Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . sweet voicesbegan to ask—ambitious intriguers, aiming at dictatorship, or perhaps the aristocracy were right, after all; a few things had gone wrong, but these had 26 WORKMEN AND HEROES been amended. The Scipios and Metelli had conquered the world: the Scipiosand Metelli were alone fit to govern it. Thus, when the election time cameround, the party of reform w^as reduced to a minority of irreconcilable radicals,who were easily disposed
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . sweet voicesbegan to ask—ambitious intriguers, aiming at dictatorship, or perhaps the aristocracy were right, after all; a few things had gone wrong, but these had 26 WORKMEN AND HEROES been amended. The Scipios and Metelli had conquered the world: the Scipiosand Metelli were alone fit to govern it. Thus, when the election time cameround, the party of reform w^as reduced to a minority of irreconcilable radicals,who were easily disposed of. Again, as ten years before, the noble lords armedtheir followers. Riots broke out and extended day after day. Caius Gracchuswas at last killed, as his brother had been, and under cover of the disturbancethree thousand of his friends were killed along with him. The power beingagain securely in their hands, the Senate proceeded at their leisure, and the sur-viving patriots who were in any way notorious or dangerous were hunted downin legal manner, and put to death or banished. ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA By Anna Jameson(reigned 267-273 ). O ^F the government and manners of the Arabiansbefore the time of Mahomet, we have few andimperfect accounts; but from the remotest agesthey led the same unsettled and predatory lifewhich they do at this day, dispersed in hordes, anddwelling under tents. It was not to those wild andwandering tribes that the superb Palmyra owed itsrise and grandeur, though situated in the midst oftheir deserts, where it is now beheld in its melan-choly beauty and ruined splendor, like an enchantedisland in the midst of an ocean of sands. Themerchants who trafficked between India and Eu-rope, by the only route then known, first colonizedthis singular spot, which afforded them a convenientresting-place ; and even in the days of Solomon it was the emporium for thegems and gold, the ivory, gums, spices, and silks of the far Eastern countries,which thus found
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