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The records of the political contests which occupied the two years succeeding the downfall of Caius Gracchus, are sufficient to prove that political thought was not stifled, that practically any political views saving perhaps such as expressed active sympathy with the final efforts of Caius Gracchus and his friends might be pronounced, and that the nobility could only maintain its influence by bending its ear to the chatter of the streets and employing its best instruments to mould the opinion of the Forum by a judicious mixture of deference and exhortation.
That is, it will be lost, if trade there is itself sound, and not tottering under the same or similar conditions of weakness which produced the original default in this country; in which event, we submit, our troubles are to be considered as the mere accidental occasion of the more general downfall, while the real cause is to be sought in the internal state of the foreign nations.
Had she not given an example of courage ever since the downfall of the Empire? Did not all Plassans, the quarter of St. Marc, the old quarter and the new town, render homage to the noble attitude she maintained in her fall? All she asked was to be helped; she demanded from all her children an effort like her own.
It is still a friendly strength. Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future. But, as time went on, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy. We need not overemphasize imperfections in the Peace of Versailles.
She interrupted him, saying, with a purring softness: "If you had only courage enough " He waved his hand angrily. "If I had, I should hope you would prove a better friend to me than you are to this man." "Ah, in what way do I fail towards 'this man'?" "By encouraging his downfall.
The Athenians, thus reinforced, now in their turn sailed against Miletus with a hundred and eight ships, wishing to fight a decisive battle, but, as no one put out to meet them, sailed back to Samos. Twenty-first Year of the War Recall of Alcibiades to Samos Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred Battle of Cynossema
All this sounds a trifle melodramatic and quite unlike Chopin. He did not go to Warsaw, but started for France at the end of September, arriving early in October, 1831. Poland's downfall had aroused him from his apathy, even if it sent him further from her. This journey, as Liszt declares, "settled his fate." Chopin was twenty-two years old when he reached Paris.
The camp as we drew near did not present a very attractive appearance. The wigwams were such as are only used in summer a few poles, covered with buffalo hides, or deer skins, more to afford shelter from the heat of the sun, or from a downfall of rain, than protection from the cold.
"The longest way round is sometimes the shortest way home, hey, Ed?" and Frank gave him a playful poke that nearly sent him off his perch. Then they all laughed at some joke of their own, and Gus added, "No girls coming to hear us to-night. Don't think it, my son. "More's the pity," and Ed shook his head regretfully over the downfall of his hopes.
Colonel Key has been regarded by many as McClellan's evil genius, whose influence had been dominant in the general's political conduct and who was therefore the cause of his downfall. His influence on McClellan was unquestionably great, and what he said to me is an important help in understanding the general's conduct and opinions.
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