The strict family life and discipline of the Romans, the continuity of their religious colleges, the unity of a single state as the common centre of all their interests, the slow and steady growth of their institutions, their strong regard for precedent, were all conditions more favourable to the preservation of tradition than the lively social life, the numerous centres of political organisation, and the rapid growth and vicissitudes of the Greek republics.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
"I only know, from common report, that after the death of his wife, having given his infant child, a girl, in charge to his brother, he engaged in the service of some of the Southern American republics, and is supposed yet to be living there,-some say in great affluence; others, that he is utterly ruined by a failure in a mining speculation.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
These facts are related by Sismondi in his "Italian republics," vol.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr