Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece Abridged for the Use of SchoolsWhittaker, 1841 - 459 pages |
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... liberty by Thrasybulus SECTION II . 247 The death of Socrates - the retreat of the Ten Thousand ........ 253 SECTION III . The victories of Agesilaus - the peace of Antalcidas CHAPTER XI . The third Peloponnesian war . SECTION I. 259 ...
... liberty by Thrasybulus SECTION II . 247 The death of Socrates - the retreat of the Ten Thousand ........ 253 SECTION III . The victories of Agesilaus - the peace of Antalcidas CHAPTER XI . The third Peloponnesian war . SECTION I. 259 ...
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... liberty . But though this province did not become illustrious by giving birth to great generals , statesmen , or poets , it always possessed good laws , which might well compensate for the deficiency . For a long time the Achæans ...
... liberty . But though this province did not become illustrious by giving birth to great generals , statesmen , or poets , it always possessed good laws , which might well compensate for the deficiency . For a long time the Achæans ...
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... liberty was secured against all attacks of neighbouring states . It was easy to defend Thermopylæ and the Corinthian Isthmus . Even a foreign conqueror could effect little , so long as the nation refused to forge its own chains . 34 ...
... liberty was secured against all attacks of neighbouring states . It was easy to defend Thermopylæ and the Corinthian Isthmus . Even a foreign conqueror could effect little , so long as the nation refused to forge its own chains . 34 ...
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... liberty , we meet with several instances of Cor'inth being fiercely be- sieged and heroically defended ; and suffering fearfully from the vengeance of its barbarous conquerors . In allusion to these circumstances , Lord Byron opens his ...
... liberty , we meet with several instances of Cor'inth being fiercely be- sieged and heroically defended ; and suffering fearfully from the vengeance of its barbarous conquerors . In allusion to these circumstances , Lord Byron opens his ...
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... not inspired by Apollo , but purchased by Philip . After the extinction of Grecian liberty , the Delphic oracle still held on a lingering existence , and its decline was so gradual , that it is impossible to 40 INTRODUCTION .
... not inspired by Apollo , but purchased by Philip . After the extinction of Grecian liberty , the Delphic oracle still held on a lingering existence , and its decline was so gradual , that it is impossible to 40 INTRODUCTION .
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Page 403 - 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 293 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 15 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were: First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole?
Page 156 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 1 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou!
Page 355 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest; a fever at the core, 80 Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Page 340 - crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth...
Page 144 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;— all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 175 - Tis strange — even those who do despair above, Yet shape themselves some fantasy on earth, To which frail twig they cling like drowning men. MAN. Ay — father! I have had those earthly visions And noble aspirations in my youth, To make my own the mind of other men. The enlightener of nations...
Page 456 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.