Jacob Abbott > Quotes

“Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.”
― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots

“Wherever we are posted, there we stand, come life or death, to the end.”
― Jacob abbott, Xerxes

“Sensuality begins sometimes with kindness, but it ends always in the most reckless and intolerable cruelty.”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

“Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose.”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Julius Caesar

“journey had been”
― Jacob Abbott, Hannibal

“as Citus said:alexender is right not to bear freeborn men at his table who can only tell him the truth. He is right. It is fitting for him to pass his life among barbarians and slaves, who will be proud to pay their adoration to his Persian girdle and his splendid robe”
― Jacob Abbott, Alexander the Great

“They who wanted office were accustomed to bribe influential men among the people to support them, sometimes by promising them subordinate offices, and sometimes by the direct donation of sums of money; and they would try to please the mass of the people, who were too numerous to be paid with offices or with gold, by shows and spectacles, and entertainments of every kind which they would provide for their amusement. This”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Julius Caesar

“dressed in mourning—in white—according to the custom in royal families in those days,”
― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots

“III. As to my having desired to obtain the crown otherwise than by obedience to my father, and following him in regular order of succession, all the world may easily understand the reason; for, when I was once out of the right way, and resolved to imitate my father in nothing, I naturally sought to obtain the succession by any, even the most wrongful method. I confess that I was even willing to come into possession of it by foreign assistance, if it had been necessary. If the emperor had been ready to fulfill the promise that he made me of procuring for me the crown of Russia, even with an armed force, I should have spared nothing to have obtained it. "For instance, if the emperor had demanded that I should afterward furnish him with Russian troops against any of his enemies, in exchange for his service in aiding me, or large sums of money, I should have done whatever he pleased. I would have given great presents to his ministers and generals over and above. In a word, I would have thought nothing too much to have obtained my desire." This confession, after it was brought to the Czar by Tolstoi, to whom Alexis gave it, was sent by him to the great council of state, to aid them in forming their opinion. The council were occupied for the space of a week in hearing the case, and then they drew up and signed their decision. The statement which they made began by acknowledging”
― Jacob Abbott, Peter the Great

“considerate in respect to the feelings of all who were connected with him”
― Jacob Abbott, Alexander the Great Makers of History

“CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA.”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Julius Caesar

“as Citus said: alexender is right not to bear free borne men at his table who can only tell him the truth.vIt is fitting for him to pass his life among brbarians and slaves, who well be proud to pay their adoration to his persian girdle and splendid robe.”
― Jacob Abbott

“King Francis, in addition to other complaints, had been suffering for some time from pain and disease in the ear.”
― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots

“Xerxes BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS”
― Jacob Abbott, Xerxes Makers of History

“and honor.”
― Jacob Abbott, Alexander the Great Makers of History

“So get you gone out of my presence, miserable traitors as you are.”
― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots

“wretched”
― Jacob Abbott, Darius the Great

“He acquires a knowledge of his rights by attending justly to his interest, and discovers in the event that the strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it, and that, in order "to be free, it is sufficient that he wills it.”
― Jacob Abbott, Strategy Six Pack 12 - A Short History of Rome, Nero, The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813, The Rights of Man, Nat Turner and Travels into Bokhara

“terrible”
― Jacob Abbott, Peter the Great

“The term Tartars has been employed generically to denote almost the whole race. The Monguls are a portion of this people, who are said to derive their name from Mongol Khan, one of their earliest and most powerful chieftains.”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“Whenever there was any foreign war to be carried on with a distant nation or tribe, there was always a great eagerness among all the military officers of the state to be appointed to the command. They each felt sure that they should conquer in the contest, and they could enrich themselves still more rapidly by the spoils of victory in war, than by extortion and bribes in the government of a province in peace. Then, besides, a victorious general coming back to Rome always found that his military renown added vastly to his influence”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Julius Caesar

“Genghis Khan BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“T he name of the father of Genghis Khan is a word which can not be pronounced exactly in English. It sounded something like this, Yezonkai Behadr, with the accent on the last syllable, Behadr, and the a sounded like a in hark. This is as near as we can come to it; but the name, as it was really pronounced by the Mongul people, can not be written in English letters nor spoken with English sounds. Orthography of Mongul names.”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“Scarcely anything presents a more degrading character of national greatness, than its being thrown into confusion, by anything happening to or acted by any individual; and the ridiculousness of the scene is often increased by the natural insignificance of the person by whom it is occasioned.”
― Jacob Abbott, Strategy Six Pack 12 - A Short History of Rome, Nero, The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813, The Rights of Man, Nat Turner and Travels into Bokhara

“Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose. It is comparatively but a small number in any age of the world, and in any nation, whose passions of ambition, hatred, or revenge become so strong as that they love bloodshed and war. But these few, when they once get weapons into their hands, trample recklessly and mercilessly upon the rest. One ferocious human tiger, with a spear or a bayonet to brandish, will tyrannize as he pleases over a hundred quiet men, who are armed only with shepherds' crooks, and whose only desire is to live in peace with their wives and their children.”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Julius Caesar

“khans, and settling disputes of various kinds”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“William, duke of Normandy, to the English throne.”
― Jacob Abbott, William the Conqueror Makers of History

“The fate of the grand empire which Genghis Khan established was the same with that of all others that have arisen in the world, from time to time, by the extension of the power of great military commanders over widely-separated and heterogeneous nations. The sons and successors to whom the vast possessions descended soon quarreled among themselves, and the immense fabric fell to pieces in less time than it had taken to construct it.”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“T he name of the father of Genghis Khan is a word which can not be pronounced exactly in English. It sounded something like this, Yezonkai Behadr,”
― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan

“PETER THE GREAT.”
― Jacob Abbott, Peter the Great