eBooks „autocracy“
3 eBooks were found for the search term „autocracy“.
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Ellen G. White
Absolute Power
- Juvenile Fiction
- English
- 229922 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 81
Nothing causes a prince to be so much esteemed as great enterprises and giving proof of prowess ... He may almost be termed a new prince, because from a weak king he has become for fame and glory the first king in Christendom, and if you regard his actions you will find them all very great and some of them extraordinary. At the very beginning of his reign he assailed a city, and that enterprise was the foundation of his state. At first he did it at his leisure and without fear of being interfered with; he kept the minds of the (elite) occupied in this enterprise, so that thinking only of that war they did not think of making innovations, and he thus acquired reputation and power over them without their being aware of it. He was able with the money of the Church and the people to maintain his armies, and by that long war to lay the foundations of his military power, which afterwards has made him famous. Besides this, to be able to undertake greater enterprises, and always under the pretext of religion, he had recourse to a pious cruelty... [more]
Keywords: caesar, power of rome, autocracy, dictatorship, tyranny
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Edward Howard Griggs
The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy Of The World War In Relation To Human Liberty
- Philosophy
- English
- 26679 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
THE SOUL OF DEMOCRACY THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD WAR IN RELATION TO HUMAN LIBERTY BY EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS
Man for the State means autocracy and imperialism; MAN FOR MANKIND is the soul of democracy. 1918 [more]
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History Of england From The Accession Of james Ii Vol. 2
- History
- English
- 224023 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history.
Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency. Karl Marx referred to him as a "systematic falsifier of history".[2] His tendency to see history as a drama led him to treat figures whose views he opposed as if they were villains, while his approved characters were presented as heroes. Macaulay goes to considerable length, for example, to absolve his hero King William III of any responsibility for the Glencoe massacre (1692) [more]
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