The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volume 2J. J. Tourneisen and J. L. Legrand, 1790 - 401 pagina's |
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The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From ..., Volume 2 John Gillies Volledige weergave - 1814 |
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Pagina 359 - His death-bed was fur- xv. rounded by his numerous admirers, who dwelt •with complacency on the illuftrious exploits of his glorious life. While they recounted the wifdom of his government, and enumerated the long feries of his victories by fea and land, "You forget...
Pagina 255 - ... promoted the love of action, he found it necessary at least to comply with, if not to excite, the extreme passion for pleasure which then began to distinguish his countrymen. The people of Athens, successful in every enterprise against their foreign as well as domestic enemies, seemed entitled to reap the fruits of their dangers and victories. For the space of at least twelve years preceding the war of Peloponnesus, their city afforded a perpetual scene of triumph and festivity. Dramatic entertainments,...
Pagina 168 - Crotona, intoxicated with prosperity, and instigated by the artful and ambitious Cy'lon, whose turbulent manners had excluded him from the order of Pythag'oras, into which he had repeatedly attempted to enter, became clamorous for an equal partition of the conquered territory of Syb'aris, which being denied, as inconsistent with the nature of...
Pagina 176 - ... Cyprus to the Thracian Bosphorus ; taken possession of forty intermediate islands, together with the important straits which join the Euxine and the ^Egean ; conquered and colonized the winding shores of Thrace and...
Pagina 66 - It was this respect for law that filled the Greek soul and inspired the inscription on one of the monuments at Thermopylae : "Go stranger and declare to the Lacedaemonians that we died here in obedience to their divine laws." Burke says of the law : "It is one of the first and noblest of human sciences, a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together, a science which is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of...
Pagina 257 - ... of plundered provinces ; but it would have been fortunate for the Athenians if their extorted wealth had not been employed in more perishing, as well as mure criminal, luxury.
Pagina 257 - Olympiad, availed themselves of their extensive commerce to import the delicacies of distant countries, which were prepared with all the refinements of cookery. The wines of Cyprus were cooled with snow in summer; in winter the most delightful flowers adorned the tables and persons of the wealthy Athenians. Nor was it sufficient to be crowned with roses, unless they were likewise anointed with the most precious perfumes.
Pagina 255 - Thus the Athenian galleys commanded the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean ; their merchantmen had engrossed the traffic of the adjacent countries ; the magazines of Athens abounded with wood, metal, ebony, ivory, and all the materials of the useful as well as the agreeable arts ; they imported the luxuries of Italy, Sicily, Cyprus, Lyd'ia, Pon'tus, and the Peloponnesus.