Die demokratie von Athen, Volume 1

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W. Friedrich, 1891 - 749 pagina's
 

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Pagina liii - ... took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude ? Her power is, indeed, manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain ; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep, — there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence...
Pagina liii - But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better by those pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ; to how many the studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude...
Pagina liii - All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud, in the cause of liberty and reason, there has been her spirit in the midst of them; inspiring, encouraging, consoling; — by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, by the restless bed of Pascal, in the tribune of Mirabeau, in the cell of Galileo, on the scaffold of Sidney.
Pagina xxxviii - Zweifel gerechnet werden muss, ein tiefes sittliches Verderben bis ins innerste Mark des Volkes eingedrungen finden. Wenn die freien Staatsformen und die kleinen unabhängigen Massen, in welche die Völker zersplittert waren, das Leben tief und mannigfach aufregten, wurden sie zugleich...
Pagina 615 - J. Overbeck, Die antiken Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den Griechen (Leipzig 1868) 113, H.
Pagina liii - The dervise, in the Arabian tale, did not hesitate to abandon to his comrade the camels with their load of jewels and gold, while he retained the casket of that mysterious juice which enabled him to behold at one glance all the hidden riches of the universe. Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to...
Pagina liii - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple ; and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts; her influence and her glory will still survive, fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origin, and over which they exercise their control.
Pagina xxxviii - Rückseiten, weniger schön als die gewöhnlich herausgekehrten; betrachtet das Innere des hellenischen Lebens im Staate und in den Familienverhältnissen: ihr werdet selbst in den edelsten Stämmen, zu welchen Athen ohne allen Zweifel gerechnet werden muß, ein tiefes sittliches Verderben bis ins innerste Mark des Volkes eingedrungen finden.
Pagina 726 - ... nam et mediocriter doctos magnos in re publica viros, et doctissimos homines non nimis in re publica versatos multos commemorare possumus: qui vero utraque re excelleret, ut et doctrinae studiis et regenda civitate » princeps esset, quis facile praeter hunc inveniri potest?
Pagina xxx - Die thebanischen Tafeln stündlicher Sternaufgänge; aus den Gräbern der Könige Ramses VI. und Ramses IX. für die vierundzwanzig halbmonatlichen Epochen des Jahres 1262/61 v.

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