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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... command with him upon an expedi- tion at fea , happened to praise the beauty of a cer- tain boy , he faid , " A general , my friend , fhould " not only have pure hands but pure eyes . ' Ste- fimbrotus produces this paffage from the ...
... command with him upon an expedi- tion at fea , happened to praise the beauty of a cer- tain boy , he faid , " A general , my friend , fhould " not only have pure hands but pure eyes . ' Ste- fimbrotus produces this paffage from the ...
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... command abroad , and with two hundred gallies lay waste the king of Perfia's dominions , and Pe- ricles have the direction of affairs at home . A story goes , that Elpinice , before this , had foftened the refentment of Pericles against ...
... command abroad , and with two hundred gallies lay waste the king of Perfia's dominions , and Pe- ricles have the direction of affairs at home . A story goes , that Elpinice , before this , had foftened the refentment of Pericles against ...
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... command of a general . Thus by the exercise of these different trades plenty was diffused among perfons of every rank and con- dition . Thus works were raised of an aftonishing magnitude , and inimitable beauty and perfection , every ...
... command of a general . Thus by the exercise of these different trades plenty was diffused among perfons of every rank and con- dition . Thus works were raised of an aftonishing magnitude , and inimitable beauty and perfection , every ...
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... command . From this time he became a different man , he was no longer fe obfequious to the humour of the populace , which is as wild and as changeable as the winds . The multitude were not indulged or courted ; the government in fact ...
... command . From this time he became a different man , he was no longer fe obfequious to the humour of the populace , which is as wild and as changeable as the winds . The multitude were not indulged or courted ; the government in fact ...
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... command of king Plistonax , were upon the borders of Attica . The enemy offered him battle ; he did not chufe , however , to rifque an engagement with fo numerous and refolute an But as Pliftonax was very young , and army . chiefly ...
... command of king Plistonax , were upon the borders of Attica . The enemy offered him battle ; he did not chufe , however , to rifque an engagement with fo numerous and refolute an But as Pliftonax was very young , and army . chiefly ...
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Page 460 - ... from the living fountain. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
Page 379 - Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund 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.
Page 49 - This sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and having covered his eyes with it, asked him, — " If he found any thing terrible in" that, or considered it as a sad presage?" Upon his answering in the negative, he said, — "Where is the difference then between this and the other, except that something bigger than my cloak causes the eclipse?
Page 462 - The outside of Socrates was that of a satyr and buffoon, but his soul was all virtue, and from within him came such divine and pathetic things, as pierced the heart, and drew tears from the hearers...