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" ... it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like this do not keep company together,"... "
Mentoria: or, The young ladies instructor, in familiar conversations - Page 164
by Ann Murry - 1807
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Mentoria, Or, The Young Ladies Instructor: In Familiar Conversations, on ...

Ann Murry - Women - 1835 - 264 pages
...rejected. Lord George. Lycurgus must have been a ver^ clever man to make such excellent laws. Mentoria. To prevent magnificence in their houses he ordained...have appeared unsuitable to the rest of the dwelling. The Spartan children were considered as a public concern, from whom legislators and heroes were to...
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Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's, Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1859 - 464 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained, that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men: Translated from the Greek by ..., Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1880 - 626 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch: Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch

Plutarch - 1883 - 570 pages
...leveled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology

Franklin Henry Giddings - Historical sociology - 1906 - 592 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. . . . »»»*»»» In order to the good education of their youth (which, as I said...
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The Library of Original Sources: The Greek world

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...levelled against Ixury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that "Treason and a dinner like this...
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Plutarch's Lives: The "Dryden Plutarch", Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1921 - 582 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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Plutarch's Lives: The "Dryden Plutarch", Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1914 - 592 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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Evolution of Law: Sources of ancient and primitive law

Comparative law - 1915 - 730 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that "Treason and a dinner like this...
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Sources of Ancient and Primitive Law

Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore - Comparative law - 1915 - 734 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like...
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