The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness, in one day, of an iron way that shall last for all time.
Hoar reflects on the enduring impact of Roman engineering as described by the poet Statius.
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When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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