The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . men. The schemewhich in his Panegyric had attracted them with its glowingcolors, lost its special charms when it was seen to mean nothingmore than obedience to the dictates of a foreign master. Tothe Greeks of Lesser Asia the overthrow of the Persian despotwould bring not the coveted liberty of tearing each other inpieces, but merely a change of lords. To the world at largeit was a matter of not much consequence; and for themselvesit may be doubted whether the strong repression of a foreignpower was not a better thing than t
The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . men. The schemewhich in his Panegyric had attracted them with its glowingcolors, lost its special charms when it was seen to mean nothingmore than obedience to the dictates of a foreign master. Tothe Greeks of Lesser Asia the overthrow of the Persian despotwould bring not the coveted liberty of tearing each other inpieces, but merely a change of lords. To the world at largeit was a matter of not much consequence; and for themselvesit may be doubted whether the strong repression of a foreignpower was not a better thing than the freedom which duringthe whole course of their history had been little more than afine name for feuds, factions, and internecine war. —Sir G. W. Cox. ^:^.
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