The Hellenes: The History of the Manners of the Ancient Greeks, Volumes 1-3R. Bentley, 1844 - Greece |
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... probably , be ap- proaching another dawn . Comparing the several states of Greece toge- ther , it is customary to bestow the palm of energy and military valour upon the Spartans , who made war their sole profession , and passed their ...
... probably , be ap- proaching another dawn . Comparing the several states of Greece toge- ther , it is customary to bestow the palm of energy and military valour upon the Spartans , who made war their sole profession , and passed their ...
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... Probably on their arrival they found there some few inhabitants who by the isthmus had entered and scattered them- selves at leisure over the peninsula . But whether 5 this was so or not , certain it is that the oldest legends of ...
... Probably on their arrival they found there some few inhabitants who by the isthmus had entered and scattered them- selves at leisure over the peninsula . But whether 5 this was so or not , certain it is that the oldest legends of ...
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... probably it was thence that the first emigrants descended into the valley of the Eurotas , spread themselves through Laconia , and found a mountain on which they bestowed the holy name of Olympos . In this province one of the most ...
... probably it was thence that the first emigrants descended into the valley of the Eurotas , spread themselves through Laconia , and found a mountain on which they bestowed the holy name of Olympos . In this province one of the most ...
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... probably have acquired as complete an idea of that ancient people as existing monuments enable us to frame . Tradi- tion attributed to them the invention of several arts of primary necessity , as those of building houses and ...
... probably have acquired as complete an idea of that ancient people as existing monuments enable us to frame . Tradi- tion attributed to them the invention of several arts of primary necessity , as those of building houses and ...
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... probably commerce , which , by bringing neighbouring nations into close contact , by enlarging the sphere of their experience , and teaching them the advantages to be derived from peaceful in- tercourse , has in all ages softened and ...
... probably commerce , which , by bringing neighbouring nations into close contact , by enlarging the sphere of their experience , and teaching them the advantages to be derived from peaceful in- tercourse , has in all ages softened 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.