 To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle...  Thucydides Translated Into English - Page 118by Thucydides - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Henry Allon - 1881 - 588 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing...No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the revenges which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy... | |
 | 1881 - 632 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing...contemporaries is superior to the report of her. No enemy who conies against her is indignant at the revenges which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject... | |
 | 1881 - 564 pages
...have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility aml grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and tho assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For in the... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 786 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing...fact; and the assertion is verified by the position lo which these qualities have raised the State. For in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 788 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing...but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified hy the position to which these qualities have raised the State. For in the hour of trial Athens alone... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 778 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the nsscn ion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the Slate. For in the hour... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 988 pages
...his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth aud fact ; aud the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state.... | |
 | Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 362 pages
...the perils which they face." For confirmation of his statements he points to the Athenian Empire. " In the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. j No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands of such... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 458 pages
...his own person, seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing...Athens, alone among her contemporaries, is superior to her report. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1895 - 64 pages
...of the Pioneers, I could not help applying to Ohio the proud boast of Pericles concerning Athens: " Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. Of how few Hellenes call it be said, as of them, that their deeds, when weighed in the balance, have... | |
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