Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece: Abridged, by the Addition of Several New Chapters and Numerous Useful Notes. Together with Questions for Examination at the End of Each Section. Illustrated with Thirty-two Engravings on Wood by AthertonThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1843 - 372 pages |
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... work on the political history of Greece : they - contain a view of the principal causes that operated in forming the na- tional character of that people , whose history the student is about to peruse , and a sketch of those 3.
... work on the political history of Greece : they - contain a view of the principal causes that operated in forming the na- tional character of that people , whose history the student is about to peruse , and a sketch of those 3.
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... formed a part , and the Corinthian isthmus . It contained the city of Meg'ara and the celebrated sea - port Nisæ'a . Megaris was wrested from the Ionic inhabitants of Attica by a Dorict colony . 13. III . Bœo'tia lay to the northwest of ...
... formed a part , and the Corinthian isthmus . It contained the city of Meg'ara and the celebrated sea - port Nisæ'a . Megaris was wrested from the Ionic inhabitants of Attica by a Dorict colony . 13. III . Bœo'tia lay to the northwest of ...
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... formed ; the lower part was a square pillar , on which moral sentences were written for the instruction of the people . 9. At the extremity of the Cerami'cus , near the Acrop'o- lis , stood the temple of The'seus , the most beautiful ...
... formed ; the lower part was a square pillar , on which moral sentences were written for the instruction of the people . 9. At the extremity of the Cerami'cus , near the Acrop'o- lis , stood the temple of The'seus , the most beautiful ...
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... formed the ground - work of the different religious systems that prevailed in the East . They did , indeed , sometimes represent their deities in the human form , because men naturally associate ideas of excellence with their own shape ...
... formed the ground - work of the different religious systems that prevailed in the East . They did , indeed , sometimes represent their deities in the human form , because men naturally associate ideas of excellence with their own shape ...
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... formed by the poets , and upheld by the fine arts . To use the expressive words of an old philosopher , its gods were immortal men , and its men were mortal gods . Instead of the single attribute of brute force , the divinities of ...
... formed by the poets , and upheld by the fine arts . To use the expressive words of an old philosopher , its gods were immortal men , and its men were mortal gods . Instead of the single attribute of brute force , the divinities of ...
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Achæans Alcibi'ades Alexander allies ancient Arca'dia Argives Aristei'des Aristom'enes army Asia Asiatic assistance Athenians Athens attack Attica banishment battle became Boeotia Cassander cause celebrated character citizens colonies command conduct confederates consequence Corinth countrymen courage Darius death declared defeated defence Delphi Demos'thenes endeavoured enemy engagement Epaminon'das Epaminondas expedition favour fleet forces former galleys garrison Grecian Greeks Hippias honour hundred inhabitants invaders invasion island king Lacedæmo'nians Laco'nia land laws length liberty Lycurgus Macedon Macedonian Mardo'nius Messe'nians monarch mountains Ni'cias nians oracle orator Pausa'nias peace Peloponnesian PELOPONNESIAN WAR Peloponnesus Per'icles Persian Persian war Philip Phocians poets possession principal Questions for Examination received remarkable resolved retreat Romans Sal'amis Saronic gulf satraps seized sent ships siege soldiers Solon soon Spartans subdued success surrender Syracu'sans temple Thebans Thebes Themis'tocles Thessaly thousand Thrace tion took tribes Trojan war troops tyrant valour victory Xerx'es Xerxes
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Page 305 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 28 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 256 - crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth...
Page 164 - Cicero had reason to observe, speaking of the battles in the harbour of Syracuse, that it was there the troops of Athens, as well as their galleys, were ruined and sunk ; and that, in this harbour, the power and glory of the Athenians were miserably shipwrecked. The Athenians, however, did not suffer themselves to be wholly dejected, but resumed courage.
Page 148 - Athenians, that even success would profit the enemy but little, should they be conquerors, whereas if they were defeated, Sparta itself was hardly safe.
Page 125 - It is even asserted that he did not leave money enough behind him to defray the expense of his funeral, but that the government was obliged to bear the charge of it, and to maintain his family. His daughters were...
Page 363 - The controllers of the public schools of the first school district of Pennsylvania...
Page 136 - No skill could obviate, nor remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The humanity of friends was fatal to themselves, as it was ineffectual to the unhappy sufferers.
Page 99 - But this bridge, when completed, being carried away by the current, Xerxes, like a tyrant, wreaked his vengeance upon the workmen, and, like a lunatic, upon the sea. He caused the heads of the former to be struck off, and a certain number of lashes to be inflicted upon the latter, to punish it for its insolence ; and fetters to be thrown into it, to teach it, for the future, obedience to his will : a striking proof how much the possession of despotic power tends not only to corrupt the heart, but...