Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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... Thucydides and Pericles , would unite , and inveft the whole power in him with whom the prodigy was found ; but Anaxagoras , having diffected the head , fhewed that the brain did not fill the whole cavity , but had contracted itself ...
... Thucydides and Pericles , would unite , and inveft the whole power in him with whom the prodigy was found ; but Anaxagoras , having diffected the head , fhewed that the brain did not fill the whole cavity , but had contracted itself ...
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... Thucydides , the fon of .. Milefius , is faid to have given a pleafant account of the force of his eloquence . Thucydides was a great and refpectable man , who for a long time opposed .. 1 ཿ ༞ ༞ ༣ * ( the The former English translator ...
... Thucydides , the fon of .. Milefius , is faid to have given a pleafant account of the force of his eloquence . Thucydides was a great and refpectable man , who for a long time opposed .. 1 ཿ ༞ ༞ ༣ * ( the The former English translator ...
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... Thucydides represents the administration of Pe- ricles as favouring aristocracy , and tells us that , though the government was called democratical , it was really in the hands of one man who had en- groffed Quintilian fays , he prayed ...
... Thucydides represents the administration of Pe- ricles as favouring aristocracy , and tells us that , though the government was called democratical , it was really in the hands of one man who had en- groffed Quintilian fays , he prayed ...
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... Thucydides , of the ward of Alopece , a man of great prudence , and brother - in - law to Cimon . He had not , indeed , Cimon's talents for war , but was fuperior to him in forenfic and political abilities ; and , by refiding conftantly ...
... Thucydides , of the ward of Alopece , a man of great prudence , and brother - in - law to Cimon . He had not , indeed , Cimon's talents for war , but was fuperior to him in forenfic and political abilities ; and , by refiding conftantly ...
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... Thucydides's party raised a cla- mour against Pericles , afferting , that he wafted the public treafure and brought the revenue to nothing . Pericles in his defence afked the people in full af fembly , " Whether they thought he had ...
... Thucydides's party raised a cla- mour against Pericles , afferting , that he wafted the public treafure and brought the revenue to nothing . Pericles in his defence afked the people in full af fembly , " Whether they thought he had ...
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