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...ic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as Troy, long considered a mere fab... ...s etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle appears to be a British institution, as ancient as the monarchy and a lot more rewarding. The surpri... ...reat_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of modern knowle... ...onal hygiene was rediscovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. W... ...ulti-cellular organisms, such as plants and humans, evolved over billions of years. Ancient bacteria infiltrated the first eukaryotic cells - i.e., ... ...ans poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot. In the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), the Spartans flung sulfur and pitch at the Athenians and their allie...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ... a more authenticall testimonie of humane imbecilitie, it is noted by our Ancients that Diodorus the Logician, being surprised with an extreme passi... ...ing by shooting of arrowes to draw God to some reason. Now, as saith that ancient Poet in Plutarch, Point ne se faut corroucer aux affaires, Il ne ... ...tifie himselfe when he is assailed by a violent fever. It onely belongs to Spartans to tricke, to combe and wash themselves at what time they are rea...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...with Daoism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient... ...wards. This graveness of spirit which became known as gravity comes from the ancient Latin word ‘gravitas’. These swindles of misperception go all... ...2 lifestyle that came to be admired by the other Greek warrior cultures. The Spartans became so impoverished when there was no war: that they began... ...monsters did they create from these kinds of unions? Read the history of the Spartans. Sift the truth from the lies and your eyes will be opened. ... ...e truth from the lies and your eyes will be opened. The ruling class of the Spartans became extinct. They died out so fast: that by the time Rome ... ...out so fast: that by the time Rome became an Empire: there were no more elite Spartans left alive. Imperial Rome used Sparta as a sexual tourist at...

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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...o you break off?” I asked. He did not answer but said: “They knew, those ancients, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...s... ...ds by the seaward window in her library... carved ivory racks hold books, ancient papyri, Egyptian clay tablets, copies of hymns. Blue from the b... ...rn again. Here is a book, on my desk, entitled Sparta. I believe that the Spartans were often respected for their courage. What is it men fear mos... ...en fear most? Death? Ten men will have ten answers. From the days of the Spartans men have floundered over freedom—spelling it a hundred different ...

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...ulsive-ritualistic behaviour. The narcissist feels guilty. It could be an "ancient" guilt, a "sexual" guilt (Freud), or a "social" guilt. In early ... ...it is highly unlikely that Jesus was an illegitimate child. Adulteresses in ancient Judea were stoned to death. But, equally, there is little doubt ... ...cult of personality. Modern-day Macedonians, desperately looking for their ancient roots in a region hostile to their nationhood, have latched onto... ...bsequious historian (and nephew of Aristotle) who wouldn't bow to him. The Spartans held Alexander in derision. They published a decree that read: ...

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...eption, abortion, infanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the... ...tion, infanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the elements de... ...oving drive to make the world a better place. “I’m driven by that ancient Native American reminder that ‘We have not inherited this world ... ...f Jews and ‘niggers.’(11) “The free speech of Socrates was muted in ancient Athens, when his gadfly bite forced those who were able—to think...

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...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ...an or Muslim, you are a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of... ...y one god who is different from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple... ...t to a woman‘s life?‖ --―Is all life equally valuable? The ancient Spartans placed their babies on a hill to see which would survive. The sur... ...ables, especially the criminals, by killing them. And as with the ancient Spartans and many other societies, killing of undesirable infants is good ...

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...ods of existence, returning into this world when she has paid the penalty of ancient crime, and, having wandered over all places of the upper and unde... ...hilosophy says that all things in nature are de pendent on one another; the ancient philosopher had the same truth latent in his mind when he affirme... ...shrewd reflection, which may admit of an application to modern as well as to ancient teachers, that the Sophists having made large fortunes; this must... ... material, the one above the many , the mind before the body . The stream of ancient philosophy in the Alexandrian and Roman times widens into a lake ... ...nally spreading over the continent of Europe. It is and is not the same with ancient philosophy . There is a great deal in modern philosophy which is ... ...SOCRATES: And the women too, Meno, call good men divine—do they not? and the Spartans, when they praise a good man, say ‘that he is a divine man.’ MEN...

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...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... and awe of him; many foreign nations, too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fide... ...s so called because the citizens were called Quirites; others, because the ancients called a dart or spear Quiris; thus, the statue of Juno resting on... ...inly was the most renowned of all his ancestors, under whose con- duct the Spartans made slaves of the Helots, and added to their dominions, by conque... ...s, who, in the first allotment, were thought to have been luckier than the Spartans; yet was their happiness but of small continuance, partly the tyra... ... existing institutions, as clearly to show how truly divine a blessing the Spartans had had in that wise lawgiver who gave their government its happy ... ...d to the city of Sparta into nine thousand; these he distributed among the Spartans, as he did the others to the country citizens. Some authors say th...

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...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ...ur habitations you shall eat unleavened bread. 21 And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by you... ...nd the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Is- rael: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst str... ..., to con rm and to renew the amity with them: 2 And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places, according to the same form. 3 And they went ... ...ith peace. 5 And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: 6 Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and ... ...he nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting. 7 There were letters sent long ago to O... ...s the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias: 20 Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest, greeting. 21 It is found in writing co...

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......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...eserva- tion; and that the buildings of this bastard Rome, raised upon the ancient productions, although they might excite the ad- miration of the pre... ...n simply out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that i... ... to the Spartan nation the pre-eminence of valour in the en- gagement. The Spartans, great judges of virtue, when they came to determine to what parti... ...ise, “Consiliis nostris laus est attrita Laconum;” [“The glory of the Spartans is extinguished by my plans. — ”Cicero, Tusc. Quaes., v. 17.] 373...

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... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ... ensue. But Lysander was not wanting with an evasion, alleging that if the Spartans were really apprehensive of the oracle, they must have a care of L... ...ing great naval preparations, resolving with a high hand to dispossess the Spartans of their maritime supremacy . Lysander was eager for the opportuni... ... assembly, offered his ser- vice, upon condition that he might have thirty Spartans for captains and counselors, two thousand chosen men of the newly ... ...the Persian forces when and how he pleased, and that he at the head of the Spartans, then sovereigns both at sea and land, should not achieve some mem... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...ace. When Epaminondas restored Messene, and recalled from all quarters the ancient citizens to inhabit it, they were not able to obstruct the design, ... ...from Agesilaus; who was slain by Leonidas, while attempting to restore the ancient discipline of Sparta. 89 Plutarch’s Lives POMP POMP POMP POMP POMP...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...the other, sad, fuscous, begrimed with the snuff of ages, namely, the most ancient Schreiber. Ah! if they could have been divided—these twin yoke-fell... ...ly; such me- mentos, I mean, as, by reviving painful recollections of that ancient Schreiber, who was or ought to be by this time ex- tinct, would nat... ...cted in a spirit of religious indifference, though it is remarkable of the Spartans, that of all Greek tribes they were the most facile and numerous d...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...ential points, must have remained the secret of the poet.” [Note: Heeren’s Ancient Greece, p. 96.] From this criticism, which shows as much insight in... ...ælio, oo dixa tæs sphodrotætos paramenei to megethos] and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names [Note: See Tatian, quoted in Fabric. Bibl... ...oves along the main. His brother follows, and to vengeance warms The hardy Spartans, exercised in arms: Phares and Brysia’s valiant troops, and those ...

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...ling up through smoke and thousand- fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunt- i... ...sary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would of... ...ng by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give... ...begs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indicates, are the more ancient), Hussar cloaks, Vandyke tippets, ruffs, fardingales, are brought v... ...enceforth be profitably incor- porated with Mr. Merrick’s valuable Work On Ancient Ar- mor? Take, by way of example, the following sketch; as authorit... ..., imparted to all?” Quite in an opposite strain is the following: “The old Spartans had a wiser method; and went out and hunted down their Helots, and...

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...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...those who had sons, so that no family might be altogether destroyed. These Spartans, with their helots or slaves, made up his own share of the numbers... ...not see over the wall, but in front of it, and on the ramparts, he saw the Spartans, some of them engaged in active sports, and others in combing thei... ... hard fight was no doubt in preparation, and that it was the custom of the Spartans to array their hair with special care when they were about to ente... ...kwards; and thus for two days it seemed as easy to force a way through the Spartans as through the rocks themselves. Nay, how could slavish troops, dr... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t... ...e both very distinguished men. Manlius was a patrician, or one of the high ancient nobles of Rome, and had in early youth fought a single combat with ... ...TH TH TH TH 1308 1308 1308 1308 1308 ONE of the ladies most admired by the ancient Romans was Arria, the wife of Caecina Paetus, a Roman who was con- ...

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...he family of 171 Balzac Sallenauve is, after that of Cinq-Cygne, the most ancient fam- ily in the department of the Aube. I ought to add that the exh... ...amily of to-day children have taken the place of the household gods of the ancients, and whoever does not share this worship is not a morose and sour ... ...nded, and has never since been taken up.” “Are you sure of what you say?” “Ancient authors, Strabo and others, all mention these 248 The Deputy of Ar... ...lieu. T o her that dear mis- taken one was like the drunken slave whom the Spartans made a living lesson to their children; and between the two friend...

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...ne of those winding canals which intersect each other in the middle of the ancient quarter of Hamburg, and which the great fire of 1842 had fortunatel... ...aking the paper hastily out of my hands. “This begins to look just like an ancient docu- ment: the vowels and the consonants are grouped together in e... ...kled me again with this logomachy, which might vainly have been set before ancient Oedipus. And if I did not obey his call, who could answer for what ... ...s establishment, in which won- ders are gathered together out of which the ancient history of the country might be reconstructed by means of its stone... ... solution of your eternal doubts.” But there was no ghostly shape upon the ancient walls. Indeed, the castle is much younger than the heroic prince of... ...n of Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes claimed to have been found by the Spartans, and of the body of Asterius, ten cu- bits long, of which Pausania...

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...t on our heads, or, better still, chaplets of flowers; then, like the wise ancients, we should be able to tell to a nicety how far we had advanced in ... ... grey-edged un- der the moon: and Night, that clung like a bat beneath its ancient open palms. The bordering sward about the falls shone silvery. In i... ...dingly, both sets of fin- gers filliping, toward Emilia, with one of those ancient glee— suspensions, “Taia—haia—haia—haia,” etc., which were meant fo... ...his money. For the moment, he does— for the moment. What are those fellows—Spartans—women who cut off their breasts—?” Freshfield suggested, “Amazons.... ... almost idiotic. She heard of Italy as of a distant place, known to her in ancient years. Merthyr’s transformation, too, helped some form of illusion ...

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...vil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vant... ...ettle; not theatre-controver- sies, but a world-controversy: there, in the ancient pigtail mode, or with modern Brutus’ heads, do well-frizzed logi- c... ... wished it. Beloved Brothers! Liberty, one might fear, is actually, as the ancient wise men said, of Heaven. On this Earth, where, thinks the enlighte... ...is Lorraine, this region; not so illu- minated as old France: it remembers ancient Feudalisms; nay, within man’s memory, it had a Court and King of it... ...oon with thirty dra- goons, and victoriously cut them out. And so the poor ancient women go their way; to the terror of France and Paris, whose nervou... ... with buff-belts. And yet might we not ask: What Argonauts, what Leonidas’ Spartans had done such a work? Think of their destiny: since that May morni...

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... The sharp scent of oranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage. Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on a... ... again. The bag is full of treasures and of memories: a leather buckle, an ancient band-concert program, scraps of ribbon, lace, satin. In the aisle b... ...lace was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o’ mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lo... ...cott garage was a shed littered with paint- cans, tools, a lawn-mower, and ancient wisps of hay. Above it was a loft which Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock,... ...mbered more sharply the vulgar detail of her husband’s having observed the ancient customs of the land by chewing tobacco. She would have preferred a ... ...’s, a photographer’s “studio,” the lodge- rooms of the Affiliated Order of Spartans and, at the back, the Perrys’ apartment. They received her (their ... ...out of town with the other officers of the Ancient and Affiliated Order of Spartans, to inaugurate a new chapter at Wakamin. Vida had come to the hous...

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... his downrightness, passed with approval his compliments to France and the ancient high reputation of her army, and, seeing that a loophole was left f... ...of us. Gentlemen, to the exact number of the Graces, dressed in drab of an ancient cut, made a pilgrimage to the icy despot, and besought him to give ... ...watching above her were still brave emblems. Would Paris leave signs of an ancient vigour standing to vindicate dignity when her fall came? Nevil thou... ...to have stuck to their posts. Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their 75 George Meredith ... ... XII AN INTERVIEW WITH THE INFAMOUS DR. SHRAPNEL IN THE HIGH STREET of the ancient and famous town and port of Bevisham, Rosamund met the military gov... ...gesting the stocks; his arms hung loose. Full many a hero of the alehouse, anciently amenable to leg- and-foot imprisonment in the grip of the parish,... ...d with a vengeance: all the rest of the country being base members indeed; Spartans—helots. Criticism, now so help- ful to us, would wither to the roo...

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...ctly up the ascent, between houses, some meanly modern, some picturesquely ancient, with stone steps outside to the upper story, but all with far too ... ...Winifred as very like the mouth of a well, and the paper showed patches of ancient damp. One maid was hastily laying the fire, the other shaking out t... ... every- thing proposed to her was distasteful, and her answers were in the ancient surly style. If attempts were made to probe the malady, her reserve... ...n the turf at their feet, living over again the bygone days, laughing over ancient jokes, re- suscitating past scrapes, tracing the lot of old compani... ...g of cause and effect, learnt his for- gotten offence. She reminded him of ancient promises never to aim at human creatures, assured him that Gilbert ... ...lbinia philosophical.’ ‘Y ou make me so on the principle of the Helots and Spartans.’ It was possible to get to Hadminster by half-past seven, and on ...

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...ative land. She now, carried away by the memories of Carthage, sang of the ancient battles against Rome; they applauded. She kindled at the gleaming o... ...foli- age of the columns, or amid the branches of a palm tree. Some of the Ancients were posted on the platform of the towers, and people did not know... ... surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Meanwhile they had sent them ... ...evertheless, since it was his will, choose a husband among the sons of the Ancients, and then your grief will pass away in a man’s arms.” “Why?” asked... ...s. His colleague Gisco, on the other hand, wished them to be paid. But the Ancients detested him owing to his popularity; for they dreaded the risk of... ...back again. Confess it! my herd of swine did more for us than a phalanx of Spartans.” And yielding to the need that he felt of exalting himself and ta... ...s, and Bruttians. The Greeks dug pits with the points of their swords. The Spartans removed their red cloaks and wrapped them round the dead; the Athe... ... In fact four hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans, and Spartans had gained the heights at the beginning, and had remained there in...

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...ar of Athens and Boeotia is a war of liberation; the Athenians gave back the Spartans taken at Sphacteria out of kindness indeed, the only fault of th... ...en, after defeating them in a naval engagement and taking their leaders, the Spartans, at Sphagia, when they might have destroyed them, spared their l... ...ral considerations which equally affect all evidence to the genu- ineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are more likely to have... ...sical author, are also of doubtful credit; while there is no instance of any ancient writing proved to be a forgery, which combines excellence with le... ...writ- ings. Indeed the greater part of the evidence for the genuine- ness of ancient Greek authors may be summed up under two heads only: (1) excellen... ...hich pass under the name of Plato, if we exclude the works re- jected by the ancients themselves and two or three other plausible inventions, can be f...

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... pal design of wisdom; for to comprise it all in one word, says one of the ancients, and to contract all the rules of human life into one, “it is to w... ...dent,” as the motto of our Talebot has it. ’Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chanc... ... discourse; for besides that I easily submit my belief to the authority of ancient opinions, I look upon it indeed as an unmanly and stupid vice, but ... ...vours of the god. There is more time and constancy re- quired than so. The ancients spent whole nights in this exer- cise, and ofttimes added the day ... ... not interrupt his dinner or break his sleep is inexcusable. And there was anciently at Rome, the consular place, as they called it, which was the mos... ...ing the helots, who were their slaves, drunk by force, to the end that the Spartans, seeing them so lost and buried in wine, might ab- hor the excess ... ...ncidents of the very essence of physic. Lycurgus ordered wine for the sick Spartans. Why? because they abominated the drinking it when they were well;...

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...ame veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in ... ... for it is in effect the thing, which figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be with out mystery; nay, and to hav... ...in, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest. See... ...r such a man will transgress for a piece of bread. It is most true, that was anciently spo ken, A place showeth the man. And it showeth some to the b... ... As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing, to see an ancient castle or building, not in decay; or to see a fair timber tree, s... ...s; and business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch. The Spartans and Spaniards have been noted to be of small dis patch; Mi veng... ...e extent of dominion, it may hold for a time, but it will fail suddenly. The Spartans were a nice people in point of natu ralization; whereby, while ...

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.... W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Anc... ...strengthen the bands of soci- ety, seems to have been known to some of the ancients; for Solon made a law, as did some others also, to restrain per- s... ...sfortuue has befallen them. They were 55 Aristotle also to preserve their ancient patrimony, which custom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, m... ...seful in other sciences. Thus the science of physic is extended beyond its ancient bounds; so is the gymnastic, and indeed all other arts and powers; ... ...ay also be affirmed, that experience itself gives a proof of this; for the ancient laws are too simple and barba- rous; which allowed the Greeks to we... ...en while they carried on long wars; it is also affirmed that the number of Spartans was formerly ten thousand; but be that as it will, an equality of ... ...no means calculated to correct this inequality; for being willing that the Spartans should be as numerous as [1270b] possible, to make them desirous o... ... most extensive wars, and the subsidies were very badly raised; for as the Spartans pos- sessed a large extent of country, they were not exact upon ea... ...n, who, in the reign of Agesilaus, was chief in a con- spiracy against the Spartans: and also when some are too poor and others too rich, which will m...

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... “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The ancients could not endure that a “poet should build an house, but this varl... ...With spurning heels, and with a butting head: To White’s be carried, as to ancient games, Fair coursers, vases, and alluring dames. ... ... in length of wishes lost. The hero then resolves his course to bend Where ancient Danaus’ fruitful fields extend; And famed Mycene’s lofty towers asc... ...ls a deluge on; The foaming Lerna swells above its bounds, And spreads its ancient poisons o’er the grounds: Where late was dust, now rapid torrents p... ...solemn feasts propitious Phoebus please; These honours, still renew’d, his ancient wrath appease. ‘But say, illustrious guest, (adjoin’d the king) ... ...c kind. They say it was invented about the time of Alexander, and that the Spartans forbad the use of it, as languid and effeminate.—W. 387 ‘Wake the...

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.................. 307 CHAPTER II OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE................... ...of Hercules, that is, to sail out of the straits of Gibraltar, was, in the ancient world, long considered as a most wonderful and dangerous exploit of... ...erhaps, than both of them put together. It is remarkable, that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign com... ... which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T artary and Siberia, seem, in all ages of the ... ...ons for this purpose. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Romans, and gold and silver amon... ...this purpose. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Romans, and gold and silver among all ri... ...importation, it would not be able to effectuate it. Those metals, when the Spartans had got wherewithal to pur- chase them, broke through all the barr...

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...nted a general?’ Ion replies that he is a for eigner, and the Athenians and Spartans will not appoint a foreigner to be their general. ‘No, that is n... ...he knowledge of poetry or of any other art as a whole. In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original sophis...

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...uggling up through smoke and thousand fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunti... ...cessary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would ... ...king by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to gi... ...begs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indi cates, are the more ancient), Hussar cloaks, Vandyke tippets, ruffs, fardingales, are brought... ...oitered in the sunny glades of the forest, living on wild fruits; or, as the ancient Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial... ...ce, imparted to all?” Quite in an opposite strain is the following: “The old Spartans had a wiser method; and went out and hunted down their Helots, a...

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... average morality, was seldom done without some twinges of conscience. The ancient republics, being mostly grounded from the first upon some kind of m... ...pendence of women seemed rather less unnatural to the Greeks than to other ancients, on account of the fabulous Amazons (whom they believed to be hist... ...ers. It is a political law of nature that those who are under any power of ancient origin, never begin by com plaining of the power itself, but only ... ...a determined resolution to take monastic vows. After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and dea... ... tian love of freedom, but, what the love of freedom generally was in the ancients and in the middle ages— an intense feeling of the dignity and impo... ...nt: but the stern character of their national discipline, like that of the Spartans, made them an example of the op posite type of national character...

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...ass in terests, and its feelings of class superiority. The morality between Spartans and Helots, between planters and negroes, between princes and su... ... people to conform to its notions of personal, as of social excellence. The ancient commonwealths thought themselves entitled to practise, and the an... ...ntemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual think ... ...side of indulgence: while his writ ings, the highest ethical product of the ancient mind, differ scarcely perceptibly , if they differ at all, from t... ...y overrating the amount of unlikeness between the men of modern and those of ancient times, indulged the belief that the whole of the dif ference was... ...priate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentia...

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...t, it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11-36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ...ey, and withdraw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity it- self, and is verily marked ... ... activity that sometimes verged towards madness, yet did not reach it. One ancient Riquetti, in mad fulfilment of a mad vow, chains two Mountains toge... ...elp to regenerate France. There are so many of them young. Till thirty the Spartans did not suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under thirty;... ...sar’s. See Bailly, likewise of Paris, time-honoured Historian of Astronomy Ancient and Modern. Poor Bailly, how thy se- renely beautiful Philosophisin...

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...m the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passe... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...mmer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds. The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue. Who can analyze the nameles... ...never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied ...

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...ut on my noble court dress, and thus becomingly re-clothed I pass into the ancient courts of the men of old, where, being lovingly received by them, I... ...ance. Now I say that those dominions which, when acquired, are added to an ancient state by him who acquires them, are either of the same country and ... ...es them as he chooses. But the King of France is placed in the midst of an ancient body of lords, acknowledged by their own subjects, and beloved by t... ...ans of its own citizens than in any other way. There are, for example, the Spartans and the Romans. The Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing ... ...is- mantled them, and did not lose them. They wished to hold Greece as the Spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succe... ...yed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privi- leges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits w... ...d speaking of the first method, it will be illustrated by two examples—one ancient, the other modern—and with- out entering further into the subject, ... ...friendly, otherwise he has no security in adversity. Nabis,* Prince of the Spartans, sustained the attack of all Greece, and of a victorious Roman arm...

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..., it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ..., and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity itself, and is verily marked in... ...p to regener- ate France. There are so many of them young. Till thirty the Spartans did not suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under thirty;... ...r’s. See Bailly, likewise of Paris, time-honoured Historian of As- tronomy Ancient and Modern. Poor Bailly, how thy serenely beautiful Philosophising,... ...ceable fighting-gear small stock! Two silver-mounted cannons there are; an ancient gift from his Majesty of Siam to Louis Fourteenth: gilt sword of th... ...who mercilessly cuts down cher- ished illusions; and of the finest antique Spartans, will make mere modern cutthroat Mainots. (De Pauw, Recherches sur... ... with buff-belts. And yet might we not ask: What Argonauts, what Leonidas’ Spartans had done such a work? Think of their destiny: since that May morni...