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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... fhould not be fuffered to remain an eye - fore to " the Piraeus : " and that " he faw war approaching " from Peloponnefus . " And when Sophocles , who went in joint command with him upon an expedi- tion at fea , happened to praise the ...
... fhould not be fuffered to remain an eye - fore to " the Piraeus : " and that " he faw war approaching " from Peloponnefus . " And when Sophocles , who went in joint command with him upon an expedi- tion at fea , happened to praise the ...
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... fhould trace the effect to its caufe , by a retrofpect into the circumftances of the re- public . is At first , as we have obferved , to raise himself to fome fort of equality with Cimon , who was then at the height of glory , Pericles ...
... fhould trace the effect to its caufe , by a retrofpect into the circumftances of the re- public . is At first , as we have obferved , to raise himself to fome fort of equality with Cimon , who was then at the height of glory , Pericles ...
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... fhould be laid out " on fuch works as , when executed , would be " eternal monuments of its glory , and which , << during their execution , would diffufe an univer- " fal plenty , for as fo many kinds of labour , and fuch a variety of ...
... fhould be laid out " on fuch works as , when executed , would be " eternal monuments of its glory , and which , << during their execution , would diffufe an univer- " fal plenty , for as fo many kinds of labour , and fuch a variety of ...
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... the ftructures raised by Pericles fhould be built in fo fhort a time , and yet built for ages : for as each of them , as foon as finifhed , had the C 2 of PERICLE S. 19 port them in idleness. By the constructing of ...
... the ftructures raised by Pericles fhould be built in fo fhort a time , and yet built for ages : for as each of them , as foon as finifhed , had the C 2 of PERICLE S. 19 port them in idleness. By the constructing of ...
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... fhould lofe fo valuable a counsellor . Anaxagoras , uncovering his face , re- plied , " Ah Pericles ! thofe that have need of a lamp , take care to fupply it with oil . " 66 By this time , the Lacedaemonians began to ex- prefs fome ...
... fhould lofe fo valuable a counsellor . Anaxagoras , uncovering his face , re- plied , " Ah Pericles ! thofe that have need of a lamp , take care to fupply it with oil . " 66 By this time , the Lacedaemonians began to ex- prefs fome ...
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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...