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He merely desired the comforts of the world, without its cares. He wanted his small farm of a few acres, as Horace wanted it, and Cincinnatus, and thousands of statesmen, soldiers, and merchants, from their days down to ours; his small farm, on which, however, the sun must always shine, and where no weeds should flourish. Poor Mr. Brown!
The example of Cincinnatus is not to be compared with that of the modern scientist, for these workers surpass Cincinnatus immeasurably, in their power of bringing glory and salvation to humanity.
"The senate has declared you Master of the People, and have sent us to call you to the city; for the consul and the army in the country of the Æquians are in imminent danger." Without further words, Cincinnatus accompanied them to the boat in which they had crossed the Tiber, and was rowed in it to the city.
There were several prominent public men at the time who would have given all they owned for the position, but they were set aside for the man who did not want it, the bold jurist who dared to set himself against the veteran statesmen of his country. It reads like a Bible-tale, or the story of Cincinnatus taken from his plow to become dictator.
I shall be sorry for him, though." Bixiou. He's rich; his wife gives parties and doesn't ask me, me, who go everywhere! Henry. "You are so rich, you!" Bixiou. "Not bad, my Cincinnatus! But you'll give me that dinner at the Rocher de Cancale." Poiret. "It is absolutely impossible for me to understand Monsieur Bixiou."
Your fame would have been safe, your country without reproach, and I should not have the mortifying task of pointing out the blind temerity with which you come forward to defend the religion of Christ, who exist in the violation of its most sacred obligations, of the dearest ties of humanity, and in defiance of the sovereign calls of morality and liberty by dealing in HUMAN SLAVES." Again, after asserting that "posterity will in vain search for the monuments of wisdom" in his administration, he says they will, on inquiry, find that had he obtained promotion, as he expected, for the services rendered after Braddock's defeat, his sword would have been drawn against his country; and that they would discover "that the great champion of American freedom, the rival of Timoleon and Cincinnatus, twenty years after the establishment of the republic, was possessed of FIVE HUNDRED of the HUMAN SPECIES IN SLAVERY, enjoying the fruits of their labor without remuneration, or even the consolations of religious instruction that he retained the barbarous usages of the feudal system, and kept men in livery and that he still affected to be the friend of the Christian religion, of civil liberty, and moral equality and to be, withal, a disinterested, virtuous, liberal, and unassuming man."
Had Cincinnatus ruled in England, he would never have abandoned a kingdom for a ploughshare; such an act would have been looked upon, at least by more than half the nation, as proceeding from weakness rather than from true strength of mind.
"Now, sir," Squire Cady said heartily, "we'll go into my office and attend to business. I'm not equal to Cincinnatus, whom they found plowing his field, but I can take care of my garden. Come in, sir, come in." Chamberlain followed the tall spare old figure into the house.
When they had greeted each the other, the messengers said, "May the Gods prosper this thing to the Roman people and to thee. Put on thy robe and hear the words of the people." Then said Cincinnatus, being not a little astonished, "Is all well?" and at the same time he called to his wife Racilia that she should bring forth his robe from the cottage.
"He is asked to take a post again by those who dismissed him long ago. That shows that he did his work well, so that they feel the want of him." "Like Cincinnatus hooray!" said Ben, riding on his chair, with a pleasant confidence that discipline was relaxed. "Will they come to fetch him, mother?" said Letty, thinking of the Mayor and Corporation in their robes. Mrs.
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