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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... victory ; the other was adorned with paintings executed by Polygno'tus . 5. The citadel had nine gates : on the north it was fortified by the Pelas- gic wall , said to have been erected by the ancient Pelasgi ; on the south it was at ...
... victory ; the other was adorned with paintings executed by Polygno'tus . 5. The citadel had nine gates : on the north it was fortified by the Pelas- gic wall , said to have been erected by the ancient Pelasgi ; on the south it was at ...
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... victory more by the skill of the rider or charioteer than by the strength or swiftness of the horses . 6. The contests between musicians , artists , poets , & c . were secondary objects in the Olym'pic games , but formed the principal ...
... victory more by the skill of the rider or charioteer than by the strength or swiftness of the horses . 6. The contests between musicians , artists , poets , & c . were secondary objects in the Olym'pic games , but formed the principal ...
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... victory obtained at Arginu'sæt by the Athenians , in the second Peloponnesian war , was , however , entirely owing to the skill of the admirals ; they had their vessels drawn up in double lines , and were thus enabled to break through ...
... victory obtained at Arginu'sæt by the Athenians , in the second Peloponnesian war , was , however , entirely owing to the skill of the admirals ; they had their vessels drawn up in double lines , and were thus enabled to break through ...
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... victory , and immediately retreated into their own country . In compliment to his memory , the Athenians abolished the title of king , and their rulers were for the future denominated Ar'chons . The Ar'chons at first held their place ...
... victory , and immediately retreated into their own country . In compliment to his memory , the Athenians abolished the title of king , and their rulers were for the future denominated Ar'chons . The Ar'chons at first held their place ...
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... victory and thus the enemy , knowing that all who resisted were put to the sword , often took to flight as the most effectual means of insuring their safety . 8. With the Spartans themselves the case was directly the reverse ; for their ...
... victory and thus the enemy , knowing that all who resisted were put to the sword , often took to flight as the most effectual means of insuring their safety . 8. With the Spartans themselves the case was directly the reverse ; for their ...
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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...