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... occasion for , juft as they are towards venomous creatures which they have need of for their poifon and their gall . While they are of ufe they love them , but abhor them when their purpose is effected . Such were the fentiments of ...
... occasion for , juft as they are towards venomous creatures which they have need of for their poifon and their gall . While they are of ufe they love them , but abhor them when their purpose is effected . Such were the fentiments of ...
Page 113
... occasion , against nature , to fend the bodies of good men to heaven ; but we are to conclude , that virtu- ous fouls , by nature and the divine justice , rise from men to heroes , from heroes to genii ; and at laft , if , as in the ...
... occasion , against nature , to fend the bodies of good men to heaven ; but we are to conclude , that virtu- ous fouls , by nature and the divine justice , rise from men to heroes , from heroes to genii ; and at laft , if , as in the ...
Page 114
... occasion . When the Ro- mans heard this , though they were afraid of war , yet they looked upon the giving up of their women as not at all more eligible than captivity . While they were in this suf- penfe , a fervant maid , named ...
... occasion . When the Ro- mans heard this , though they were afraid of war , yet they looked upon the giving up of their women as not at all more eligible than captivity . While they were in this suf- penfe , a fervant maid , named ...
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... occasion to revolt , from the unhappy fate of Lucretia , who killed herself on account of the rape committed upon her by the fon of Tarquin . Lucius Brutus , meditating a change of government , applied to Valerius firft , and with his ...
... occasion to revolt , from the unhappy fate of Lucretia , who killed herself on account of the rape committed upon her by the fon of Tarquin . Lucius Brutus , meditating a change of government , applied to Valerius firft , and with his ...
Page 237
... occasion Valerius went with great alacri- ty into the forum , and was the first to make oath that he would never give up the leaft point , or hearken to any terms of agreement with Tarquin , but would defend the Roman liberty with his ...
... occasion Valerius went with great alacri- ty into the forum , and was the first to make oath that he would never give up the leaft point , or hearken to any terms of agreement with Tarquin , but would defend the Roman liberty with his ...
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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.