Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Æra, Volumen 6J. Mawman, 1817 |
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... hearts of his disciples that rare and sublime friendship which has passed into a proverb . * The children of this great family , dispersed through various climates , without having ever seen each other before , made themselves known by ...
... hearts of his disciples that rare and sublime friendship which has passed into a proverb . * The children of this great family , dispersed through various climates , without having ever seen each other before , made themselves known by ...
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... heart that he might desire , and a soul that he might feel , his happiness . t This charming season brought with it festivals still more charming : I mean those which are cele- brated every four years at Delos , in honour of Diana ...
... heart that he might desire , and a soul that he might feel , his happiness . t This charming season brought with it festivals still more charming : I mean those which are cele- brated every four years at Delos , in honour of Diana ...
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... hearts , expanded to the purest joy , tasted all the charms of confidence and liberty . In the mean time Philocles put a lyre in the hands of Ismene , and requested her to sing one of those hymns which celebrate the birth of Apollo and ...
... hearts , expanded to the purest joy , tasted all the charms of confidence and liberty . In the mean time Philocles put a lyre in the hands of Ismene , and requested her to sing one of those hymns which celebrate the birth of Apollo and ...
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... hearts those sentiments of compas- sion which nature designed to unite them to each other , and which alone can unite the wretched . As the characters of men have a great influence on their opinions , it might be expected that the phi ...
... hearts those sentiments of compas- sion which nature designed to unite them to each other , and which alone can unite the wretched . As the characters of men have a great influence on their opinions , it might be expected that the phi ...
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... heart , and to deaden the remorse of guilt , might be con- sidered only as an error of the mind , if Simonides , while he inculcated such lenity to others , had been but the more rigorous in the regulation of his own conduct . But he ...
... heart , and to deaden the remorse of guilt , might be con- sidered only as an error of the mind , if Simonides , while he inculcated such lenity to others , had been but the more rigorous in the regulation of his own conduct . But he ...
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Ægean sea Alex Anacharsis ancient Apollo Arcadia architect Argos Aristoph Aristot Astronomer Athenians Athens Attica Birth Boeotia Callim celebrated CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST Chios Cicer Clem colonies Comic Poet Corinth Cudw Cyclic Poet death Delos Demophon Demosth Demosthenes Diod Diog disciple Divine drachma Euclid feet festival gods Græc grains Greece Greek city Greek town happiness Herodot Hist historian Homer honour Iambl ibid inhabitants Ionia island isle Ismene king Lacedæmonians Laërt latter Legislator livres Lysis mathematician Miletus Month morality mountain Olymp orator painter Paros Persia Philip Philocles Phocion Phocis physician Plat Plato pleasure Plin Plut Poet and Musician poetess Porphyr Pythag Pythagoras Pythagorean reduced to French rhetorician river sacrifice Samian Schol serm Sicily Sicyon Simonides Socrates soul stadia statuary Stob Strab Suid Syracuse temple tetradrachms Thargelion Theagenes Thebans Thebes Thessaly Thrace tion Toises Tournef Tragic Poet village and ruins virtue Μηνος
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Página 395 - All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Página 203 - Thus was the city one scene of tumult. The next morning, by dawn of day, the presidents summoned the senate. The people were instantly collected, and before any regular authority could convene their assembly, the whole...
Página 24 - When at the point of death, unable to recompense the care and kindness with which he had been treated, he traced some symbolical marks, with a trembling hand, on a tablet, which he directed to be exposed to view on the public road. A long time after, chance brought to these remote places, a disciple of Pythagoras, who, informed by the enigmatical characters he saw before him, of the misfortunes of the first traveller, stopped — paid the innkeeper the expenses he had been at, with interest, and...
Página 112 - If we should be told," says the Abbe Barthelemi, " that two strangers, cast by chance on a desert island, had found in the society of each other a pleasure which indemnified them for being secluded from the rest of the world ; if we should be told...
Página 158 - ... and sanctity, to refer to him all our actions, to fulfil punctually the duties of our condition, and to consider as the first of them all, that of being useful to mankind; for the more good we do, the more we merit to be ranked among the number of his children and friends.
Página 92 - ... to prevent fuch as were of evil portent. One faid : I faw this morning two turtles long hover in the air, and at length reft together on a branch of that tree. Another faid : Drive away the folitary crow, and let her go far hence to mourn the lofs of her faithful companion ; for flie brings the moft ill-boding of auguries.
Página 157 - ... and I should fear lest the deity, offended at the indiscretion of my petitions, should grant my request. Philocles. What then do you ask of him ? Lysis. To protect me against my passions; to grant me true beauty, which is that of the soul, and the knowledge and virtue of which I have need; to bestow on me the power to refrain from committing any injustice; and especially, the courage to endure the injustice of others.
Página 135 - ... popular assemblies and courts of law; so that, one way or another, by persuasion or violence, we shall get the better of our neighbours without being punished. You might object that the gods are not to be deceived and are beyond the reach of violence. But suppose that there are no gods, or that they do not concern themselves with the doings of men; why should we concern ourselves to deceive them? Or, if the gods do exist and care for mankind, all we know or have ever heard about them comes from...
Página 92 - The bride and bridegroom were received at the gate of the temple by a prieft, who prefented to each of them a branch of ivy, the fymbol of the bonds by which they were to be for ever united.
Página 93 - The bride and bridegroom then fwore to each other an inviolable fidelity ; and their parents, after having received their oaths, ratified them by new facrifices ?. Night began to come on when we came out of the temple to return to the houfe of Theagenes.