The Hellenes: The History of the Manners of the Ancient Greeks, Volumes 1-3R. Bentley, 1844 - Greece |
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... discover the secret of that moral alchemy by which were formed Those dead , but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns . In these haunts , little familiar to our imagination , lay concealed the germs of law ...
... discover the secret of that moral alchemy by which were formed Those dead , but sceptred sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns . In these haunts , little familiar to our imagination , lay concealed the germs of law ...
Page xvii
... discover , if we can , how much Hellas owed to its climate , to its position on the globe , and to the physical organization of its inhabitants . It would be absurd to infer with some writers , b VOL . I. that the influence of these ...
... discover , if we can , how much Hellas owed to its climate , to its position on the globe , and to the physical organization of its inhabitants . It would be absurd to infer with some writers , b VOL . I. that the influence of these ...
Page xxvii
... discover to how great an extent the spirit of toleration was carried at Athens . It would be absurd to object the examples of Anax- agoras , Aspasia , and Socrates ; for these were merely instances of the rage of party spirit , from ...
... discover to how great an extent the spirit of toleration was carried at Athens . It would be absurd to object the examples of Anax- agoras , Aspasia , and Socrates ; for these were merely instances of the rage of party spirit , from ...
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... discover some obscure footsteps of the parents of the Greeks , as they continued their journey- ings towards the land which they were afterwards to encircle with glory . Moving through Pontos , Paphla- gonia , and Bithynia , they appear ...
... discover some obscure footsteps of the parents of the Greeks , as they continued their journey- ings towards the land which they were afterwards to encircle with glory . Moving through Pontos , Paphla- gonia , and Bithynia , they appear ...
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... discover along the coast a chain of Pelas- gian settlements founded by Ionians from Athens . " 1 To complete our list of proofs that there was no spot in all Hellas not possessed by the Pelasgi , we find a prince of that race , and ...
... discover along the coast a chain of Pelas- gian settlements founded by Ionians from Athens . " 1 To complete our list of proofs that there was no spot in all Hellas not possessed by the Pelasgi , we find a prince of that race , and ...
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Page 315 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 411 - My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smothered in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 315 - ... were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 414 - But he that is an hireling, and not the Shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Page 216 - And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion...
Page 404 - As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind, And stars shine clear, to whose sweet beams, high prospects, and the brows Of all steep hills and pinnacles, thrust up themselves for shows. And even the lowly valleys joy to glitter in their sight, When the unmeasured firmament bursts to disclose her light, And all the signs in heaven are seen, that glad the shepherd's heart...
Page 293 - And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
Page 157 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th...
Page 400 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 414 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.