Any other view of progress is dreary and discouraging; nor is this inconsistent with great catastrophes and national backslidings, with the fall of empires, and French Revolutions.

She is fighting, moreover, not only on behalf of the threatened freedom of Belgium, France, and Serbia, on behalf of the unborn freedom of Poland, Alsace-Lorraine, and the subject races of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, but also on her own behalf.

I believe that the desire and motive for large and mighty empires, for gigantic armies and mighty navies ... will die away.

So Time's strong arms with sweeping scythe erase Art's cumberous works, and empires, from their base; While each young Hour its sickle fine employs, And crops the sweet buds of domestic joys!

" For whom alone, saith Plotinus, "we must forsake the kingdoms and empires of the whole earth, sea, land, and air, if we desire to be engrafted into him, leave all and follow him.

It was impossible, he thought, for one religion to be universal: you see that one small province can hardly be ruled by one law, civil or spiritual; and "how shall so many distinct and vast empires of the world be united into one?

For the first of chance, as Sallust likewise informeth us, those old Romans generally received; "They supposed fortune alone gave kingdoms and empires, wealth, honours, offices: and that for two causes; first, because every wicked base unworthy wretch was preferred, rich, potent, &c.;

In the Bible we read how the "rewards of divination" seduced from his allegiance to God the splendid enchanter of Mesopotamia: "In outline dim and vast Their fearful shadows cast The giant form of Empires on their way To ruin:one by one They tower

And empires fell beneath a summer wind.

It began in 476, on the fall of Agustulus, and ended in 1453, at the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II., and consequently the fall of two empires, that of the West and that of the East, marks its duration.

The other sons of Ham settled Egypt and Assyria, and, conjointly with Shem, Persia, and afterward, to some extent, the Grecian and Roman empires.

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY, GIRARD, KAN. Ruins of empires.

VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANÇOIS CHASSEBOEUF, comte de. Ruins of empires, edited by John Mason.

Tout ce que vous avez De la face de l'homme est un mensonge infâme; Vous avez quelque bête effroyable au lieu d'âme; Sigismond l'assassin, Ladislas le forban, Vous êtes des damnés en rupture de ban; Donc lâchez les vivants et lâchez les empires!

That heart, of which thou could'st not be deprived By any force or power, beside thy own; Like empires, to that fatal height arrived, They must be ruined by themselves alone.

It may be concerned with the construction and decoration of cities, kingdoms and empires.

If Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians built extensive empires and massive civilizations that flourished for a time, then broke up and disappeared, are we to follow blindly and unthinkingly in their footsteps?

It is also the way of life that the West has been trying to impose upon the entire human family since European empires launched their crusade to westernize, modernize and civilize the planet Earth.

A civilization is a cluster of peoples, nations and empires so related in time and space that they share certain ideas, practices, institutions and means of procedure and survival.

These thoughts about culture and civilization should be supplemented by noting the relationship between civilizations and empires.

A civilization is a cluster or a succession of empires and/or former empires, co-ordinated and directed by one of their number which has established its leadership in the course of survival struggle.

A civilization is a cluster or a succession of empires and/or former empires, co-ordinated and directed by one of their number which has established its leadership in the course of survival struggle.

Second, it was part and parcel of a prolonged period of attempts by Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittites, Babylonians, Mycaenians, Phoenicians and others in the area to set up successful empires and to play the lead role in building a civilization that would be more or less permanent.

At the beginning of this period the Mediterranean Basin housed a number of African, Asian and European empires.

During these centuries all of the empires were defeated, conquered, occupied and either dismembered or otherwise brought under Roman control.