The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Gelesen von Nick Hillier
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
(5 Sterne; 1 Bewertungen)
16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of the 17th Century in which Juvenal complains about and ridicules aspects of life in the Rome of his day her habits mores and celebrities - Summary by N L Hillier (5 hr 49 min)
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Mike Buuganus-Wiesel
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"Once the power of monetary emission is yielded by a ruler or state to private or external interests, it is rare that it can be recovered except as the result of all consuming cataclysm. Immense monopolies and vastly unequal money fortunes are neither gained nor saved by lawful labour or trade. Of necessity they are the natural outcome of the exercise of the power to discriminate, the power to reject or prefer that follows as inevitable consequence, when, in any state, private persons are permitted to create and issue the unit of exchange, whether tangible or abstract; and by whatever device of law such as may be needed to create appearance of legality. So far as the future of mankind is concerned, out of the deceit it practises on the simple, kind, and trusting, this instrument will be responsible for the complete enslavement and ultimate destruction of most, if not all, of this world. " -David Astle, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘦