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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Page 120
... observed by Archestratus , " that Greece could not bear another " Alcibiades . " When Timon , famed for his mi- fanthropy , faw Alcibiades , after having gained his point , conducted home with great honour from the place of affembly ...
... observed by Archestratus , " that Greece could not bear another " Alcibiades . " When Timon , famed for his mi- fanthropy , faw Alcibiades , after having gained his point , conducted home with great honour from the place of affembly ...
Page 206
... observed the fame conduct which Ariftides is fo highly extolled for with refpect to The- miftocles . He went in perfon to thofe generals , who , he knew , were not his friends , and fhewed them what steps it was proper for them to take ...
... observed the fame conduct which Ariftides is fo highly extolled for with refpect to The- miftocles . He went in perfon to thofe generals , who , he knew , were not his friends , and fhewed them what steps it was proper for them to take ...
Page 254
... observe the honour and refpect which the Syracufans paid him when blind . They not on- ly vifited him conftantly themselves , but brought all strangers who spent fome time amongst them , to his house in the town , or to that in the ...
... observe the honour and refpect which the Syracufans paid him when blind . They not on- ly vifited him conftantly themselves , but brought all strangers who spent fome time amongst them , to his house in the town , or to that in the ...
Page 283
... observed feveral interstices and openings in the Macedonian line ; as it happens in great armies , according to the different efforts of the combatants , who in one part prefs forward , and in another are forced to give back . For this ...
... observed feveral interstices and openings in the Macedonian line ; as it happens in great armies , according to the different efforts of the combatants , who in one part prefs forward , and in another are forced to give back . For this ...
Page 313
... observation , that there was great difference between a due regard to valour , and a contempt of life . To this purpose , there is a ftory of one of the foldiers of Antigonus , who was aftonishingly brave , but of an unhealthy ...
... observation , that there was great difference between a due regard to valour , and a contempt of life . To this purpose , there is a ftory of one of the foldiers of Antigonus , who was aftonishingly brave , but of an unhealthy ...
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