Citations:empire


 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans — of their subsequent degenerating — of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

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 * 1870, Henry Clarke Wright, The Empire of the Mother Over the Character and Destiny of the Race, page 70:
 * Some of those journals were putinto my hands to be read, and that I might take from them such extracts as I could make useful in discussing, publicly, the pre-natal rights of children, the responsibility of mothers, and their empire over the character and destiny of the race.