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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ory tablets and hung up pro rostris, that they night be read by the whole people; after approval, they were permanently engraved on bronze and deposited in the Capitol, where a large collection was melted upon the occasion of the conflagration occasioned by that edifice being struck by lightning. The Cretans also used bronze records. Among the ancient inscriptions on bronze yet extant are the Scriptum de Bacchanalibus, Imperial Library; Trajan's Tabula Alimentaria ; the helmet found at Cannae with Punic letters, in the museum at Florence, and various others in the Italian museums, containing inscriptions in Etruscan and Latin. A deed for land, engraved on copper in Sanscrit characters and bearing date about 100 B. C., was dug up at Mongheer in Bengal. The grantor was a Bideram Gunt. Pliny informs us that such documents were rolled up like a cylinder. Two letters are still preserved which passed between Pope Leo III. and Luitbrand, king of the Longobards. Montfaucon noti
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
d and rotten lion. Events, too, under Providence, are our masters. For the Rebels there can be no success. For them, every road leads to disaster. For them, defeat is bad, but victory worse; for then will the North be inspired to sublimer energy. The proposal of Emancipation which shook ancient Athens followed close upon the disaster at Chaeronea; and the statesman who moved it vindicated himself by saying that it proceeded not from him, but from Chaeronea. The triumph of Hannibal at Cannae drove the Roman Republic to the enlistment and enfranchisement of eight thousand slaves. Such is history, which we are now repeating. The recent Act of Congress, giving freedom to slaves employed against us, familiarly known as the Confiscation Act, passed the Senate on the morning after the disaster at Manassas. Xv. This bill, which passed the Senate on the 22d of July, and was voted for by every Republican, declared: That whenever any person, claiming to be entitled to the ser
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xiv. (search)
irst instance in history where God has turned the wickedness of man into a blessing; nor will the example of Samson stand alone, when he gathered honey from the carcass of the dead and rotten lion. Events, too, under Providence, are our masters. For the Rebels there can be no success. For them, every road leads to disaster. For them, defeat is bad, but victory worse; for then will the North be inspired to sublimer energy. The proposal of Emancipation which shook ancient Athens followed close upon the disaster at Chaeronea; and the statesman who moved it vindicated himself by saying that it proceeded not from him, but from Chaeronea. The triumph of Hannibal at Cannae drove the Roman Republic to the enlistment and enfranchisement of eight thousand slaves. Such is history, which we are now repeating. The recent Act of Congress, giving freedom to slaves employed against us, familiarly known as the Confiscation Act, passed the Senate on the morning after the disaster at Manassas.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ave taken from me. I govern myself by two principles: the one is honor, and the other the interest of the State which Heaven has given me to rule. The laws which these principles prescribe to me are, first, never to do an act for which I should have cause to blush, if I were to render an account of it to my people; and the second, to sacrifice for the welfare and glory of my country the last drop of my blood. With these maxims I can never yield to my enemies. Rome, after the battle of Cannae,—your great Queen Eliza- chap. XVII.} 1761. June. beth, against Philip the Second and the invincible armada,—Gustavus Vasa, who restored Sweden,—the Prince of Orange, whose magnanimity, valor, and perseverance founded the republic of the United Provinces,—these are the models I follow. You, who have grandeur and elevation of soul, disapprove my choice, if you can, All Europe turns its eye on the beginning of the reign of kings, and by the first fruits infers the future. The king of E
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