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... same time " that he fuffered this punishment because he could not I eat his victuals without fauce . The philofopher all " the while had his eye upon us , and we knew well for " whom this example of punishment was intended . " This ...
... same time " that he fuffered this punishment because he could not I eat his victuals without fauce . The philofopher all " the while had his eye upon us , and we knew well for " whom this example of punishment was intended . " This ...
Page 75
... same family , till the death of Eryxias , or , according to others of Tlefias , the feventh and laft decennial archon . For the family of Codrus , or of the Medontidæ ending in him , the Atheni- ans created annual archons , and inftead ...
... same family , till the death of Eryxias , or , according to others of Tlefias , the feventh and laft decennial archon . For the family of Codrus , or of the Medontidæ ending in him , the Atheni- ans created annual archons , and inftead ...
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... same day , they had kept a pastoral feaft called Palilia . * At prefent , indeed , there is very little analogy between the Roman and the Grecian months ; yet the day on which Romulus founded the city is ftrongly affirmed to be the ...
... same day , they had kept a pastoral feaft called Palilia . * At prefent , indeed , there is very little analogy between the Roman and the Grecian months ; yet the day on which Romulus founded the city is ftrongly affirmed to be the ...
Page 194
... same footing , and , as it were , of one family . Both appear to have been equally ftudious to lead their people to temperance and sobriety . As to the other vir- tues , the one was more attached to fortitude , and the other to juftice ...
... same footing , and , as it were , of one family . Both appear to have been equally ftudious to lead their people to temperance and sobriety . As to the other vir- tues , the one was more attached to fortitude , and the other to juftice ...
Page 225
... same per- * This law , and several others of Solon's were taken into the twelve tables . In the confulate of T. Romilius and C. Veturius , in the year of Rome 293 , the Romans fent deputies to Athens , to tranfcribe his laws , and thofe ...
... same per- * This law , and several others of Solon's were taken into the twelve tables . In the confulate of T. Romilius and C. Veturius , in the year of Rome 293 , the Romans fent deputies to Athens , to tranfcribe his laws , and thofe ...
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Page 128 - ... in the hands of a few. Determined therefore to root out the evils of insolence, envy, avarice, and luxury, and those distempers of a state still more inveterate and fatal, I mean poverty and riches...
Page 151 - For along with foreigners come new subjects of discourse * ; new discourse produces new opinions ; and from these there necessarily spring new passions 'and desires, which, like discords in music, would disturb the established government. He, therefore, thought it more expedient for the city, to keep out of it corrupt customs and manners, than even to prevent the introduction of a pestilence.
Page 169 - During the first hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding.
Page 383 - The sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and having covered his eyes with it, asked him;
Page 139 - ... of obedience. The old men were present at their diversions, and often suggested some occasion of dispute or quarrel, that they might observe with exactness the spirit of each, and their firmness in battle.
Page 284 - This child is greater than any man in Greece ; for the Athenians command the Greeks, I .command the Athenians, his mother commands me, and he commands his mother.