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... themselves no great concern about the difficulties that attended it . Some few blundered at the Greek ; fome drew from the Scholiaft's Latin ; and others more humble , trode fcrupuloufly in the paces of Ami- ot . Thus copying the idioms ...
... themselves no great concern about the difficulties that attended it . Some few blundered at the Greek ; fome drew from the Scholiaft's Latin ; and others more humble , trode fcrupuloufly in the paces of Ami- ot . Thus copying the idioms ...
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... themselves fo much diftinguished , aftronomy and the fyftem of the univerfe . The laws of moral life , and the inftitutions of civil focieties , with their several excellencies and defects , he learnt from the various states and estab ...
... themselves fo much diftinguished , aftronomy and the fyftem of the univerfe . The laws of moral life , and the inftitutions of civil focieties , with their several excellencies and defects , he learnt from the various states and estab ...
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... themselves by treaty , to fend every ninth year a tribute of seven young men , and as many virgins . When these were brought into Crete , the fabulous account informs us , that they were deftroyed by the Minotaur * in the Labyrinth , or ...
... themselves by treaty , to fend every ninth year a tribute of seven young men , and as many virgins . When these were brought into Crete , the fabulous account informs us , that they were deftroyed by the Minotaur * in the Labyrinth , or ...
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... themselves to navigation ; and that Sciras did this because because one of the young men named Menesthes , was his daughter's fon . This is confirmed by the monuments of Naulitheus and Phæax , built by Thefeus , at Phalerum , near the ...
... themselves to navigation ; and that Sciras did this because because one of the young men named Menesthes , was his daughter's fon . This is confirmed by the monuments of Naulitheus and Phæax , built by Thefeus , at Phalerum , near the ...
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... themselves fafe afhore , boiling them in one pot , and feafting upon them all to- gether . In that feast they also carry a branch bound about with wool , fuch as they then made ufe of in their fupplications , which they call Eirefione ...
... themselves fafe afhore , boiling them in one pot , and feafting upon them all to- gether . In that feast they also carry a branch bound about with wool , fuch as they then made ufe of in their fupplications , which they call Eirefione ...
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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.