Essays from the London Times: Second SeriesD. Appleton, 1852 - 261 стор. |
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... Cleon banished Thucydides after his miscarriage at Amphipolis , and that hence . Thucydides hates and slanders Cleon . The statement that Cleon was the author of the historian's banishment is drawn from the life of Thucydides by ...
... Cleon banished Thucydides after his miscarriage at Amphipolis , and that hence . Thucydides hates and slanders Cleon . The statement that Cleon was the author of the historian's banishment is drawn from the life of Thucydides by ...
Сторінка 166
... Cleon is that Cleon banished him , as we learn from Marcellinus . " 66 Now the first thing that we hear of Cleon is not from Thucydides , but from Plutarch . Pericles refuses to let the Athenians march out against the Peloponnesians ...
... Cleon is that Cleon banished him , as we learn from Marcellinus . " 66 Now the first thing that we hear of Cleon is not from Thucydides , but from Plutarch . Pericles refuses to let the Athenians march out against the Peloponnesians ...
Сторінка 167
... Cleon comes forward to repel the overtures made by the Lacedæmonians for peace after their defeat in the Roads of Pylos . The manœuvre which he em- ployed to discredit the good faith of the Lacedæmonian ambassadors on this occasion is ...
... Cleon comes forward to repel the overtures made by the Lacedæmonians for peace after their defeat in the Roads of Pylos . The manœuvre which he em- ployed to discredit the good faith of the Lacedæmonian ambassadors on this occasion is ...
Сторінка 168
... Cleon when he spoke , which had cleared the island of part of the wood , and rendered an attack more practicable . But it was mad of Cleon to undertake it ; and it was mad in a man wholly destitute of military knowledge and capacity ...
... Cleon when he spoke , which had cleared the island of part of the wood , and rendered an attack more practicable . But it was mad of Cleon to undertake it ; and it was mad in a man wholly destitute of military knowledge and capacity ...
Сторінка 169
... Cleon by his joyful partisans , who had helped to invest him with the duties of general , in confidence that he would discharge them well , " he leaves his evidence , and even his good sense , behind him . As to the conduct of Nicias ...
... Cleon by his joyful partisans , who had helped to invest him with the duties of general , in confidence that he would discharge them well , " he leaves his evidence , and even his good sense , behind him . As to the conduct of Nicias ...
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Сторінка 121 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Сторінка 48 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Сторінка 45 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out— to some one of his race: So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Сторінка 45 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say ' This poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
Сторінка 44 - Practiser in Physic.) Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well...
Сторінка 90 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Сторінка 50 - Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein?
Сторінка 89 - What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave uncredited; at your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of "reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat; — and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces!
Сторінка 106 - ... till when there was some hope he might have been a prisoner, though his nearest friends, who knew his temper, received small comfort from that imagination. Thus fell that incomparable young man in the four-and-thirtieth year of his age, having so much despatched the true business of life that the eldest rarely attain to that immense knowledge, and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency. Whosoever leads such a life, needs be the less anxious upon how short warning it is taken...
Сторінка 134 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.