...MORAL INFLUENCE OF THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF THE AGE.* "Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?" There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the...fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. Cun.ii]] HABOLD. Then westward ho ! in legions, boys — Fair Freedom's star Points to her sunset regions,...

...Middle Age of a state, Learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; Of jUatUmS, — Byron. THERE is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the...that fails, Wealth, Vice, Corruption — Barbarism afc last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. Jiattcmal /\ NATION'S Character...

...Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty falls.* cviii. There is the moral of all human tales ;2 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom,...fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. 1 The Palatine is one mass of ruins, particularly on the side towards the Circus Maximus. The very...

...reduce us forever to despotism. ••' There ii rti« moral of nil human mi's ; "J'ls but the s-.tme rehearsal of the past. First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption— barliansm at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one pagr." gKEBtt." APPENDIX TO...

...description is as accurate, as the reflections he makes upon it, are just; though somewhat bitter, withal: There is the moral of all human tales ; « Tis but...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page; and that — But enough of this sad theme, my friends. How. If I remember right, Aurelius. you have...

...expressed in these despairing lines — " There is the moral of all human tales, T is the same sad rehearsal of the past : First freedom, and then glory....history with all her volumes vast Hath but one page — •" And yet we profess ourselves entire disbelievers in this fatal theory, as much as in the opposite...

...hath been, that these are walls — Behold the Imperial Mount! 'tis thus the mighty falls. ' CVIII. There is the moral of all human tales ; * 'Tis but...thus amass'd All treasures, all delights, that eye or car, Heart, soul could seek, tongue ask — Away with words ! draw near, CIX. Admire, exult — despise...

...hath been, that these are walls — Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty falls. CVIII. There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the...last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath hut one page, — 'tis better written here, Where gorgeous Tyranny hath thus amass'd All treasures,...

...been, that these arc walls — Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty falls. CVII. CVIII. There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the...Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — ktrbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but tnn; page, — 'tis better...

...once famous 112 CORDOVA. city, the second in Andalusia, is now but the wreck of its former self. " There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page." • The mosque is a curious old pile ; the interior cut up into aisles by innumerable pillars of many-coloured...