Plutarch's Lives, Volume 11General Books LLC, 2009 - 354 pages Volume: 11 Publisher: London: W. Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co. Publication date: 1914 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Page 94 - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded...
Page 111 - ... 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, he persuaded them to cancel all former divisions of land, and to make new ones, in such a manner that they might be perfectly equal in their possessions and way of living. Hence, if they were ambitious of...
Page 116 - As for smaller matters, contracts about property, and whatever occasionally varied, it was better not to reduce these to a written form and unalterable method, but to suffer them to change with the times, and to admit of additions or retrenchments at the pleasure of persons so well educated. For he resolved the whole business of legislation into the bringing up of youth.
Page 18 - As to myself, I live in a little town ; and I choose to live there, lest it should become still less.
Page 129 - Upon the whole, he taught his citizens to think nothing more disagreeable than to live by (or for) themselves. Like bees, they acted with one impulse for the public good, and always assembled about their prince. They were possessed with a thirst of honor, an enthusiasm bordering upon insanity, and had not a wish but for their country.
Page 116 - These would remain immovable, as founded in inclination, and be the strongest and most lasting tie ; and the habits which education produced in the youth, would answer in each the purpose of a lawgiver. As for smaller matters...
Page 124 - And to the question, whether they should inclose Sparta with walls, " That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.
Page 148 - Being : during the 170 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 305 - Parmenides, pretended to be so invincible, one of them was to prove there can be no such thing as motion, since a thing can neither move in the place where it is, nor in the place where it is not. But this...
Page 120 - ... if it was weakly ,and deformed, they ordered it to be thrown into the place called Apothetce, which is a deep cavern near the mountain Taygetus : concluding that its life could be no advantage either to itself or to the public, since nature had not given it at first any strength or goodness of constitution*.