Alexander the Great: A Dramatic PoemH.S. King, 1874 - 231 стор. |
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... pride was the one great vice in his character . Some writers have been eloquent upon Alex- ander's supposed intemperance . But Arrian says , " As to the pleasures which regard the body , he showed himself indifferent ; as to the desires ...
... pride was the one great vice in his character . Some writers have been eloquent upon Alex- ander's supposed intemperance . But Arrian says , " As to the pleasures which regard the body , he showed himself indifferent ; as to the desires ...
Сторінка xvii
... , if not deliberately cruel , yet criminally reckless in the shedding of blood . But the one great vice in his heroic character was pride - that all - per- vading vice which , except in the rarest instances , Preface . xvii.
... , if not deliberately cruel , yet criminally reckless in the shedding of blood . But the one great vice in his heroic character was pride - that all - per- vading vice which , except in the rarest instances , Preface . xvii.
Сторінка xviii
... Pride seems to have been not so much a quality in Alexander , as a primary constituent of his being . If he despised the inferior appetites , as Plutarch affirms , it was because " they reminded him , " like sleep , " of his mortality ...
... Pride seems to have been not so much a quality in Alexander , as a primary constituent of his being . If he despised the inferior appetites , as Plutarch affirms , it was because " they reminded him , " like sleep , " of his mortality ...
Сторінка xix
... pride equal to his own . Alexander's one human affec- tion did not escape the alloy , and the insatiable grief and the insatiable ambition came from the same unmeasured self - will . These are the offences which invite retribution , and ...
... pride equal to his own . Alexander's one human affec- tion did not escape the alloy , and the insatiable grief and the insatiable ambition came from the same unmeasured self - will . These are the offences which invite retribution , and ...
Сторінка xv
... pride was the one great vice in his character . Some writers have been eloquent upon Alex- ander's supposed intemperance . But Arrian says , " As to the pleasures which regard the body , he showed himself indifferent ; as to the desires ...
... pride was the one great vice in his character . Some writers have been eloquent upon Alex- ander's supposed intemperance . But Arrian says , " As to the pleasures which regard the body , he showed himself indifferent ; as to the desires ...
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