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Makers Of Europe - Being The James Henry Morgand Lectures In Dickinson College For 1930
Makers Of Europe - Being The James Henry Morgand Lectures In Dickinson College For 1930 Author:Robert Seymour Conway MAKERS OF tT R P E BEING THE JAMES HENRY MORGAN LECTURES IN DICKINSON COLLEGE FOR 1930 BY ROBERT SEYMOUR CONWAY UttD., Eon. UttJ., Hon. I amp gt. Utt. y Doff. on. Untv., Fellow of the British Academy Hon. Fellow of Gonuille and Caius College, Cambrtigt recently Hulme Professor of Latin in the University of Manchester Commendatore delta Corona de... more »l Regno fltalia CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS COPYRIGHT, 1931 BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE 3 MASS. j U. S. A. COLLEGAE DILECTO EDUARDO KENNARD RAND QUALECUNQUE HOC AMICITIAE PIGNUS DEFERO H U PREFACE THE general design of this short course of lectures is explained at the outset of the first my duty here is to render thanks to some friendly authorities who have allowed me, in parts of these lectures, to make use again of material which they have already published wholly or in part. In the lecture on Caesar, Messrs. Benn Bros, have kindly allowed me to embody a page or two from the chapter on Caesar in the booklet on Great Writers of Rome which I recently contributed to a series which they have published. I have to thank further my friend Dr. Henry Guppy for kindly allowing me, in the lectures on Cicero and Horace, to avail myself of matter which has al ready appeared in the John Rytands Library Bulletin, though in both cases with considerable modifications. The lecture on Vergil appeared in a somewhat different form in the Proceed ings of the Classical Association in 1928, and was published separately as a pamphlet by the University Press of Man chester, which has generously allowed me to make free use of it here. For the index I am indebted to the skilled and ex perienced hand of my wife, Mrs. Margaret Conway, M. x. and the promptness with which the lectures were prepared for the press is due to the speed and care of my secretary, Miss Rhoda C. Kitts. And to the very able reader of the Harvard University Press I render again my hearty thanks. I hope I may also be allowed to record my gratitude to Dr. Mervin Filler, President of Dickinson College, for the great kindness which he showed me in all the details bearing on the delivery of the lectures and my pleasure that one of them could be honoured by the presence of the revered teacher and scholar whose name they bear. R. S. C. ST. ALBANS, ENGLAND February, 1931 CONTENTS I. CAESAR THE DESTROYER 3 II. THE ORIGINALITY OF CICERO 20 III. HORACE S FARM AND ITS POLITICAL FRUIT 46 IV. POETRY AND GOVERNMENT A STUDY OF THE POWER OF VERGIL 66 INDEX 85 MAKERS OF EUROPE« less