| Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1770 - 458 pages
...inequality, the city overcharged with nmny indigent persons, who had no land, and the wealth center'd in the hands of a few. Determined, therefore, to root...envy, avarice and luxury, and thofe diftempers of a ttate ftill more inveterate and fatal, I mean poverty and riches, he perfuaded them to cancel all former... | |
| Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1794 - 410 pages
...bolder political enterprife of Lycurgus, was a new divifion of the lands. For he found a protligious inequality, the city overcharged with many indigent...and fatal, I mean poverty and riches, he perfuaded tl,em to cancel all former divifions of land, and to make new ones, in fuch a manner that they might... | |
| Plutarch - 1795 - 420 pages
...perpetual troubles, they made it very evident, that it was really a felicity more than human, a bleffing from heaven to the Spartans, to have a legiflator...make new ones, in fuch a manner that they might be perfeftly equal in their poffeffions and way of living. — Hence, if they were ambitious of diftinftion... | |
| Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1801 - 456 pages
...had taken place in thofe cities. Indeed, thofe H 3 ftates A fecond and bolder political enterprize of Lycurgus, was a new divifion of the lands. For...and riches, he perfuaded them to cancel all former divilions of land, and to make new ones, in fuch a manner that they might be perfectly equal in their... | |
| Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 406 pages
...of the lands. For he found a prodigious inequality, the city overcharged with many indigent persons, who had no land, and the wealth centered in the hands...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,... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1804 - 404 pages
...an event of a later date. A fecond and bolder political enterprife of Lycurgus, was a new divifionof the lands. For he found a prodigious inequality, the...evils of infolence, envy, avarice and luxury, and thole diftempeis of a ftate dill more inveterate and fatal, I mean poverty ami riches, he persuaded... | |
| Plutarchus - 1809 - 584 pages
...prodigious inequality, the city overcharged with many indigent persons who had none, and the great property centered in the hands of a few. Determined therefore to root out the evils of insolence, envy, avarice, and luxury, and those still more inveterate and fatal distempers of a state,... | |
| Plutarchus - 1812 - 690 pages
...of the lands; for he found a prodigious inequality; the" city overcharged with many indigent persons who had no land, and the wealth centered in the hands...few. Determined, therefore, to root out the evils of insolence, envy'j avarice, and luxury, and those distempers of a state still more inveterate and fatal,... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 358 pages
...inequality, the city overcharged with many indigent persons, who had no land, and the wealth centred 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,... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 388 pages
...prodigious inequality, the city overcharged with many indigent persons who had none, and the great property centered in the hands of a few. Determined therefore to root out the evils of insolence, envy, avarice, and luxury, and those still more inveterate and fatal distempers of a state,... | |
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