The myths of the peoples under the empire of the Incas in Peru are extremely interesting, because almost all mythical formations are found existing together, while we have historical evidence as to the order and manner of their development.
The political and religious condition of the Peruvian empire is very clearly conceived and stated by Garcilasso.
In his account of Peruvian religion, Garcilasso distinguishes between the beliefs of the tribes previous to the rise of the Inca empire and the sun-worship of the Incas.
Amongst its employments this army has had to face, also, the forces of a great Empire and troops armed and trained by Britain herself.
He became the idol of that part of Paris known as Belleville, where artisans and laborers united with the rabble of the streets in hating the empire and in crying out for a republic.
But, resting on the sword alone, the Assyrian empireperished by the sword.
On the Egyptian side hieratic papyri of the new Empire (which began about 1587 B.
The complacency of empire with a century's power was a handicap, no doubt.
England had to spread her energy out over a vast empire with an army that had barely escaped annihilation.
If you asked the officers for the secret of the Indian Empire they said: "We try to be fair to the natives!
Canada is part of the British Empire and a precious part; but the Canadians, all imperial politics aside, fought their way into the affection of the British army, if they did not already possess it.
A little shy, very desirous to learn, is Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empire of India.
The British regular army has policed an empire and sent punitive expeditions against rebellious tribes with paucity of numbers, in a work which the British so well understand.
There was no firing in our neighbourhood; nothing to indicate a state of war between the British Empire and Germany; no visual evidence of any German army in France except that flare.
Is there any real gentleman throughout the Empire State who would, in his heart, approve of this ridiculous hustling together of well-bred and ill-bred?
May we never see the Great Empire States in such an undignified position again!
Here we come upon one of those defects in the society of the empire which seem gradually to have sapped the virility of the population--the desire to get others to do for you what you are unwilling or unable to do for yourself.
Both the history of the trade gilds and that of the religious collegia or sodalitates conduct us by a course of natural development to that extraordinary system of private association with which the empire was honeycombed.
The coaling stations, actual and potential, of the empire are unrivalled in number, in convenience of geographical distribution, and in resources.
The fortification of the coaling stations for the British empire is still proceeding on a scale which, in some cases, cannot easily be reconciled with the principles laid down by the president of the cabinet committee of defence.
Having thus founded the empire of British India, Clive's painful duty was to create a pure and strong administration, such as alone would justify its possession by foreigners.
Then new difficulties arose with the Empire of the Parthians.
For the past century, the vastness and power of the administration that governed the Empire has been greatly admired.
The unity of the Empire was due far more to this great economic development that began under Augustus than to the political action of the early emperors.
For the mighty Gulf is ours,-- The bay is lost and won, An Empire is lost and won!
The soil of new-gained empirewith slavery's seeds of woe?
Burr had incurred the enmity of Jefferson and most of the other leading politicians of the time, and they were led to believe that he was preparing an expedition against the southwest, to set up a separate empire there.
But ere the sun went toward the tardy night, The valley then beheld the light Of freedom's victory; And wooded Tryon snatched from British arms The empire of a million farms-- On bright Oriskany.
Since first thy people's chief and seer Looked up with that prophetic thought, Bade Time unroll The fateful scroll, And empire unto Freedom gave From cloudland height to tropic wave.
We will make ye the mold of an empire here in the land ye scorn, While ye drowse and dream in your well-housed ease that States at your nod are born.
One time we pour out millions to be free, Then rashly sweep an empire from the sea!
If, therefore, I be a heretic, as brother Marcellus of Ancyra ignorantly supposeth, what have the empire or its laws to do with that?
But if the Eastern Empire shall be subverted, they will just as truly say, "We foretold that.
Then the emperor said, musingly: "Would that it were possible for me at this time to occupy the same relation to the Eastern Churches that so happily obtains in the Empireof the West!
Thinking that he would win the Roman Empire for the Church, he had betrayed and sold the cause of Christ to Constantine.
The Emperor Constantine hath bribed the god to influence me so that he may invade and overthrow mine empire while my fleet is far away.
If thou dost so believe concerning the Empireof the West," said Constantine, "perhaps thou wouldst not decline to enter the service of its emperor in thine own country.
Of course the observers had seen nothing, had no conception that the headquarters of the Invisible Empire lay below.
Yet all this availed little unless the location of the Invisible Empire could be ascertained, and, despite telegraphic reports that came in hourly, alleging to have discovered its headquarters, nothing had been achieved in this direction.
He was released when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up, and for a time I lost track of him.
The twelve airships that followed Dick's contained enough bombs to put the headquarters of the Invisible Empire out of business for good.
The transition from favourite to tyrant can be swift and very simple, and I soon had an Empire which I ruled over like a Caesar.
He was full of plans for turning his property there into a beautiful heritage for Dickie and at the same time helping on Mr Rhodes's great scheme of Empire by developing the land to the utmost.
In 1524 a successor went over to the empire under Charles V.
If General Freire's information was correct, there was evidently a desire to restore San Martin to the Empire of Peru!
I do not mean to search for consolation in conflicts, notwithstanding, I dare to assure you, that the iniquitous and tyrannical empire of the Spaniards in Peru will cease in the year 1823.
In the Moghul Empire of Northern India it was exactly what "King's English" was in the Anglo-Norman kingdom in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The later empire referred to was an empire only in the old sense of a collection of vassal states.
But of any Indian empirefounded by him, we know nothing.
Indeed, it is to the good man's enthusiasm for Newport that we owe his burst of poetical prophecy, "Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Henry Delamarre, who in the days of the Empire enjoyed a short period of most remarkable success, having won the French Derby no less than three times within four years.
Not even the overthrow of the old Roman empire was so colossal a disaster as this.
This justification of the British empire is, nevertheless, as in the case of Rome, after the fact, and does not justify morally the building up of the empire.
Looking at the map of Europe, one sees that the geographical relation of Germany to the great Slavic empire is not unlike the relation of Holland to Germany.
When Rome reached out, however, to the mastery of the most impressive empire the world has seen, she never dreamed of extending that freedom to the conquered populations.
Thus the deliberate fostering of fear of the vast empire of the East has done much to strengthen the hands of the Prussian regime in its chosen task.
The anomaly of the first two years of the War was the presence of the vast Russian autocratic empire on the side of the allied democracies.
It is true we came late on the stage of history, and, starting as a democracy, were instinctively opposed to empire building.
Further, it is our duty to have done with all dream of empire building.
It is that which holds the British empire together.
He wrote: "I openly profess that a complete victory of theEmpire would not benefit the Social Democracy.
No doubt also he was considered a fanatic by those who failed to comprehend the greatness of his schemes, and to realize, as he did, the importance of securing the new empire to the English before it was occupied by the Spanish and the French.
At any rate there is evidence that in the Turkish Empire as late as 1616 tobacco was still somewhat a novelty, and the smoking of it was regarded as vile, and a habit only of the low.
This country will not submit to the degradation which England would inflict upon it, and which no other European nation appears inclined to aid the insular empire in inflicting.
No empire could effect an internal change like that which the Czar has begun, and at the same time carry on a war that would require immense expenditures and the active services of a million of men.
He abhorred the "peculiar institution" of his empire with all the force of a mind that certainly was generous, and which had a strong bias in the direction of justice.
Assuming that the work of emancipation is to be peacefully and successfully accomplished, it would be fair to argue that the power of the Russian Empire will be incalculably increased through the elevation of the masses of its population.
Russia is an empire that abounds with the means of wealth, rather than with wealth itself.
Her climacteric is not come; hers is not yet a nation's manhood even; though now in childhood, she anticipates her youth, and lusts for empire like any czar.
Redeem the women's ruin'd cause, Retrieve lost empire to our sex, That men may bow their rebel necks.
Pigs and fanatics, cows and teagues, Through all myempire I foresee, To tear thy hedges join in leagues, Sworn to revenge my thorn and me.
According to his physician, then his daily companion, his imagination shoved him his own conduct as a noble effort to regenerate the country by the establishment of an empire resting upon the will of the nation.
General Castelnau, who landed at Vera Cruz on October 10, was starting on his mission, the object of which was to force the abdication of Maximilian, and to bring about the winding up of the empire and the immediate return of the army.
But a far more serious danger was threatening theempire in the North.
Corta, who were not more successful in bringing the revenues of the empire up to its requirements.
As soon as this was known, an uneasy feeling spread over Mexico caused by a rumor that the empire was at an end, and that Maximilian was leaving the city, never to return.
Six months had not elapsed since the regent Almonte had turned over to the young Emperor the quasi-consolidated empire conquered by Marshal Bazaine, and thinking men already foresaw the end.
And now the only hope of the empire rested upon the power of Empress Charlotte to induce the courts of Austria, Belgium, Rome, and especially the court of France, to grant a reprieve to the tottering empire by lending it further support.
No sooner had Sonora sent in its adhesion to the empire than Jecker proposed to the French government to make over his rights against a payment of two million dollars.
Exportation of antiquities found in theEmpire is forbidden.
Antiquities imported must be reported to the directorate of antiquities, and may not be sent from one part of the Empire to another, or re-exported, without permission from the Director-General.
The whole Empire cried "Well done," and all the world wondered at this hero from the slums.
These men represent the finest Empire the world has ever seen.
At the outpost of Empire he had seen the evil work of Prussian hands.
But the far-flung boundaries of England's Empire are marked everywhere by graves like his.
The regiment was on its way to garrison widely separated posts in outlying parts of the Indian Empire and neighbouring countries.
