History of the Peloponnesian WarT. Wardle, 1835 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 206 - Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought...
Pagina 206 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.
Pagina 66 - ... just as we excel. The public administration is not confined to a particular family, but is attainable only by merit. Poverty is not a hindrance, since whoever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity.
Pagina 67 - Their last service effaces all former demerits, it extends to the public ; their private demeanors reached only to a few. Yet, not one of these was at all induced to shrink from danger through fondness of those delights which the peaceful affluent life bestows ; not one was the less lavish of his life, through that flattering hope attendant on want, that poverty at length might be exchanged for affluence.
Pagina 67 - ... is an undeniable proof. For we are now the only people of the world, who are found by experience to be greater than in report ; the only people who, repelling the attacks of an invading enemy...
Pagina 65 - I shall first endeavor to show, and then proceed to the praise of the deceased. These, in my opinion, can be no impertinent topics on this occasion; the discussion of them must be beneficial to this numerous company of Athenians and of strangers. We are happy in a form of government which cannot envy the laws of...
Pagina 66 - Our laws have further provided for the mind most frequent intermissions of care by the appointment of public recreations and sacrifices throughout the year, elegantly performed with a peculiar pomp, the daily delight of which is a charm that puts melancholy to flight. The grandeur of this our Athens causeth the produce of the whole earth to be imported here...
Pagina 74 - Nor should I meddle even now with a point,1 pompous beyond poetic visions, did I not see you beyond measure fearful and dejected. You think you are only masters of your own dependents ; but I loudly aver that you are greater masters now both at land and sea, those necessary spheres for carrying on the services of life, than any other power ; and may be greater yet, if so inclined. There is not now a king, there is not any nation in the universal world able to withstand that navy, which at this juncture...
Pagina 8 - It hath been my method to consider principally what might be pertinently said upon every occasion to the points in debate, and to keep as near as possible to what would pass for genuine by universal consent. And as for the actions performed in the course of this war, I have not presumed to describe them...
Pagina 66 - But if anywhere they engage and defeat a small party of our forces, they boastingly give it out a total defeat; and if they are beat, they were certainly overpowered by our united strength.