Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, المجلد 11809 |
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الصفحة viii
... the same form upward of thirty years . But in the year 1758 the proprietor engaged a gentleman of abilities , very different from those who had formerly been em- ployed , to give it a second purgation . He viii PREFACE .
... the same form upward of thirty years . But in the year 1758 the proprietor engaged a gentleman of abilities , very different from those who had formerly been em- ployed , to give it a second purgation . He viii PREFACE .
الصفحة xxv
... engaged in the delightful employment of celebrating the child and champion ' of her glory ! The stile of Plutarch is his least perfect part . Deficient in softness , in harmony , and in grace , his periods are long and dragging , and ...
... engaged in the delightful employment of celebrating the child and champion ' of her glory ! The stile of Plutarch is his least perfect part . Deficient in softness , in harmony , and in grace , his periods are long and dragging , and ...
الصفحة 10
... engaged with him , and slew him . Delighted with the club , he took it for his weapon , and bore it as Hercules did the lion's skin . The skin was a proof of the vast size of the wild beast , which that hero had slain ; and Theseus ...
... engaged with him , and slew him . Delighted with the club , he took it for his weapon , and bore it as Hercules did the lion's skin . The skin was a proof of the vast size of the wild beast , which that hero had slain ; and Theseus ...
الصفحة 12
... engaged in wrestling with Cer- 25 Apollodorus makes her the daughter of Chiron ; but , beside the resemblance of the names ( which might easily lead a tran- scriber of that author into the mistake ) it is highly probable that Plutarch's ...
... engaged in wrestling with Cer- 25 Apollodorus makes her the daughter of Chiron ; but , beside the resemblance of the names ( which might easily lead a tran- scriber of that author into the mistake ) it is highly probable that Plutarch's ...
الصفحة 17
... engaged themselves by treaty to send every ninth year a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins . When these were brought into Crete , as the fabulous account in- forms us , they were destroyed by the Minotaur in the Labyrinth ...
... engaged themselves by treaty to send every ninth year a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins . When these were brought into Crete , as the fabulous account in- forms us , they were destroyed by the Minotaur in the Labyrinth ...
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الصفحة 108 - By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
الصفحة 141 - There were fifteen persons to a table, or a few more or less. Each of them was obliged to bring in monthly a bushel of meal, eight gallons of wine, five pounds of cheese, two pounds and a half of figs, and a little money to buy flesh and fish. If any of them happened to offer a sacrifice of first fruits...
الصفحة 145 - ... possible care of them. He ordered the virgins to exercise themselves in running, wrestling, and throwing quoits and darts ; that their bodies being strong and vigorous, the children afterwards produced from them might be the same ; and that, thus fortified by exercise, they might the better support the pangs of childbirth, and be delivered with safety.
الصفحة 63 - Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done?
الصفحة 18 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
الصفحة 136 - Such a provision they thought sufficient for health and a good habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped, and seeing the shocks standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, ' How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!
الصفحة 157 - How shall we best guard against the invasion of an enemy ?" By continuing poor, and not desiring in your possessions to be one above another. And to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls, That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.
الصفحة 285 - From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
الصفحة 171 - The governors of the youth ordered the shrewdest of them from time to time to disperse themselves in the country, provided only with daggers and some necessary provisions. In the...
الصفحة 155 - The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order one of the boys to sing a song; to another he put some question which required a judicious answer: for example, Who was the best man in the city? or, What he thought of such an action?