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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... produced the best soldiers in Greece ; but the fertility of the soil proved their ruin . They rioted in sen- sual enjoyments , and were proverbial for their intense selfish- ness . " Though Olympus , the habitation of the gods , stood ...
... produced the best soldiers in Greece ; but the fertility of the soil proved their ruin . They rioted in sen- sual enjoyments , and were proverbial for their intense selfish- ness . " Though Olympus , the habitation of the gods , stood ...
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... produced several marshes and lakes ; among which , Copa'is , celebrated for its deli- cious eels , is the largest and most remarkable . The soil of Boo'tia was among the most fruitful in Greece , and the country was the most thickly ...
... produced several marshes and lakes ; among which , Copa'is , celebrated for its deli- cious eels , is the largest and most remarkable . The soil of Boo'tia was among the most fruitful in Greece , and the country was the most thickly ...
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... produced such great revolutions in southe ern Greece . X 19. VIII . and IX . Eto'lia and Acarna'nia ; these two provinces , though of considerable size , and as much favoured by nature as any of those we have mentioned , took no pro ...
... produced such great revolutions in southe ern Greece . X 19. VIII . and IX . Eto'lia and Acarna'nia ; these two provinces , though of considerable size , and as much favoured by nature as any of those we have mentioned , took no pro ...
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... produced from the earth by a blow of Neptune's trident , and the sacred olive planted there by Minerva . Behind the Parthen'ion was the public treasury , called from its situation episthod'o- mos , or the house in the rear . In this a ...
... produced from the earth by a blow of Neptune's trident , and the sacred olive planted there by Minerva . Behind the Parthen'ion was the public treasury , called from its situation episthod'o- mos , or the house in the rear . In this a ...
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... produce . 5. The Asiatics could have no idea of political rights or justice ; their patriotism must have consisted in simple at- tachment to the soil , their only connexion with the govern- * The student will easily understand the ...
... produce . 5. The Asiatics could have no idea of political rights or justice ; their patriotism must have consisted in simple at- tachment to the soil , their only connexion with the govern- * The student will easily understand the ...
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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...
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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...