Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 19 Ovations 06Cake Guess chose the topics covered by Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 19 without reflecting upon the choices others have made. Talking with friendly strangers in the middle of a natural disaster and shaping new plans is another way to look at things in a different light. |
OvationsOvation 01Ovation 02 Ovation 03 Ovation 04 Ovation 05 Ovation 06 Ovation 07 Ovation 08 Ovation 09 Ovation 10 Ovation 11 Ovation 12 Ovation 13 Ovation 14 Ovation 15 Ovation 16 Ovation 17 Ovation 18 Ovation 19 Ovation 20 Ovation 21 Ovation 22 Ovation 23 Ovation 24 SitemapsSitemap 1Sitemap 2 Sitemap 3 |
Perhaps he married somebody's daughter. If a man would get hold of the public ear, he must pay, marry, or fight. I have never understood that AEschylus was a man of means, and the fighters do not write poetry, so I suppose he must have married a theatrical manager's daughter, and got his plays brought out that way. The ear of any age or country is like its land, air, and water; it seems limitless but is really limited, and is already in the keeping of those who naturally enough will have no squatting on such valuable property. It is written and talked up to as closely as the means of subsistence are bred up to by a teeming population. There is not a square inch of it but is in private hands, and he who would freehold any part of it must do so by purchase, marriage, or fighting, in the usual way--and fighting gives the longest, safest tenure. The public itself has hardly more voice in the question who shall have its ear, than the land has in choosing its owners. It is farmed as those who own it think most profitable to themselves, and small blame to them; nevertheless, it has a residuum of mulishness which the land has not, and does sometimes dispossess its tenants. It is in this residuum that those who fight place their hope and trust. |
The career of Marius had hitherto been a glorious one, and it would have been fortunate for him if he had died on the day of his triumph. The remainder of his life is full of horrors, and brings out into prominent relief the worst features of his character. As the time for the consular elections approached, Marius became again a candidate for the Consulship. He wished to be first in peace as well as in war, and to rule the state as well as the army. But he did not possess the qualities requisite for a popular leader at Rome; he had no power of oratory, and lost his presence of mind in the noise and shouts of the popular assemblies. In order to secure his election, he entered into close connection with two of the worst demagogues that ever appeared at Rome, Saturninus and Glaucia. |
More Ovations From Cake Guess
| ||
This page is Copyright © Cake Guess. All Rights Reserved. Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 19 is a production of Cake Guess and may not be reproduced electronically or graphically for commercial uses. Personal reproductions and browser or search engine caching are acceptable. | ||