Word: rome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Constitutions, which, by reason of the length of their history, and the influence which they have exercised on statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly...
...Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died a month after each other.' 2. 'The Gordian knot was a very difficult knot which Nero tied, and by means of which he kept the empire of Rome in subjection...
...naturally in Italy, who had never forgotten her relationship to ancient Rome, and where the knowledge of Latin literature had never altogether died out, that the revival first took place. It may be said to have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe...
...coming winter term. This department will not seek to give technical instruction, but will consist of lectures on the history of art. Prof. Allen Marquand will offer a course to the senior class on art in antiquity, with special reference to the arts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome. Prof. Prince, of New York, will lecture on the histories of various arts. President McCosh has consented to give a few lectures on aesthetics, and Prof. Osborne on the anatomy of facial expression. The college already possesses several valuable art collections. Among these are interesting collections illustrating the arts of Mexico...
...trustees of Cornell have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university, from the American sculptor. Story, who is now working in Rome...