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... Italy . Upon what occafion he vifited that country , it is not quite fo certain ; but he probably went to Rome , in a public capacity , on the bufinefs of the Charoneans . For , in the life of Demofthenes , he tells us , that he had no ...
... Italy . Upon what occafion he vifited that country , it is not quite fo certain ; but he probably went to Rome , in a public capacity , on the bufinefs of the Charoneans . For , in the life of Demofthenes , he tells us , that he had no ...
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... Italy , I had not leisure to study the Latin tongue , on " account of the public commiflions with which I was ❝charged , and the number of people who came to be in- " ftructed by me in philofophy . It was not , therefore , " till a ...
... Italy , I had not leisure to study the Latin tongue , on " account of the public commiflions with which I was ❝charged , and the number of people who came to be in- " ftructed by me in philofophy . It was not , therefore , " till a ...
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... Italy , where they fettled about Japygia ; and from thence they removed again into Thrace , and were called Botticans . Wherefore the Bottican virgins , in fome folemnities of religion , fing , " To Athens let us go . " And , indeed ...
... Italy , where they fettled about Japygia ; and from thence they removed again into Thrace , and were called Botticans . Wherefore the Bottican virgins , in fome folemnities of religion , fing , " To Athens let us go . " And , indeed ...
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... Italy . Even they who , with the greatest probability , declare that the city had its name from Romulus , do not agree about his extraction ; for fome fay he was fon of Æneas and Dexithea , the daughter of Phorbus , and was brought an ...
... Italy . Even they who , with the greatest probability , declare that the city had its name from Romulus , do not agree about his extraction ; for fome fay he was fon of Æneas and Dexithea , the daughter of Phorbus , and was brought an ...
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... Italy . But the principal parts of that account , which deferves the moft credit , and has the moft vouchers , were first pub- lifhed among the Greeks by Diocles the Peparethian , whom Fabius Pictor commonly follows ; and though there ...
... Italy . But the principal parts of that account , which deferves the moft credit , and has the moft vouchers , were first pub- lifhed among the Greeks by Diocles the Peparethian , whom Fabius Pictor commonly follows ; and though there ...
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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.