But to come to those who, by their own ability and not through fortune, have risen to be princes, I say that Moses,
Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and such like are the most excellent examples.
His foot was fleet, his aim true, his apprehension quick, his heart glad and high; and all who anticipated the return of Indian war spoke of
Cyrus Bourne as a future leader in the land.
The true marshalling of the degrees of sovereign honor, are these: In the first place are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths; such as were Romulus,
Cyrus, Caesar, Ottoman, Ismael.
Dowler; 'my friend, Angelo
Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, M.C.; Bantam; Mr.
Delia Weeks, for example, was a maiden lady who did dressmaking in a small way; she fell ill, and although attended by all the physicians in the neighborhood, was sinking slowly into a decline when her cousin
Cyrus asked her to come and keep house for him in Lewiston.
A kingdom, as we have said, partakes much of the nature of an aristocracy, and is bestowed according to worth, as either virtue, family, beneficent actions, or these joined with power; for those who have been benefactors to cities and states, or have it in their powers to be so, have acquired this honour, and those who have prevented a people from falling into slavery by war, as Codrus, or those who have freed them from it, as
Cyrus, or the founders of cities, or settlers of colonies, as the kings of Sparta, Macedon, and Molossus.
The son Of Macedonian Philip had ere these Won Asia, and the throne of
Cyrus held At his dispose; young Scipio had brought down The Carthaginian pride; young Pompey quelled The Pontic king, and in triumph had rode.
Its managing director, the intelligent
Cyrus Field, purposed even covering all the islands of Oceanica with a vast electrical network, an immense enterprise, and one worthy of American genius.
By the reception that the public gave to his telephone, he learned to sympathize with Howe, whose first sewing-machine was smashed by a Boston mob; with McCormick, whose first reaper was called "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow, and a flying- machine"; with Morse, whom ten Congresses regarded as a nuisance; with
Cyrus Field, whose Atlantic Cable was denounced as "a mad freak of stubborn ignorance"; and with Westinghouse, who was called a fool for proposing "to stop a railroad train with wind."
His name is
Cyrus Brisk and his folks moved up from Markdale.
This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of
Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment.
* passage through the interminable volumes of the Grand
Cyrus.