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... told of him , or to fuppofe that the cultivated mind of a philofopher should purfue its happiness out of the tem- perate order of nature . His irreligious opinions he left to him , as he had left to the other fects their vanities and ...
... told of him , or to fuppofe that the cultivated mind of a philofopher should purfue its happiness out of the tem- perate order of nature . His irreligious opinions he left to him , as he had left to the other fects their vanities and ...
Page 47
... told the fecret to the princess only , and left orders , that if fhe brought forth a fon , who , when he came to a man's estate , should be able to remove the stone , and take away the things left under it , fhe fhould fend him with ...
... told the fecret to the princess only , and left orders , that if fhe brought forth a fon , who , when he came to a man's estate , should be able to remove the stone , and take away the things left under it , fhe fhould fend him with ...
Page 49
... told him the truth concerning his origin , or- dered him to take up his father's tokens , and fail to Ath- ens . He easily removed the stone , but refused to go by fea , though he might have done it with great safety , and though he was ...
... told him the truth concerning his origin , or- dered him to take up his father's tokens , and fail to Ath- ens . He easily removed the stone , but refused to go by fea , though he might have done it with great safety , and though he was ...
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... told their children ftories to comfort them and keep up their fpirits . Thefe particulars are taken from the Hiftory of Demon . There was a place confecrated , and temple erected to Thefeus ; and those families which would have been ...
... told their children ftories to comfort them and keep up their fpirits . Thefe particulars are taken from the Hiftory of Demon . There was a place confecrated , and temple erected to Thefeus ; and those families which would have been ...
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... told , the delivered long after , concerning Athens : The bladder may be dipp'd , but never drown'd . Defiring yet farther to enlarge the city , he invited all strangers to equal privileges in it ; and the words ftill in ufe , Come ...
... told , the delivered long after , concerning Athens : The bladder may be dipp'd , but never drown'd . Defiring yet farther to enlarge the city , he invited all strangers to equal privileges in it ; and the words ftill in ufe , Come ...
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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.