Plutarch's Lives, المجلد 1Lackington, Allen & Company and Cuthell & Martin, 1803 |
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الصفحة xi
... young people , who ought to read their own language in its native purity , unmixed and untainted with the idioms of different tongues . For their sakes too , as well as for the sake of readers of a different class , we have omitted some ...
... young people , who ought to read their own language in its native purity , unmixed and untainted with the idioms of different tongues . For their sakes too , as well as for the sake of readers of a different class , we have omitted some ...
الصفحة xvi
... young when Nero entered Greece ; ) to make it clearly understood , whether he studied at Delphi at ten , or at eighteen years of age , is of much less consequence , than it is to know by what means , and under what auspices , he ...
... young when Nero entered Greece ; ) to make it clearly understood , whether he studied at Delphi at ten , or at eighteen years of age , is of much less consequence , than it is to know by what means , and under what auspices , he ...
الصفحة xx
... young philosopher . This was the improvement of the memory , by means of exercise . Mr. Locke has justly , though obviously enough , observed , that nothing so much strengthens this faculty as the employment of it . The Greek mode of ...
... young philosopher . This was the improvement of the memory , by means of exercise . Mr. Locke has justly , though obviously enough , observed , that nothing so much strengthens this faculty as the employment of it . The Greek mode of ...
الصفحة xxiii
... young , " but when old and past service . Thus the people of " Athens , when they had finished the Temple called " Hecatompedon , set at liberty the beasts of burthen that " had been chiefly employed in the work , suffering them " to ...
... young , " but when old and past service . Thus the people of " Athens , when they had finished the Temple called " Hecatompedon , set at liberty the beasts of burthen that " had been chiefly employed in the work , suffering them " to ...
الصفحة xxvi
... young man , along with another citizen of Cheronea , on an embassy to the proconsul . My colleague being , by some accident , obliged to stop on the way , I proceeded without him , and executed our commission . Upon my return to ...
... young man , along with another citizen of Cheronea , on an embassy to the proconsul . My colleague being , by some accident , obliged to stop on the way , I proceeded without him , and executed our commission . Upon my return to ...
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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.