Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volumes 3-41810 |
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Page 65
... Thebans ; takes the cities of Orchomenus and Lebadia ; and is slain before the walls of Haliartus . His funeral . Oracles announcing his death . Regret of the Laceda- monians . Detection of the plot , which he had concerted to get ...
... Thebans ; takes the cities of Orchomenus and Lebadia ; and is slain before the walls of Haliartus . His funeral . Oracles announcing his death . Regret of the Laceda- monians . Detection of the plot , which he had concerted to get ...
Page 95
... The- bans , and some upon both . Those who charge the Thebans with it , assert that they overturned the altar , and ... Thebans for having claimed the tenth of the treasure taken at Decelea , as well as for having refused to attend them ...
... The- bans , and some upon both . Those who charge the Thebans with it , assert that they overturned the altar , and ... Thebans for having claimed the tenth of the treasure taken at Decelea , as well as for having refused to attend them ...
Page 96
... Thebans alone of all the confederates should claim the tenth of the Athenian spoils taken at Decelea , and complain of his sending the money to Sparta . But what he most re- sented was , their having put the Athenians in a way of ...
... Thebans alone of all the confederates should claim the tenth of the Athenian spoils taken at Decelea , and complain of his sending the money to Sparta . But what he most re- sented was , their having put the Athenians in a way of ...
Page 97
... Thebans not only supplied them with arms and money , but gave them a kind reception and every encouragement . These were the grounds of Lysander's resentment against them . He was naturally prone to anger , and the melancholy which grew ...
... Thebans not only supplied them with arms and money , but gave them a kind reception and every encouragement . These were the grounds of Lysander's resentment against them . He was naturally prone to anger , and the melancholy which grew ...
Page 98
... Thebans improved their advantage , and pressed upon them with so much ardour , that they were soon put to the rout , and fled to the hills . Their loss amounted to a thousand , and that of the Thebans to three hundred . The latter lost ...
... Thebans improved their advantage , and pressed upon them with so much ardour , that they were soon put to the rout , and fled to the hills . Their loss amounted to a thousand , and that of the Thebans to three hundred . The latter lost ...
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Page 337 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait : Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost : He comes : nor want nor cold his course delay.
Page 336 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 353 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 23 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 126 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Page 45 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
Page 119 - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul. All other weapons lay idle and unemployed ; his were the only offensive and defensive arms of the city.
Page 337 - On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, 'And all be mine beneath the polar sky.' The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, not want and cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Page 119 - ... of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanics, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual speculations, which, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from...
Page 197 - A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.