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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...to me mattered nothing. I was but a human beast like himself. But the land was holy, and he betrayed it The land had received him with hope as a virgin her bridegroom, and as a wedding gift he brought misery and bondage to the innocent who had trusted him.' He had risen from his seat in the force of his passion; his voice regained almost the strength of its early maturity; his sunken eyes blazed, and his Olympian brows seemed clothed with thunder. Othyris stood before him as a young and timid pilgrim may have stood before the Zeus, with the lightnings in flame about his head. He spoke no word; he dared offer no defence; he knew that every syllable of the reproach was true. Had he not said these same things in his own thoughts ever since the earliest years of the garbled lessons given him in the story of his race, and in the share it had played in the liberation of the country? Theodoric had been a fine soldier; when he had cried to his troops, ' Follow, follow, follow, children ' they had gone headlong after the gleam of his naked sabre, and would have followed him into the jaws of hell itself. But ambition is like a solvent acid; in it all pure and precious qualities dissolve and disappear; and the joy of adding territory to territory, treasure to treasure, title to title, is as a crucible in which all other feelings are burnt up and perish; it is an appetite which has the passions of the miser, of the conqueror and of the lover, all fused into one. 'If you like not to hear these truths of the man who bred you and yours, why come you hither, young prince?' 'They are truths, sir, ' said Elim wearily, 'and I am tired of phrases and of falsehoods.' The old hero looked at him with keen but not unkind gaze. 'Come out from a Court, then, and dig for your daily br.
| ISBN-13 | 9781150348549 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150348542 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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