Plutarch's Lives, 2권

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David Huntington. A. Paul, printer, 1816
 

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1 페이지 - Plutarch's Lives of illustrious Men. Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by JOHN and WILLIAM LANGHORNE.
137 페이지 - This sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and having covered his eyes with it, asked him, — " If he found any thing terrible in" that, or considered it as a sad presage?" Upon his answering in the negative, he said, — "Where is the difference then between this and the other, except that something bigger than my cloak causes the eclipse?
60 페이지 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. Proud of the yoke, and pliant to the rod. Why yet does Asia dread a monarch's nod, While European freedom still withstands Th...
137 페이지 - Upon his answering in the negative, he said, " Where is the difference, then, between this and the other, except that something bigger than my cloak causes the eclipse ? " But this is a question which is discussed in the schools of philosophy.
112 페이지 - ... and iron-founders : and every art had a number of the lower people ranged in proper subordination to execute it like soldiers under the command of a general. Thus by the exercise of these different trades, plenty was diffused among persons of every rank and condition.
19 페이지 - The embarkation of the people of Athens was a very affecting scene. What pity ! what admiration of the firmness of those men, who, sending their parents and families to a distant place, unmoved with their cries, their tears, or embraces, had the fortitude to leave the city, and embark for Salamis ! What greatly heightened the distress, was the number of citizens whom they were forced to leave behind, because of their extreme old age.
107 페이지 - Athenians who fell in the Samian war, " They are become immortal like the gods : For the gods themselves are not visible to us ; but from the honours they receive, and the happiness they enjoy, we conclude they are immortal; and such should those brave men be who die for their country.
202 페이지 - Timon, famed for his misanthropy, saw Alcibiades, after having gained his point, conducted home with great honour from the place of assembly, he did not shun him as he did other men, but went up to him, and shaking him by the hand, thus addressed him : — " Go on, my brave boy, and prosper ; for your prosperity will bring on the ruin of all this crowd.
98 페이지 - Such also was Philip's saying to his son, when at a certain entertainment he sang in a very...
28 페이지 - This child is greater than any man in Greece; for the Athenians command the Greeks, I command the Athenians, his mother commands me, and he commands his mother.

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