Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Contury, Volume 2J. Murray, 1839 |
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Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 2 Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Visualizzazione completa - 1834 |
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Pagina 121 - In medio duo signa, Conon, et — quis fuit alter — Descripsit radio totum qui gentibus orbem, Tempora quae messor, quae curvus arator haberet. Necdum illis labra admovi, sed condita servo.
Pagina 291 - Fremant omnes licet : dicam quod sentio : bibliothecas, mehercule, omnium philosophorum unus mihi videtur XII tabularum libellus, si quis legum fontes et capita viderit, et auctoritatis pondere, et utilitatis ubertate, superare.
Pagina 121 - Phoebi chorus adsurrexerit omnis; ut Linus haec illi divino carmine pastor floribus atque apio crinis ornatus amaro dixerit: 'hos tibi dant calamos, en accipe, Musae, Ascraeo quos ante seni, quibus ille solebat 70 cantando rigidas deducere montibus ornos. his tibi Grynei nemoris dicatur origo, ne quis sit lucus, quo se plus iactet Apollo.
Pagina 91 - It has a masculine grandeur, and a superior air of strength to both the others. It is, therefore, the best adapted to works where magnitude and sublimity are the principal objects. Some of the most ancient temples of Greece were of this order, particularly...
Pagina 44 - Septuairint translation was in use in the time of our Saviour, and is that out of which most of the citations in the New Testament from the Old are taken. It was likewise the canonical translation used by all the Christian churches from the...
Pagina 66 - Achaaan states, who insulted the deputies of imperial Rome. This drew on them at once the thunder of the Roman arms : Metellus marched his legions into Greece, gave them battle, and entirely defeated them. Mummius the consul terminated the work, and made an easy conquest of the whole of Greece, which from that period became a Roman province, under the name of Achaia, 146 BC 4.
Pagina 219 - to thy lover, and carry with thee that degenerate passion which makes thee prefer a dead enemy to the glory of thy country." The offender was brought before the duumviri, two criminal judges appointed by Tullus, and was by them condemned to death. By the advice of Tullus, he appealed to the assembly of the people, who, in compassion to the deliverer of his country, commuted his punishment to passing under the yoke, and at the same time decreed him a trophy. This incident shows one fact of importance,...
Pagina 96 - ... not possible to frame a fourth, but by combining the former. 5. The Gothic architecture offers no contradiction to these observations. The effect which it produces cannot be altogether accounted for from the rules of symmetry or harmony in the proportions between the several parts; but depends on a certain idea of vastness, gloominess, and solemnity, which are powerful ingredients in the sublime.
Pagina 79 - Essay on the History of Civil Society"* thus enlarges on the idea of M. Montesquieu: — "In democracy," says he, "men must love equality ; they must respect the rights of their fellow-citizens ; they must unite by the common ties of affection to the state. In forming personal pretensions, they must be satisfied with that degree of consideration which they can procure by their abilities fairly measured with those of an opponent. They must labour for the public without hope of profit. They must reject...
Pagina 247 - Rome, particularly among the young patricians, who preferred the luxuries and splendor of a royal court to the simplicity and austerity of a republic. A plot was formed to open the gates to receive him, and, upon its being discovered, Brutus had the mortification to...