Athenian Letters: Or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War. Containing the History of the Times, in Dispatches to the Ministers of State at the Persian Court. Besides Letters on Various Subjects Between Him and His Friends. ...John Archer, 1792 - 525 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... body knows , though the whole revenues of Athens have paffed many years through his hands , he has spent them all in rendring his native coun- try the envy and admiration of strangers , by the magnificence of its buildings , without ...
... body knows , though the whole revenues of Athens have paffed many years through his hands , he has spent them all in rendring his native coun- try the envy and admiration of strangers , by the magnificence of its buildings , without ...
Pagina 12
... bodies of each individual . I will tell thee then , a Perfian would find nothing more furprifing , than the unbounded freedom . of action and conversation which reigns here . The counfels of the great king are impenetrable ; we difcover ...
... bodies of each individual . I will tell thee then , a Perfian would find nothing more furprifing , than the unbounded freedom . of action and conversation which reigns here . The counfels of the great king are impenetrable ; we difcover ...
Pagina 23
... body , it conveys life , warmth , and health , over the political . I found myself much inclined to fall into a train of reflections of this nature in a journey , partly of bufinefs , and partly of pleasure , which I took lately to ...
... body , it conveys life , warmth , and health , over the political . I found myself much inclined to fall into a train of reflections of this nature in a journey , partly of bufinefs , and partly of pleasure , which I took lately to ...
Pagina 28
... bodies , converfing with them , as they moved through the ferene æther in their filent courfes . How noble and ftupendous beyond all the mafter - pieces of art did nature then appear ! how immenfe and aftonishing ! how boundless and ...
... bodies , converfing with them , as they moved through the ferene æther in their filent courfes . How noble and ftupendous beyond all the mafter - pieces of art did nature then appear ! how immenfe and aftonishing ! how boundless and ...
Pagina 34
... , instead of their lives , an immortal monument of praise , ( not fo much that , wherein their bodies are now laid , as a more illuftrious one in the memory of future ages ) . For to men of fame , all the earth is 34 ATHENIAN LETTERS .
... , instead of their lives , an immortal monument of praise , ( not fo much that , wherein their bodies are now laid , as a more illuftrious one in the memory of future ages ) . For to men of fame , all the earth is 34 ATHENIAN LETTERS .
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Ægypt Ægyptian affembly againſt amongſt anſwer Areopagus ARTAXERXES Athenians Athens becauſe befides buſineſs cauſe CLEANDER CLEANDER to GOBRYAS CLEANDER to HYDASPES CLEON confiderable converfation courſe court curiofity defign defire deity diftinguiſhed diſpatch Ecbatana enemies eſtabliſhed eſteem exerciſes expoſed facred faid fame fatrap feems fent fervice feveral fhall fhew fhips fhould fide fince firft firſt folemn fome foon ftate ftatue ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior furprize GOBRYAS greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks hiftory higheſt himſelf honour HYDASPES intereft itſelf juſt king Lacedemon laft laſt LETTER mafter MARDONIUS meaſures MEGABYZUS minifter Mitylene moft moſt muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion OROMASDES ORSAMES OSIRIS Peloponnefian Perfia perfon PERICLES philofopher PHORMIO pleaſed pleaſure prefent preferve prieſts puniſhment raiſed reaſon ſeems ſeveral SITALCES ſome Sparta ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſuch temple Thebes thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou wilt Thrace uſe whofe whoſe wiſdom worſhip XERXES
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Pagina xlv - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Pagina 221 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Pagina 128 - ... dead. After some time he came abroad, and pretended that the intelligence which his friends gave him in his retreat, of the transactions of Crotona, was collected during his stay in the other world among the shades of the departed. He formed his disciples, who came from all parts to put themselves under his direction, into a kind of republic, where none were admitted till a severe probation had sufficiently exercised their patience and docility. He afterwards divided them into esoteric and exoteric...
Pagina 129 - Pherecydes and Thales in the other; following, in this particular, the patterns set him by the Egyptian priests, his instructors, who were not less celebrated for settling the civil than the religious economy of their nation. In imitation of them, Pythagoras gave laws to the republic of Crotona, and brought the inhabitants from a state of luxury and dissoluteness, to be eminent for order and sobriety. While he lived, he was frequently consulted by the neighbouring republics, as the composer of their...
Pagina xiv - The work was supposed to be genuine, and a translation from an old Arabic version ; but when a due interval of time has elapsed the truth may be owned ; the illusion vanishes ; it is a masquerade which is closed ; the fancy dresses and the dominos are returned to the respective wardrobes; the company walk about again in their proper habits, and return to their proper occupations in life."* A copy of this edition having been transmitted by the younger brother of Charles Yorke, created Lord Dover,...
Pagina 10 - The firft queftion you would probably have me refolve, is, what peculiar difference I find in the manners of Greece and Perfia...
Pagina 128 - ... his travels through the east, conversing with the Magi and Indian Brachmans, and mixing their doctrines with those he had learnt in Egypt. He afterwards studied the laws of Minos at crete, and those of Lycurgus at Sparta. Having spent the earlier part of his life in this useful manner, he returned to Samos well acquainted with every thing curious either in nature or art in foreign countries, improved with all the advantages proceeding from a regular and laborious course of learned education,...
Pagina 129 - ... and imagined that between God and man there were various orders of spiritual beings, who administered to the divine will. He believed in the doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls; and held that God was diffused through all parts of the universe, like a kind of universal soul, pervading every particle of matter, and animating every living creature, from the most contemptible reptile to mankind themselves, who shared a larger portion of the Divine spirit. The metempsychosis...
Pagina 33 - In imitation therefore of these men and placing happiness in liberty and liberty in valour, be forward to encounter the dangers of war. For the miserable and desperate men are not they that have the most reason to be prodigal of their lives, but rather...
Pagina 189 - ... important occurrences. I am satisfied, that man is not born for himself only, but for the service of others, . and that there is a law, which directs all to the practice of what is just, and good, and true, planted in every man's breast ; that human laws only inforce this, and bind it upon bad men ; that the good are not influenced by them, and he that attends has no need of any other obligation than what av'scs trom hence.