 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Authors, Latin - 1882 - 132 pages
...have come down to us from ancient times, for more than one reason. In the first place, a letter mnst be generally a contemporary account of the events...Julius Caesar. In his youth the terrible struggle of Marias and Sulla had been fought out ; in his early manhood Pompeius had been looked on as the coming... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Europe - 1906 - 524 pages
...as intellectually of the same spirit as himself. These 1 50 years constitute, potentially at least, one of the most momentous periods in the history of the world. The period was full of life, intensity, in many departments of human effort. It bore within it the... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 544 pages
...time with success raised against the head of the nation. The loss of President Lincoln at this time was one of the most momentous periods in the history of the country, not to be measured in words. The executive reins fell into the hands of the Vice-President,... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pennsylvania - 1922 - 552 pages
...time with success raised against the head of the nation. The loss of President Lincoln at this time was one of the most momentous periods in the history of the country, not to be measured in words. The executive reins fell into the hands of the Vice-President,... | |
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Cicero lived was one of the most momentous periods in the history of the world... 