Great leaders:
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共 37 段- Pericles was perfectly convinced that nothing short of a per
- The man whose head and heart had in a desperate emergency an
- Partly through the constant growth of oppression naturally i
- In bestowing rewards and conferring honors upon those who ha
- As soon as Hadrian’s caprice in friendship had been gratifie
- [Flavius Claudius Julianus, born 331 A.D., died 363. He was
- Yet the piercing eye of the founder of the republic must hav
- According to the tradition of his companions, Mahomet was di
- It has been alleged, indeed, that the Saxon wars were waged
- Wide reaches of land were covered with wood, thicket and scr
- Thomas à Becket, the first man of English descent who, since
- From the spacious highlands between China, Siberia, and the
- But it was just this sensitiveness, this openness to outer i
- [Cola Gabrini Rienzi, the “last of the Roman tribunes,” born
- The kingdoms of Transoxiana and Persia were the proper field
- If Lorenzo neglected the pursuit of wealth, whereby Cosmo ha
- The ambitious Cæsar himself was turning aside the current fo
- But, as no picture is without its lights, we must not, in ju
- At the same time, they err greatly who imagine that this man
- The marriage of Anne of Cleves, however, was but the first s
- It is to be remembered, too, that he always wrought with inf
- On the whole, the Duke of Alva was inferior to no general of
- [Daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Lorraine, a pri
- A silken web of palace-politics, palace-diplomacy, palace-re
- Richelieu was one of the rulers of mankind in virtue of an i
- This was the case with Sir Thomas Wentworth, whom the king c
- He was equally unable to comprehend how any man should objec
- He was born with violent passions and quick sensibilities; b
- Nor can he be acquitted of very gross and aggravated treache
- No wonder they thought him worthy of notice! Every original
- There were faults, indeed, which were only too apparent in h
- No man had a deeper admiration for the British constitution,
- The masculine vigor and strong common sense of his arguments
- Thus endowed for playing a part, there is a strong temptatio
- Pitt’s flowing and sonorous commonplaces rang hollow beside
- Become pacific for a while, he by his laws laid the basis of
- =HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES=, from the Revol