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Strona 72 - Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own; I have described nothing...
Strona 181 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Strona 46 - Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
Strona 63 - Well, the Meleans still refused, and their town was taken. "The Athenians," Thucydides quietly says, "thereupon put to death all who were of military age and made slaves of the women and children. They then colonized the island, sending thither five hundred settlers of their own.
Strona 79 - As to the speeches which were made either before or during the war, it was hard for me, and for others who reported them to me, to recollect the exact words. I have therefore put into the mouth of each speaker the sentiments proper to the occasion, expressed as I thought he would be likely to express them, while at the same time I endeavoured, as nearly as I could, to give the general purport of what was actually said.
Strona 69 - To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace.
Strona 73 - But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.
Strona 225 - ... we held our course. Soon there came a heavy sea, that caught the bow of the brigantine as she lay jammed in betwixt the waves ; she bowed her head low under the waters, and shuddered through all her timbers, then gallantly stood up again over the striving sea, with bowsprit entire. But where were the crew ? It was a crew no longer, but rather a gathering of Greek citizens ; the shout of the seamen was changed for the murmuring of the people — the spirit of the old Demos was alive. The men came...
Strona 116 - Whoop-ho! Whoop-ho! Whoop-hoop-hoop-hoop-hoop-ho! Hoi! Hoi! Hoi! Come, come, come, come, come! (The land-birds) Come hither any bird with plumage like my own; Come hither ye that batten on the acres newly sown, On the acres by the farmer neatly sown; And the myriad tribes that feed on the barley and the seed, The tribes that lightly fly, giving out a gentle cry; And ye who round the clod, in the furrow-riven sod, With voices sweet and low, twitter flitter to and fro, Singing...
Strona 111 - When the ships were manned and everything required for the voyage had been placed on board, silence was proclaimed by the sound of the trumpet, and all with one voice before setting sail offered up the customary prayers; these were recited not in each ship, but by a single herald, the whole fleet accompanying him. On every deck both officers and men, mingling wine in bowls, made libations from vessels of gold and silver.