated. Aristotle had written that all mankind are brothers; yet the thought of equal enfranchisement never presented itself to his sagacious understanding. In every Grecian republic, slavery was an indispensable element. The wide diffusion of bondage throughout the do minions of Rome, and the extreme severities of the Roman law towards the slave, contributed to hasten the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
s have uttered thoughts of beauty and passion, of patriotism and courage; none by words accomplished deeds like him. His voice resounded throughout the world, impelling the servants of the British state to achievements of glory oil the St. Lawrence and along the Ganges. Animated by his genius, a corporation for trade did what Rome had not dreamed of, and a British merchant's clerk made conquests as rapidly as other men make journeys, resting his foot in permanent triumph where Alexander of Macedon had faltered. Ruling with unbounded authority the millions of free minds whose native tongue was his own, with but one considerable ally on the European continent, with no resources in America but from the good — will of the colonies, he led forth the England which had planted popular freedom along the western shore of the Atlantic, the England which was still the model of liberty, to encounter the whole force of the despotisms of Catholic Europe, and defend the common cause against what h
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
extended from the Mediterranean to the nations bordering on India, and from the extreme south of Egypt to the Caspian — Babylon, its capital, was 2,500 miles from Macedon — and he had but 40,000 men to commence his enterprise with. But he knew perfectly well the full extend of the danger he had to encounter. He had calculated allgained a victory over the Scythians. In 328, he forced the passage of the Oxus, and subjected the neighboring nations, after having received 16,000 recruits from Macedon. In 327 he passed the Indus and defeated Porus, the most difficult of all his achievements. It was then that he wished to pass the Ganges, but was frustrated byuppose he had been beaten at Arbela, where he had the desert, and the Euphrates and Tigris in his rear-had no fortresses, and was nearly three thousand miles from Macedon. Or, suppose he had lost the battle with Porus, and it was very stoutly contested. He was still farther from home, had still no fortresses; had still an additio
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
of Louisa. This was the people's champion, the great orator of nature, equaling, if not surpassing, the stirring and commanding eloquence of him who-- "Wielded at will that fierce Democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon, and Artaxerge's throne." Such were Richard Henry Lee, and Patrick Henry, the Virginia Isocrates, and the Virginia Demosthenes; and such were the actors in the House of Burgesses of 1766. The day appointed for the discussion of Mr. Hedes and Tacitas, who had come up to witness this great contest of various talents. The scene before him reminded this young Virginian of the time when Demosthenes, before an Athenian audience, thundered his dread anathemas against the tyrant of Macedon, or of the time when Cicero pleaded the cause of the poet Æchais. It was at this debate, on the Stamp Act in 1765, that Thomas Jefferson imbibed those principles which ten years later were embodied in the Declaration of Independence. The d
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Billy Wilson — the Pet of the ladies. (search)
vert the dreadful calamity.--The sneers and mockings that were out to be indulged in in regard to Southern chivalry, have been changed to anxious doubts and gloomy forebodings. The most boastful champion of Northern prowess feels that there is a foe before him worthy of his steel; and no amount of sectional self-esteem can disguise the terrible fact, that when the legions of the North and South meet in the shock of war, such deeds will be done as when "Greek fought Greek" upon the plans of Macedon. The military skill of the Confederate leaders makes itself apparent in every move.--Their caution, their deliberation, their energy and thorough preparation, are too palpable to be denied; to talk of starving them into subjection is to argue a gross ignorance of the quiet, yet vigorous pre-arrangements commenced while the world was yet laughingly incredulous of an appeal to arms. The gigantic scale upon which the Commander in-Chief of the Federal forces has gathered in the military r
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Struck by lightning. (search)
Ages of great Generals. In a standard work on military art and science, we find some facts connected with the ages of great soldiers, which show that in that department of human action, youth, with some illustrious exceptions, has carried off most of the laurels. Philip of Macedon, at the age of forty-five, had conquered all Greece. Alexander the Great gained a military reputation at the age of eighteen. At twenty-five he had conquered the world! Julius Cæsar distinguished himself before the age of twenty-two. He completed his first war in Spain before the age of forty. He conquered all Gaul and twice passed over to Britain before the age of forty-five. At fifty-two he had won the field of Pharsalla, and died at fifty-six, "the victor of five hundred battles, and the conqueror of a thousand cites. " Hannibal commenced his military career at twenty-two, and was made Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian army at twenty-six. He was victorious in Spain and France, and w
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
When the Greeks had destroyed the navy of Xerxes, at Salamis, and had sent that monarch in terror back to Susa, Mardonins, the general whom he had left behind to finish the work he had so unfortunately begun, thought it would be a master-stroke of policy to detach the Athenian from the Grecian alliance. To accomplish this object, he sent to them Alexander, the son of Amyntas, King of Macedon, and ancestor of Alexander the Great, with proposals both from himself and from the "Great King," as the Persian monarch was styled. Alexander had joined the Persians upon compulsion, and was, at the bottom, a true friend to Greece in general, and to Athens in particular. He really believed that they would not be able to withstand the power of Xerxes, and spoke from his heart when he advised them to yield while it was yet time, and avoid the terrible consequences of conquest after a protracted resistance. He delivered the message of Mardonins, which was in these words (we extract the pa
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