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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... soon deserted ; the other two were celebrated for affording safe anchorage , and a shelter secure against every storm . The Peira'us was the most important haven ; it in fact was a city by itself , with its own squares , temples , and ...
... soon deserted ; the other two were celebrated for affording safe anchorage , and a shelter secure against every storm . The Peira'us was the most important haven ; it in fact was a city by itself , with its own squares , temples , and ...
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... importance before the time of the Trojan war , and soon after the Doric invasion , * was considered the principa ! * See History , chap . I. city of the Peloponnesus . The name Sparta was strictly c 2 PRINCIPAL GRECIAN CITIES . 29.
... importance before the time of the Trojan war , and soon after the Doric invasion , * was considered the principa ! * See History , chap . I. city of the Peloponnesus . The name Sparta was strictly c 2 PRINCIPAL GRECIAN CITIES . 29.
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... soon become too numerous for its limited extent , and that the Corinthian colonies would be more numerous than those of any other city . As it was the very key of the Peloponnesus , we might have expected that Corinth would have held ...
... soon become too numerous for its limited extent , and that the Corinthian colonies would be more numerous than those of any other city . As it was the very key of the Peloponnesus , we might have expected that Corinth would have held ...
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... soon caused to be universally adopted . 2. Instead of enumerating the names and attributes of the deities , which may be found in any pantheon , we shall en- deavour rather to discover what was the nature of the Gre- cian religion , in ...
... soon caused to be universally adopted . 2. Instead of enumerating the names and attributes of the deities , which may be found in any pantheon , we shall en- deavour rather to discover what was the nature of the Gre- cian religion , in ...
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... soon fol- lowed by others , and in a short time , the army of the state is entirely made up of the poorer order of citizens . It soon becomes necessary to grant them a small allowance for their support , and thus the militia is ...
... soon fol- lowed by others , and in a short time , the army of the state is entirely made up of the poorer order of citizens . It soon becomes necessary to grant them a small allowance for their support , and thus the militia is ...
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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...