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... ALCIBIADES , - ---- CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS , - ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS COMPARED , · TIMOLEON , PAULUS EMILIUS , TIMOLEON AND PAULUS EMILIUS COMPARED , Page . I 31 34 -77 ---- 114 118 154 - 194 PELOPIDAS , 196 MARCELLUS , 230 ...
... ALCIBIADES , - ---- CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS , - ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS COMPARED , · TIMOLEON , PAULUS EMILIUS , TIMOLEON AND PAULUS EMILIUS COMPARED , Page . I 31 34 -77 ---- 114 118 154 - 194 PELOPIDAS , 196 MARCELLUS , 230 ...
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... ALCIBIADES . THOSE that have fearched into the pedigree of Alci- biades , fay , that Euryfaces , the fon of Ajax , was founder of the family ; and that by his mother's fide ... Alcibiades , amongst a 84 PLUTARCH's LIVES . ALCIBIADES, - ----
... ALCIBIADES . THOSE that have fearched into the pedigree of Alci- biades , fay , that Euryfaces , the fon of Ajax , was founder of the family ; and that by his mother's fide ... Alcibiades , amongst a 84 PLUTARCH's LIVES . ALCIBIADES, - ----
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... Alcibiades lifped , for instead of calling him Corax , Raven , he called him Colax , Flatterer ; from whence the poet takes occasion to obferve , that the term in that lifping pronunciation , too , was very applicable to him . With this ...
... Alcibiades lifped , for instead of calling him Corax , Raven , he called him Colax , Flatterer ; from whence the poet takes occasion to obferve , that the term in that lifping pronunciation , too , was very applicable to him . With this ...
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... Alcibiades kept both himfelf and others from learning to play upon the flute ; for it foon became the talk among the young men of condition , that Alcibiades was right in holding that art in abomination , and ridiculing thofe that ...
... Alcibiades kept both himfelf and others from learning to play upon the flute ; for it foon became the talk among the young men of condition , that Alcibiades was right in holding that art in abomination , and ridiculing thofe that ...
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... Alcibiades to give him his company . Alcibiades would not accept of the invitation , but having drank deep with fome of his acquaintance at his own house he went thither to play fome frolic . The frolic was this ; He stood at the door ...
... Alcibiades to give him his company . Alcibiades would not accept of the invitation , but having drank deep with fome of his acquaintance at his own house he went thither to play fome frolic . The frolic was this ; He stood at the door ...
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Page 239 - 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 301 - ... 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 238 - 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.