It is remarkable that this mountain lies at the point where three great empires meet, namely, Russia, Persia, and Turkey.
Now Tartary belongs to the great empireson each side of it,--Russia and China.
Far in thy realm, withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom; And glorious ages, gone, Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb.
If we accept the accounts given us, here rose an empire which will not suffer by comparison with the flourishing empires of early times in Oriental lands.
Ever since then we have seen exactly what we saw in Europe from 1789 onward, when the first political republic was established, and all the monarchies and empires of the world banded themselves together to stamp it out.
The money price of the the greater part of manufactures, therefore, will naturally be much lower in those great empires than it is anywhere in Europe.
But the European colonies in America are more remote than the most distant provinces of the greatest empires which had ever been known before.
The first accounts of the two empires of Peru and Mexico greatly exaggerated, ib.
Soon England, France, and the Netherlands were sending exploring and trading expeditions abroad, and somewhat later they all aimed at colonial empires comparable with that of Spain.
For a career destined to be scarcely inferior to that any of the great empires of history, Spain had at the beginning of this period an inadequate and undeveloped political organization.
Mighty and brilliant empires have there risen and fallen; great cities have flourished and disappeared.
Kingdoms and empires and republics have risen and fallen, but Damascus has stood unchanged.
The fate of empires glowing in his thought, Thus armed, the tented field Valdivia sought.
There comes a period of drought, and the hunger-maddened nation, accompanied by its flocks, hurls itself suddenly upon feebler agricultural peoples, destroying empires and founding them.
Owing to the political relations into which the people of Israel and Judah were brought to the empires of the Tigris and Euphrates valley, the compilers of the historical books of The O.
Records reach through the Middle and New Empires testifying that robbers pillaged tombs for jewelry and gold, and today the Arab traffics constantly in the spoils of the tombs--above which, in many cases, he lives.
At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall!
Cilicia passed successively into the Persian and Macedonian empires and formed part of the Seleucid dominions.
There is nothing in their condition or history to distinguish them from many other insignificant peoples whose destiny it was to come in contact with the world-empires of antiquity.
No Hindu empires have lasted long, and the Maurya dominions broke up fifty years after his death.
There was no attempt to overwhelm whole empires by pouring into them masses of troops, but commerce was combined with territorial acquisition, and a continuity of European interest secured by the presence of merchants and settlers.
Empires in heaven he with more ease may give, And you, perhaps, would with less thanks receive; But heaven has need of no such viceroy here, Itself bestows the crowns that monarchs wear.
This state of affairs affords a most interesting object lesson, teaching how ancient empires gradually become divided and disintegrated under dual government and under the influence of rival cults.
The existence of such opposite views clearly explains the ultimate outbreak of hatred and war between monotheistic Israel and Juda and the ancient empires of Western Asia which shared, with them, a remote but common origin.
Sayce's "Ancient Empires of the East" furnishes further interesting details concerning the Phoenicians.
Though he condemned magic as an imposture, he wrote on alchemy, and with the simplicity of enthusiasm he hoped to find the philosopher's stone, and to read the fall of empires in the stars.
It is in his lecture on pagan empires that Ozanam lays down the principle on which his views of mediaeval history are based: "Each epoch has a ruin and a conquest--a decadence and a renaissance.
Alexander the Great, Napoleon the First, all the great warrior heroes swam in blood and left behind them subjugated peoples, who at the first opportunity rose and brought their empires to ruin.
This campaign must, therefore, take rank with those few remarkable strategic movements in the world's history, which have decided the fate of empires and nations.
But behind the Southern Slavs stands Russia, and any attempt to change the political status in the Balkans has thus meant, for years past, acute risk of war between the two Empires that border them.
The baby sovereign of one of the vastest and oldest of empires is shown here in the lap of his father.
Apologizing for this little digression, I proceed now to consider very briefly the danger of future conflict between the two great empires which have come within striking distance of each other.
We are both inland empiressituated in the centre of Europe, surrounded by many different nations, all of whom may bear some grudge against us.
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