 For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...  Greece in the Age of Pericles - Page 169by Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
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...upon the transgressor the reprobation of general sentiment. "We are lovers of the beautiful, though simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household, and even... | |
 | 1881 - 534 pages
...force, and beauty of the translation : Our city is equally admirable in peace and war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not only for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 742 pages
...themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For 40. we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth vated by we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there { is a real use for it. To avow poverty... | |
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...themselves to rest ; and thus too, our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 810 pages
...themselves to rest And thus, too, our city is equally admirable in peace and war; for we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the State because he takes care of... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 580 pages
...which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the gainers ? " We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pages
...courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the gainers? " We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1890 - 280 pages
...which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the gainers ? " "We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1886 - 278 pages
...mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - 1889 - 220 pages
...daily feel in these things helps to banish melancholy." " We are lovers of the beautiful, though \ simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of 1 manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To... | |
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