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Excerpt from The Court of Pilate: A Story of Jerusalem in the Days of Christ
But the soldiery, - those hardy, untamed, and in most cases vindictive, warriors, brought from the great seat of the Empire - Rome - cared little for the furtive beating of the wings of the captive na tion - little, if any, for the rights of those they had been sent to govern, and because of this disregard and contempt, many outrages were perpetrated with out punishment therefor. Yet, in spite of all their self-assurance, the rulers, - those who were in position to know the trend of the public mind and the strength of an outraged pub lic Opinion, trembled at times because of the tempest of condemnation and the undercurrent of muttered threats - trembled because of being on an eminence that provoked a personal revenge, and because a crime will make a coward of the bravest man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
