Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, المجلد 11819 |
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الصفحة 89 - The 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. Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Lingering
الصفحة xiv - in these political inquiries to find any proportion between the apparent force of any moral causes we may assign, and their known operation. We are therefore obliged to deliver up that operation to mere chance, or more piously (perhaps, more rationally) to the occasional interposition and irresistible
الصفحة xxxv - fountain. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are 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
الصفحة 48 - Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who ho was, and what he had done.
الصفحة 319 - This " child is greater than any man in Greece; for the " Athenians command the Greeks, I command the •* Athenians, his mother commands me, and he " commands his mother." As he loved to be particular in every thing, when he happened to sell a farm, he ordered the crier to add, " that it had a good neighbour.
الصفحة xxxv - long as it lived. The graves of Cimon'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 have brought up and cherished ; and among the rest
الصفحة xxxvi - by his master upon a promontory to this day called the * Dog's Grave.' We certainly ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household goods, which when worn out with use we throw away ; and, were it only to teach benevolence
الصفحة 140 - thirst of honour, an enthusiasm bordering upon insanity, and had not a wish but for their country. These sentiments are confirmed by some of their aphorisms. When Paedaretus lost his election for one of the Three Hundred, he went away rejoicing, that there were three hundred better men than himself found
الصفحة 125 - he inflicted: so that their whole education was an exercise of obedience. The old men were present at their diversions, and often suggested some occasion of dispute or quarrel, that they might observe with exactness the spirit of each, and their firmness in battle. As for learning
الصفحة 129 - magistrates often, attended these little trials, to see whether the Iren exercised his authority in a rational and proper manner. He was permitted, indeed, to inflict the penalties; but when the boys were gone, he was to be chastised himself, if he had punished them either with too much