A Brief History of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Peoples: With Some Account of Their Monuments, Institutions, Arts, Manners and CustomsA.S. Barnes, 1883 - 600 ページ |
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... crowns of wild olives . Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , the great tragic trio of antiquity , belong to the golden Age of Pericles . The first ex- celled in the sublime , the second in the beautiful , and the third in the pathetic ...
... crowns of wild olives . Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , the great tragic trio of antiquity , belong to the golden Age of Pericles . The first ex- celled in the sublime , the second in the beautiful , and the third in the pathetic ...
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... crown , in which she is no sooner clothed than they burst into flame and con- sume her . To complete her vengeance , Medea murders her two young sons , -so deeply wronged by their father , so tenderly loved by herself , -and then ...
... crown , in which she is no sooner clothed than they burst into flame and con- sume her . To complete her vengeance , Medea murders her two young sons , -so deeply wronged by their father , so tenderly loved by herself , -and then ...
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... crown , the custom being for an orator to wear a crown in token of his inviolability while speaking . Eschines , a fellow - orator , whom he had accused of favoring Philip , opposed the measure . The discussion lasted six years . When ...
... crown , the custom being for an orator to wear a crown in token of his inviolability while speaking . Eschines , a fellow - orator , whom he had accused of favoring Philip , opposed the measure . The discussion lasted six years . When ...
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... their knowledge failed , as in predictions for the future , made the responses so ambiguous or unintelligible that they would seem to be verified by any result . crown was of parsley , the Isthmian of pine . 186 GREECE .
... their knowledge failed , as in predictions for the future , made the responses so ambiguous or unintelligible that they would seem to be verified by any result . crown was of parsley , the Isthmian of pine . 186 GREECE .
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... crown was of parsley , the Isthmian of pine . Sparta took interest only in the Olympic games , with which she had been connected from their beginning , and which , it is curious to note , were the only ones having no intellectual ...
... crown was of parsley , the Isthmian of pine . Sparta took interest only in the Olympic games , with which she had been connected from their beginning , and which , it is curious to note , were the only ones having no intellectual ...
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503 ページ - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
488 ページ - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
99 ページ - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
154 ページ - Be it driven in the face Of the stars up in heaven, as they walk to and fro ! Let him hurl me anon, into Tartarus — on — To the blackest degree, With Necessity's vortices strangling me down ! But he cannot join death to a fate meant for me ! Hermes.
503 ページ - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain...
68 ページ - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
481 ページ - He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.
562 ページ - I. Universal suffrage. 2. Vote by ballot. 3. Annual Parliaments. 4. Payment of members. 5. Abolition of the property qualification. 6. Equal electoral districts.
55 ページ - ... the size and solemn grandeur of its buildings. But, except in this one respect, the great African kingdom must be regarded as inferior to her Asiatic rival — which was indeed "a cedar in Lebanon, exalted above all the trees of the field — fair in...
100 ページ - I had been born beyond the seas, in some remote part of the earth, where the people — far removed from the converting maxims of the ancient kings, and ignorant of the domestic relations — are clothed with the leaves of plants, eat wood, dwell in the wilderness, and live in the holes of the earth.