Plutarch's Lives, المجلد 1Lackington, Allen & Company and Cuthell & Martin, 1803 |
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الصفحة xx
... lived in his memory , they were ready for use and application on every apposite occasion . They were always at hand , either to confirm the sentiments , and justify the principles of his heroes , to support his own , or to illustrate ...
... lived in his memory , they were ready for use and application on every apposite occasion . They were always at hand , either to confirm the sentiments , and justify the principles of his heroes , to support his own , or to illustrate ...
الصفحة xxiii
... lived . The graves of Simon's mares , with which he " thrice conquered at the Olympic games , are still to be " seen near his own tomb . Many have shown particular " marks of regard , in burying the dogs which they had " cherished and ...
... lived . The graves of Simon's mares , with which he " thrice conquered at the Olympic games , are still to be " seen near his own tomb . Many have shown particular " marks of regard , in burying the dogs which they had " cherished and ...
الصفحة xxxii
... lived , and to the reception he met with in Rome . During his residence in that city , his house was the resort of the principal citizens . All that were distinguished by their rank , taste , learning , or politeness , sought his ...
... lived , and to the reception he met with in Rome . During his residence in that city , his house was the resort of the principal citizens . All that were distinguished by their rank , taste , learning , or politeness , sought his ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... lived in the strictest friendship whilst he was in Rome , but corresponded with , him after he retired to Greece . And not easy to believe , that through the interest of this zealous and powerful friend , Plutarch might not only be ...
... lived in the strictest friendship whilst he was in Rome , but corresponded with , him after he retired to Greece . And not easy to believe , that through the interest of this zealous and powerful friend , Plutarch might not only be ...
الصفحة 52
... lived about the time of Romulus . Homer had given the same account of the Abantes above three hundred years before . For , in the second book of the Iliad , he tells us , the Abantes pierced the breast - plates of their enemies with ...
... lived about the time of Romulus . Homer had given the same account of the Abantes above three hundred years before . For , in the second book of the Iliad , he tells us , the Abantes pierced the breast - plates of their enemies with ...
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الصفحة 115 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust 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.
الصفحة 135 - There were not even to be found in all their country either sophists, wandering fortune-tellers, keepers of infamous houses, or dealers in gold and silver trinkets, because there was no money. Thus luxury, losing by degrees the means that cherished and supported it, died away of itself. Even {hey who had great possessions had no advantage from them, since they could not be displayed in public, but must lie useless in unregarded repositories.
الصفحة 174 - Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being. During the first hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding.
الصفحة 269 - Tis true I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute, but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.
الصفحة 134 - ... and consequently unfit for any other service. In the next place, he excluded unprofitable and superfluous arts. Indeed, if he had not done this, most of them would have fallen of themselves when the new money took place, as the manufactures could not be disposed of.
الصفحة 139 - These would remain immovable, as founded in inclination, and be the strongest and most lasting tie; and the habits which education produced in the youth would answer in each the purpose of a lawgiver. As for smaller matters, contracts about property, and whatever occasionally varied, it was better not to reduce these to a written form and unalterable method, but to suffer them to change with the times...
الصفحة 140 - As for the education of youth, which he looked upon as the greatest and most glorious work of a lawgiver, he began with it at the very source, taking into consideration their conception and birth, by regulating the marriages. For he did not (as Aristotle says) desist from his attempt to bring the women tinder sober rules.
الصفحة xxiii - Assiduous and indefatigable application to reading made a considerable part of the Greek education ; and in this, our biographer seems to have exerted the greatest industry. The number of books he has quoted, to which he has referred, and from which he has...
الصفحة 144 - As for learning,* they had just what was absolutely necessary. All the rest of their education was calculated to make them subject to command, to endure labour, to fight and conquer. They added, therefore, to their discipline, as they advanced in age, cutting their hair very close, making them go barefoot, and play, for the most part, quite naked. At twelve years of age, their under-garment was taken away, and but one upper one a-year allowed them.
الصفحة 154 - Upon the whole, he taught his citizens to think nothing more disagreeable than to live by (or for) themselves. Like bees, they acted with one impulse for the public good, and always assembled about their prince. They were possessed with a thirst of honour, an enthusiasm bordering upon insanity, and had not a wish but for their country.