The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. By Charles Rollin, Volume 4

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T. Clark, [et. al.], 1806 - History, Ancient

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Page 77 - II; does not swear to discharge with impunity whom he pleases, but to do justice where it is due. We ought not, therefore, to accustom you to perjury, nor you to suffer yourselves to be accustomed to it; for, in so doing, both the one and the other of us equally injure justice and religion, and both are criminals.
Page 55 - There was no kind of abuse or injurious treatment •which he had not to experience from her. She would sometimes be transported with such an excess of rage, as to tear off his cloak in the open street ; and even one day, after having vented all the reproaches her fury could suggest, she emptied a pot upon his head ; at which he only laughed and said, " That so much thunder must needs produce a shower...
Page 108 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Page 256 - Epaminondas, who resolved to charge with his left which he commanded in person, strengthened it with the choice of his heavy-armed troops, whom he drew up fifty deep. The sacred battalion was upon his left, and closed the wing. The rest of his infantry were posted upon his right in an oblique line, which, the farther it extended, was the more distant from the enemy. By this uncommon disposition, his design was to cover his...
Page 52 - ... from heaven, to place it in cities, and introduce it into private houses ; humanizing it, to use that expression, and rendering it more familiar, more useful in common life, more within the reach of man's capacity, and applying it solely to what might make them more rational, just, and virtuous. He...
Page 77 - ... teach you not to believe in the gods; and even in defending and justifying myself, should furnish my adversaries with arms against me, and prove that I believe no divinity. But I am very far from such bad thoughts. I am more convinced of the existence of God than my accusers ; and so convinced, that I abandon myself to God and you, that you may judge of me as you shall deem best for yourselves and me.
Page 74 - I incessantly urge to you, that virtue does not proceed from riches, but on the contrary, riches from virtue; and that all the other goods of human life, as well public as private, have their source in the same principle.
Page 76 - You should know, that there are amongst our citizens those who do not regard death as an evil, and who give that name only to injustice and infamy. At my age, and with the reputation, true or false, which I have, would it be consistent for me, after all the lessons I have given upon the contempt of death, to be afraid of it myself, and to belie in my last action all the principles and sentiments of my past life?
Page 74 - I am accused of corrupting the youth, and of instilling dangerous maxims into them, as well in regard to the worship of the gods as the rules of government. You know, Athenians, that...
Page 75 - I honour and love you, but I shall choose rather to obey God than you ; and, to my latest breath, shall never renounce my philosophy, nor cease to exhort and reprove you according to my custom, by telling each of you, when you come in my way, my good friend, and citizen of the most famous city in the world for wisdom and valour, are you not ashamed to have no...

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