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Darius the Great

by Abbott Jacob

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Jacob Abbott was an American writer who wrote for children. He wrote a great amount of amazing juvenile fiction books, brief stories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. His Rollo series, among which there are ‘Rollo at Work’ and ‘Rollo at Play’, are the best known of his works. The main character of these stories is a representative boy and his associates. His other works include: ‘Rollo on the Atlantic’ (1853), ‘Rollo in Paris’ (1854), Rollo on the Rhine (1855), ‘Georgie’ (1855), ‘Rollo in Holland’ (1856), ‘Rollo in Rome’ (1858), ‘Rollo in Switzerland’ (1858), ‘Rollo in the Woods’ and ‘Peter the Great’.

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...for the welfare and happiness of others, andbecame supremely devoted to the preservation of his own greatness andpower by any means, however tyrannical, and to the accomplishment ofthe purposes of his own despotic will. The best and most valuablecitizens were as likely to become the victims of his oppression as theworst. In fact, tyrants generally chose their favorites, he said, fromamong the most abandoned men and women in their realms, suchcharacters being the readiest instruments of their guilty pleasuresand their crimes. Otanes referred very particularly to the case ofCambyses as an example of the extreme lengths to which the despoticinsolence and cruelty of a tyrant could go. He reminded his colleaguesof the sufferings and terrors which they had endured while under hissway, and urged them very strongly not to expose themselves to suchterrible evils and dangers again. He proposed, therefore, that theyshould establish a republic, under which the officers of governmentshould be...