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... whose fouls being refined from the grofs parts of their former existence , are admitted into the higher order of genii , and are from thence either raised to a more exalted mode of etherial being , or degraded to mortal forms ...
... whose fouls being refined from the grofs parts of their former existence , are admitted into the higher order of genii , and are from thence either raised to a more exalted mode of etherial being , or degraded to mortal forms ...
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... whose weapon was a club , and who , on that account , was called Corynetes , or the Clubbearer . He engaged with him , and flew him . Delighted with the club , he took it for his weapon , and used it as Hercules did the lion's skin ...
... whose weapon was a club , and who , on that account , was called Corynetes , or the Clubbearer . He engaged with him , and flew him . Delighted with the club , he took it for his weapon , and used it as Hercules did the lion's skin ...
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... whose heart and house were ever open to the good and the honeft . For acus , fay they , was looked upon as the justest man in Greece , Cychreus of Salamis had divine * In this inftance our hero deviated from the principle he fet out ...
... whose heart and house were ever open to the good and the honeft . For acus , fay they , was looked upon as the justest man in Greece , Cychreus of Salamis had divine * In this inftance our hero deviated from the principle he fet out ...
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... whose ftrength and fwiftnefs appeared more than human . But what fome report is entirely fabulous , and utterly incred- ible , that there fell that day fourteen thousand men , above half of whom Romulus flew with his own hand . For even ...
... whose ftrength and fwiftnefs appeared more than human . But what fome report is entirely fabulous , and utterly incred- ible , that there fell that day fourteen thousand men , above half of whom Romulus flew with his own hand . For even ...
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... whose punishment and death he delivered Greece from feveral cruel tyrants , before they , for whofe preservation he was laboring , knew him . Moreover , he might have And that to facrifice , or rather to offer up prayers at a facrifice ...
... whose punishment and death he delivered Greece from feveral cruel tyrants , before they , for whofe preservation he was laboring , knew him . Moreover , he might have And that to facrifice , or rather to offer up prayers at a facrifice ...
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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.