REMAKABLE DESTINY OF EMINENT WAR


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or aathesmighty conquerors that have
,bcen praised by poets, admired by their
followers, and adorcd for moment by their
couDtrvfnen--that have made babes father
esssw ives widows, and carried devastation
Hi their train--how few have fallen in bat
IA and vet how few have come to time
" e,d Perhaps not one in ten has died
d natural death. Fhey made themselves
constScueus for time, they marked lineage
in Mitch they lived. but they seemed to
rise above the stream of tiRe rather as bea-
cons Ia aeter, than as guides e. sRe followed.
Poison assassination, or disappointed ambiss
ton. commonly put an end to their dazzlit,g
career. Witness the fate OF those who, M
ancient times, were surnamed the Great
and deemed the first warriors OF their age
CYRUS the Great, after conquerng Media
lydia, and Assyria, had his head cut OFT ny
woman, who threw it into vessel tilled


with blood, and addressed it in these words,
.sgo quench there that thirst tor blood Which


seemed Unsuitable" Miltiadcs who COM


manded the Athenians at Marathon, and


was rcckoned the most celebrated General
Of his age, was accused of treason by the


Athenians. and condemned to death. The


sentence was commutcd for fine which he


was unable to pay, and he died in prison


Pausanias. who conquered at Plateca, and


slew about 500, 900 Persians, was starved


20 death in the temple of Minerva, whittier
he had fed to save himself from the fury ol


his countrymen. Themistocles, who wa:


called the most warlike and courageous Of
all the Greeks who destroyed the form liable
(leet of Xerxes at Salamis, and slew and
drowned countless thousands of Persians


was banishcd by the capricious Athenians


delivered himself like Napoleon, into the
hands of his former enemies, and died cby
poison according to some) in exile. Epam
inondas the Thebal, by his extraordinar,
talents raised himself to the first rank in ths