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... give the date . But he does not speak of either with approbation ; and I have not been able to learn that there is any other . The first object of my book is to make these b lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English.
... give the date . But he does not speak of either with approbation ; and I have not been able to learn that there is any other . The first object of my book is to make these b lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English.
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Theophrastus. lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English readers . But some critical labour has been given to it , and I venture to hope that in certain points of view it may have interest for scholars . A translator of ...
Theophrastus. lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English readers . But some critical labour has been given to it , and I venture to hope that in certain points of view it may have interest for scholars . A translator of ...
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... manners , again , they have this merit , that they treat of commonplace people and of everyday life . But it is not as pictures of men or of manners that they seem most in- teresting . Besides the language which a literature can ...
... manners , again , they have this merit , that they treat of commonplace people and of everyday life . But it is not as pictures of men or of manners that they seem most in- teresting . Besides the language which a literature can ...
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... of Greek history and literature is surely not slight . A series of men , vividly seen , with all the tricks of speech and manner which marked them in Athenian society , passes before us ; and for once we 4 INTRODUCTION .
... of Greek history and literature is surely not slight . A series of men , vividly seen , with all the tricks of speech and manner which marked them in Athenian society , passes before us ; and for once we 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... manners turned from living men to portraits of the dead . It is only necessary to read the ' Letters ' in which Alciphro , a rhetorician of the Empire , attempted to revive the Athens of Menander , in order to feel the difference ...
... manners turned from living men to portraits of the dead . It is only necessary to read the ' Letters ' in which Alciphro , a rhetorician of the Empire , attempted to revive the Athens of Menander , in order to feel the difference ...
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