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... executors . They were published by Mathias in 1814 , and have never since been reprinted . It has been thought best to print the Greek , in this instance , as Gray wrote it.-ED. ] 1 ACHARNENSES . Olymp . 88. 3 . Ir1 appears.
... executors . They were published by Mathias in 1814 , and have never since been reprinted . It has been thought best to print the Greek , in this instance , as Gray wrote it.-ED. ] 1 ACHARNENSES . Olymp . 88. 3 . Ir1 appears.
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... an eatable bird . It appears also , that the Greeks eat hedge - hogs , foxes , locusts , moles , otters , and cats . ( see Athenæus , L. 17 , p . 300. ) The Megareans brought salt , swine , garlick , & c . , ACHARNENSES . 5.
... an eatable bird . It appears also , that the Greeks eat hedge - hogs , foxes , locusts , moles , otters , and cats . ( see Athenæus , L. 17 , p . 300. ) The Megareans brought salt , swine , garlick , & c . , ACHARNENSES . 5.
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... Greek cookery , to make a Opîov . The 1st was in this manner : they boiled rice , or fine flour in grains ( called Xovôpos ) till it was tender ; then they kneaded it up with new cheese , and eggs , wrapped up the whole in a fig - leaf ...
... Greek cookery , to make a Opîov . The 1st was in this manner : they boiled rice , or fine flour in grains ( called Xovôpos ) till it was tender ; then they kneaded it up with new cheese , and eggs , wrapped up the whole in a fig - leaf ...
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... Greek children from ten years old to thirteen were sent to the T'pappaтurns , who taught them to read and write , then to the Kilapioτns , and next to the Παιδοτρίβης . 964. The odes of Lamprocles son of Midon an Athenian , and of ...
... Greek children from ten years old to thirteen were sent to the T'pappaтurns , who taught them to read and write , then to the Kilapioτns , and next to the Παιδοτρίβης . 964. The odes of Lamprocles son of Midon an Athenian , and of ...
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... Greeks never undertook any thing of consequence . Their errand is to enquire of the birds , who are the greatest travellers of any nation , where they may meet with a quiet easy settlement , far from all prosecutions , law - suits , and ...
... Greeks never undertook any thing of consequence . Their errand is to enquire of the birds , who are the greatest travellers of any nation , where they may meet with a quiet easy settlement , far from all prosecutions , law - suits , and ...
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Page 217 - ... not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances...
Page 269 - Druids held the immortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punishments...
Page 127 - Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not; it is what 'eye hath not seen, ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive'.
Page 127 - ... in its natural state. But yet excess of cold as well as heat pains us, because it is equally destructive to that temper which is necessary to the preservation of life, and the exercise of the several functions of the body, and which consists in a moderate degree of warmth ; or, if you please, a motion of the insensible parts of our bodies, confined within certain bounds.
Page 212 - who are possessed of this faculty,' (that is, of fetching a voice from the belly or stomach) 'can manage their voice in so wonderful a manner that it shall seem to come from what part they please, not of themselves only, but of any other person in the company, or even from the bottom of a well, down a chimney, from below stairs, &c. &c. of which I myself have been witness.
Page 241 - there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right.