Not in vain have Germany's educational institutions inculcated the belief in her population that the British Empire is an effete monstrosity with feet of clay; France a rotten, decaying empire, and Russia a barbarian Power with no new Kultur to offer Europe except the knout.

Our Indian Empire is on every occasion on which these discussions occur, or these troubles occur, or these settlements occurour Indian Empire is to England a source of grave anxiety, and the time appeared to have arrived when, if possible, we should terminate that anxiety.

Their Empire is an accident.

Either this magnificent empire should be their plantation, or it should perish.

A fearful blow was struck at her agriculture; decay settled on her manufactories; money became too scarce to pay the necessary expenses of the king's exchequer; and that once mighty empire became a fallen kingdom, pierced by her crimes and dragged down by her transgressions.

We want all our peoples to understand, and we want all mankind to understand that our Empire is not a net about the world in which the progress of mankind is entangled, but a self-conscious political system working side by side with the other democracies of the earth, preparing the way for, and prepared at last to sacrifice and merge itself in, the world confederation of free and equal peoples.

The Empire is Peace, as usual.

Historically speaking, the Russian Empire is an extension of the old Roman Empire; it is the direct heir of the Eastern Roman Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople, as the mediaeval "Holy Roman Empire," founded by Charlemagne in A.D. 800, was the heir of the Western Roman Empire, which had its capital at Rome itself.

For this is not the Aurora of golden purple, of laughing flowers and jewelled dew-drops; but the dark Enchantress, enthroned on rocks, or craggy mountains, and whose proper empire is the shadowy confines of light and darkness.

Step by step and stage by stage the Roman Empire became a warfare state maintained at home and abroad by the intervention of the military.

This empire was not a real nation, but a collection of many different nationalities which had little sympathy with each other.

Colonizing empires became the dominant force in Europe and in the non-European segments of the planet which were gradually brought under European imperial control.

The more successful colonizing empires of the seventeenth and eighteen centuries became the strongholds of nineteenth century monopoly capitalism.

The Empire we intend to found will be no Utopia.

Ancient defeated empires are sounds and emptiness; therefore the Assyrian and Persian monarchies become, in his limbo of vanities, a heap of positive bladders.

Their empire was a union of confederated states, and did not form one nation; this facilitated its conquest.

Yet is their empire no true growth but humour, And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour.

The chief reason lies, of course, in the fact that the German Empire is not a democracy and is not governed by ministers responsible to Parliament.

THE NEW EMPIRE The New Empire (1600-1200 B.C.) was the great period of foreign conquest.

The Empire wasn't a word to him.

He had displaced a Palaeologus by an Osmanli only in order that an empire long in fact Osmanli should henceforth be so also de jure.

But the empire of Libya was only half of the power of Carthage; its maritime and colonial dominion had acquired, during the same period, a not less powerful development.

The present empire of Morocco is properly the Mauritania Tingitania of the Romans, as the Mauritania Cæsariensis comprised Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis; and was so called from the Emperor Claudius.

But the most signal service he rendered the Empire was a successful resistance to the barbarians of Germany, who had formed a general union for the invasion of the Roman world.

Contemporaneous with Dante, one of the most distinguished citizens of this mercantile mart, Marco Polo, impelled by the curiosity which reviving commerce excited and the restless adventure of a crusading age, visited the court of the Great Khan of Tartary, whose empire was the largest in the world.