A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great, Tom 4

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J. Murray, 1862

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Strona 362 - It should seem, to my way of conceiving such matters, that there is a very wide difference in reason and policy, between the mode of proceeding on...
Strona 429 - We had been so very powerful, and so very prosperous, that even the humblest of us were degraded into the vices and follies of kings.
Strona 269 - Moreover, we always hear and pronounce on public matters, when discussed by our leaders, or perhaps strike out for ourselves correct reasonings about them; far from accounting discussion an impediment to action, we complain only if we are not told what is to be done before it becomes our duty to do it. For, in truth, we combine in the most remarkable manner these two qualities, extreme boldness in execution, with full debate beforehand on that which we are going about; whereas with others, ignorance...
Strona 271 - This portion of the speech of Perikles deserves peculiar attention, because it serves to correct an assertion, often far too indiscriminately made, respecting antiquity as contrasted with modern societies - an assertion that the ancient societies sacrificed the individual to the state, and that only in modern times has individual agency been left free to the proper extent.
Strona 282 - Elate with their own escape, they deemed themselves out of the reach of all disease, and were full of compassionate kindness for others whose sufferings were just beginning. It was from them too that the principal attention to the bodies of deceased victims proceeded : for such was the state of dismay and sorrow that even the nearest relatives neglected the sepulchral duties, sacred beyond all others in the eyes of a Greek.
Strona 362 - ... the irregular conduct of scattered individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Strona 268 - ... are enforced by a common sense of shame. Besides this, we have provided for our minds numerous recreations from toil, partly by our customary solemnities of sacrifice and festival throughout the year, partly by the elegance of our private establishments, — the daily charm of which banishes the sense of discomfort. From the magnitude of our city...
Strona 429 - England) you were greatly divided ; and a very strong body, if not the strongest, opposed itself to the madness which every art and every power were employed to render popular, in order that the errors of the rulers might be lost in the general blindness of the nation.
Strona 268 - ... at home. In respect to training for war, we differ from our opponents (the Lacedaemonians) on several material points. First, we lay open our city as a common resort: we apply no xenelasy to exclude...
Strona 268 - Lacedemonians, even from their earliest youth, subject themselves to an irksome exercise for the attainment of courage, we, with our easy habits of life, are not less prepared than they to encounter all perils within the measure of our strength. . . . " We combine taste for the beautiful with frugality of life, and cultivate intellectual speculation without being enervated : we employ wealth for the service of our occasions, not for the ostentation of talk ; nor is it disgraceful to any one who is...

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