Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... helots in Lacedæmon , and the subjects of the Carthaginian and Roman Republics , outnumbered the citizens , in the proportion probably of five , and sometimes of ten or twenty to one . Nor again were alien families considered as such in ...
... helots in Lacedæmon , and the subjects of the Carthaginian and Roman Republics , outnumbered the citizens , in the proportion probably of five , and sometimes of ten or twenty to one . Nor again were alien families considered as such in ...
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... helot ; but he was likely to be less galled by his depression , from being surrounded by those who , though some of ... helots , always ready to avail themselves of any public disaster as an occasion for revolt . The frightful expedient ...
... helot ; but he was likely to be less galled by his depression , from being surrounded by those who , though some of ... helots , always ready to avail themselves of any public disaster as an occasion for revolt . The frightful expedient ...
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... Helots . On the ruinous results of keeping a portion of the people in such a state , I have already dwelt in the notes to the Essay on ' Seditions and Troubles . ' A somewhat similar disadvantage in respect of advancement 1 Touch . To ...
... Helots . On the ruinous results of keeping a portion of the people in such a state , I have already dwelt in the notes to the Essay on ' Seditions and Troubles . ' A somewhat similar disadvantage in respect of advancement 1 Touch . To ...
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advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word