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...a -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Vo...

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...of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands... ...a -- Attacked by native slingers -- Visit from a sorceress -- Beautiful island women -- Why a canal was not cut through the Isthmus -- Further discove... ...ttle -- Horrible butcheries -- Da Gama encloses his helpless prisoners of men, women and children in the ship and sets fire to it -- A scene unparalle... ...an cruelties to prisoners -- Escape of a large treasure ship -- Priests, nuns, women and children held for ransom -- Morgan falls in love with a fair ... ...e natives induces Drake to erect a fort -- Orgies of idol and demon worship -- Women tear their flesh and dash themselves to the ground -- A bloody an... ...rmaids of the African coast..................................... 42 Meeting of Carthaginians and Norsemen.................................... 46 Norse... ...en Sabea, or Sheba. Aristotle tells us that in the year 590 before Christ, the Carthaginians sent out a fleet of several vessels, which sailed westwar... ...AS. Himilco, or Hamilcar, and Hanno his brother, 443 years before Christ, both Carthaginian generals, but at the time residing in a portion of Spain n... ...the fleet of Hamilcar, and to discover, if possible, the source from which the Carthaginians secured their great stores of tin and amber, which Hamilc...

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...g the meanes to warre after the maner of Julius Cæsar XXXV. Of Three Good Women XXXVI. Of the Worthiest and Most Excellent Men XXXVII. Of the Resembl... ...ppeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prostrating themselves t... ...se, and meeknesse: whence it proceedetrh, that the weakest natures, as of women, children, and the vulgar sort are more subject unto it. But (having ... ...re none were spared but the unarmed and naked, the aged and unpotent, the women and children; that so from amongst them, they might get thirtie thou... ...r enemies, which with such furie it rowted and slew a great number of the Carthaginians: purchasing a reproachfull and disgraceful flight, at the sa... ...ttle booke of unheard of wonders be his) where he reporteth that cortaine Carthaginians having sailed athwart the Atlantike Sea, without the strait ... ... The Romanes suffered a great disadvantage in the fight they had with the Carthaginians neere unto Placentia, for so much as they went to their charg... ...s Armie in Affrike, in the middest of his glorie and victorie against the Carthaginians, writ unto the common-wealth, that a hyne or plough-boy, who... ... with health. Notwithstanding, these restrictions, partly borrowed of the Carthaginians, please him well. Let those forbeare it that are going about...

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...ng, sitting at the base of an oak, wearing a stained robe, his voice low. Women carried hampers of grapes loaded with purple clusters, the women’s s... ...rum. Such clamoring! But was it joyous news, I asked myself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Ha... ...heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the newly returned; some were excited, some were beau... ...achache. An orphan, she gets homesick for the home she never had. Prefers women to men. Tells amusing jokes and stories. Loves laughter. Mimics. Is ... ...saw Anaktoria, Libus, Gorgo, Nano, old friends, fishermen, villagers. Old women went about hawking oranges. Old men drank and talked. In the aftern... ...rd, fragrant and carefully oiled. I found him cheerful. He talked about a Carthaginian ship, in harbor because of broken oars, after sideswiping ano...

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...ng, sitting at the base of an oak, wearing a stained robe, his voice low. Women carried hampers of grapes loaded with purple clusters, the women’s s... ...rum. Such clamoring! But was it joyous news, I asked myself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Ha... ...heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the newly returned; some were excited, some were beau... ...achache. An orphan, she gets homesick for the home she never had. Prefers women to men. Tells amusing jokes and stories. Loves laughter. Mimics. Is ... ...saw Anaktoria, Libus, Gorgo, Nano, old friends, fishermen, villagers. Old women went about hawking oranges. Old men drank and talked. In the aftern... ...rd, fragrant and carefully oiled. I found him cheerful. He talked about a Carthaginian ship, in harbor because of broken oars, after sideswiping ano...

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...nd walking: males sat around the fire, and around council centers. Girls and women were forbidden to assume a sitting posture. Woman had to get on... ...s were rapists or whoremongers. 80% of all the men in Napoleon’s armies raped women and frequented prostitutes so often… they had sexual intercourse... ...oldiers had sexual intercourse with diseased prostitutes and whores and raped women and children when they pillaged the villages they plundered. Eve... ...went: they spread a host of sexual diseases. Everywhere they went: they raped women and children. Instead of liberators and a culture of social equ... ...d-famous Gold Medal Winner… because her nipples stuck out more than the other women. What does that have to do with human life? What does that have... ...itary industrial complex of the American Government. What happened to the Carthaginians? They became so corrupt and lazy; they stopped fighting ... ...rd. Because he knew he did not stand a chance against the naval might of the Carthaginian Naval war machine. He had to make very polite, and respe...

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...nd the other made Athens be inhabited. Both stand charged with the rape of women; neither of them could avoid domestic misfortunes nor jealousy at hom... ...e combat, Minos readily complied. And as it was a custom in Crete that the women also should be admitted to the sight of these games, Ariadne, being p... ..., when, on a sudden, a violent wind carried him again out to sea. That the women of the island received Ariadne very kindly, and did all they could to... ...e they happened to return in autumn, the time of gathering the grapes. The women whom they call Deipnopherae, or sup- per-carriers, are taken into the... ...was very happy in his marriage. But Sextius Sylla the 47 Plutarch’s Lives Carthaginian, a man wanting neither learning nor ingenu- ity, told me Romul... ... for in it Alexander over- came Darius’s generals on the Granicus; and the Carthaginians, on the twenty-fourth, were beaten by Timoleon in Sicily, on ... ...ent with Archidamus into Italy were there cut off by the barbar- ians. The Carthaginians also observe the twenty-first of the same month, as bringing ... ...asily understood, though many were alarmed by them; but in regard that the Carthaginians were but few, and in want of money and supplies, he deemed it... ...cs, and saw, unless he could by art or force bring him to battle, that the Carthaginians, unable to use the arms in which they were superior, and suff...

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...ompelled us to stop short of recording those noble deeds by which delicate women and light-hearted young soldiers showed, that in the hour of need the... ...ating to enable him to make his peace with Heaven. T ender pity made these women venture all things; and surely their doings were full of the gold of ... ...d not succeed until after his sufferings had ended in death. While men and women still exist who will thus suffer and thus die, losing themselves in t... ... is true, but it was one that went deep into the hearts of Grecian men and women, and encouraged them in some of their best feelings; and assuredly th... ... very form of adoration was cruel and unclean, as among the Canaanites and Carthaginians, there we find no true self- devotion. The great deeds of the... ...m to continually higher situations, and at length, in a great war with the Carthaginians, who had many settlements in Sicily, he became general of the... ... made the city much more rich and powerful, he de- 49 Yo n g e feated the Carthaginians, and rendered Syracuse by far the chief city in the island, a... ... wars that the Romans engaged in beyond the bounds of Italy, were with the Carthaginians. This race came from Tyre and Zidon; and were descended from ... ...n had lasted eight years when it was resolved to send an army to fight the Carthaginians on their own shores. The army and fleet were placed under the...

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...r for me Is this beneath my nose; How shall I tell, unless I smell The Carthaginian rose? The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or r... ... her torn black hair; (“Little dirty Latin child, let the lady by!”) The women squatting on the stoops were slovenly and fat, (Lay me out in organ... ...s kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, tha...

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...the other by his lovers; that of two famous Scipios, the one overthrew the Carthaginians in war, the other totally ruined and destroyed them; the city... ...wns and trophies of gold to present to him, and companies of young men and women danced before him, and sang to him songs of joy and triumph. By all w... ...d a price of him, namely, one hundred tal- ents of silver, and one hundred women. Agesilaus in scorn asked, Why they were not ready to receive them? H... ... contrary, the fathers of the survivors hid them- selves at home among the women. If necessity drove any of them abroad, they went very dejectedly, wi... ...went very dejectedly, with downcast looks, and sorrowful countenances. The women outdid the men in it; those whose sons were slain, openly rejoicing, ... ... field was full of gold and silver, which had been hid there of old by the Carthaginians in the time of their calamities, and thereupon fell to work, ... ... but consuls and praetors, and therefore Scipio the elder, who subdued the Carthaginians in Spain in far greater and no- bler conflicts, never petitio... ...they dreaded to be shut up with the Uticans, men of traitorous temper, and Carthaginian blood; for though they were quiet at present, yet as soon as C... ...roposal he made to avert the imminent danger they feared of a war with the Carthaginians, undertaking, if Dionysius wanted peace, to sail immediately ...

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...ently find, what it is impossible to find now, a number of devoted men and women ready to give their whole lives, with a quasi-religious enthusiasm, t... ... now probably from six to ten million people in the British Isles, men and women, either engaged directly in warfare or in the manufacture of munition... ...l probably never know, any more than we shall know the tale of the men and women and children who suffered and died because of their inability to pay,... ...s and forms of the pre-war era as it would be 61 H G Wells to restore the Carthaginian Empire. There is a new economic Great Britain to-day, emergenc... ...ily ear or the ear of a supposititious child—a question that any three old women might be trusted to settle. After that he rests for a fortnight and r... ...ng men, for example, have abandoned scores of protective restrictions upon women’s labour, upon unskilled labour, for which they have fought for gener...

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... The Phoenicians, and espe cially the Tyrians, had great fleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony, which is yet farther west. Toward the east th... ...e male; who perform unto him all service of the table upon the knee, and the women only stand about him, leaning against the wall. The room below his ... ...l after so familiar knowledge; but because of many hidden defects in men and women’s bodies, they have a more civil way; for they have near every town... ... men do not fail; besides a great number of servants and attendants, men and women. And this we do also: we have consultations, which of the invention...

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...igh To have conceiv’d of God, or that salute Hale highly favour’d, among women blest; While I to sorrows am no less advanc’t, And fears as emi... ...rows am no less advanc’t, And fears as eminent, above the lot 70 Of other women, by the birth I bore, In such a season born when scarce a Shed ... ...est, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus, and thus advis’d. Set women in his eye and in his walk, Among daughters of men the fairest fo... ...will the manliest, resolutest brest, As the Magnetic hardest Iron draws. Women, when nothing else, beguil’d the heart Of wisest Solomon, and ma... ... not beyond Higher design then to enjoy his State; Thence to the bait of Women lay expos’d; But he whom we attempt is wiser far 205 Then Solom... ...hrone of Cyrus held At his dispose, young Scipio had brought down The Carthaginian pride, young Pompey quell’d 35 The Pontic King and in tri...

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... little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the very same head-clothes, and ye... ...he houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal too big for the chambers they inhabited; the ... ... us. Boom! the gun fired at the end of the funny little entertainment. The women and the balconies, the beggars and the walking Murillos, Pooch and th... ...- antry, with handsome red-sashed gallegos clad in brown, and ill-favoured women, came and got their permits, and were off, as we lay bumping up again... ...; the churches, however, stood open for the faithful, and we met scores of women tripping towards them with pretty feet, and smart black mantillas, fr... ...days to stay, and I will come back as honestly as Regulus Pasha did to the Carthaginians,—I will come back and make my face white before your Highness...

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...romiscuous conversing; whence Euripides affirms in Andromache, that their women were all unchaste. Thus much may give us light after what sort of b... ...ey met with no inter- dict that can be cited, till about the year 400, in a Carthaginian Council, wherein bishops themselves were forbid to read the...

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...ed for such an occurrence, and a desper ate skirmish succeeded. Some of the women screamed, but none of them fainted; for fainting was not so much th... ...l mets, the twanging of bow strings, the whizzing of arrows, the screams of women, the shouts of the warriors, and the vociferations of the peasantry... ...one evening into a beautiful sylvan valley, where he found a number of young women weaving garlands of flowers, and singing over their pleasant occupa... ...ay obtain hospital ity for the night?” “Hospitality!” said one of the young women; “you have not far to seek for that. Do you not know that you are i... ...Gamwell Hall before.” “Never heard of Gamwell Hall?” exclaimed all the young women together, who could as soon have dreamed of his never having heard ... ...ti catholic? Why anti catholic? Because anti roman. Why anti roman? Because Carthaginian. Is not pun from Punic? punica fides: the very quint essenti...

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...n where the best accommodation was to be had. He pronounced the Florentine women the finest in the world, but had not an equally good opinion of the f... ...other, my sister, whom I regard as one of the best and most intelligent of women, and by whom I beg of 31 Montaigne thee to let thy own life be regul... ...ke the plague, the foolish fa- miliarities thou seest between some men and women; harm- less enough at first, but which by insidious degrees corrupt t... ...l. I do not think necessary to warn you against vice, a thing so odious in women, for I would not even suppose that you could harbour any inclination ... ...ng. But when he had done, he directed us all to leave the room, except the women attendants, whom he styled his garrison. But first, calling to him my... ...charged through and through, and routed with a very great slaughter of the Carthaginians, thus purchasing an ignominious flight at the same price they... ...ations brought out under his name— D.W .]. He there tells us, that certain Carthaginians, having crossed the Atlantic Sea without the Straits of Gibra... ...s fought at a very great disadvantage, in the engagement they had with the Carthaginians near Piacenza, by reason that they went to the charge with th... ...oman army in Africa, in the height of all his glory and victories over the Carthaginians, wrote to the Republic to acquaint them that a certain hind h...

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...sin, as in thefts, but in the very exercise of sin, or in the enjoyment of women, where the temptation is violent, and, ’tis said, sometimes not to be... ...hould always speak in a magisterial tone to their servants, whether men or women, without being sometimes facetious and familiar; for besides the reas... ...what such souls produce. The conversation also of beautiful and honourable women is for me a sweet commerce: “Nam nos quoque oculos eruditos h... ...lf well worthy to be beloved, and who does not prefer herself before other women, either for her youth, the colour of her hair, or her graceful motion... ...uth, the colour of her hair, or her graceful motion (for there are no more women universally ugly, than there are women universally beautiful, and suc... ... is justly received, “That we are not to judge of counsels by events.” The Carthaginians punished the ill coun- sels of their captains, though they we...

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...oseph Conrad in the abundant but thin flow of a wilful invalid’s talk. The women looked worried, but sat still, and I learned more of him in that inte... ...he carved emblem of her name, as in a gallery of plaster-casts, figures of women with mural crowns, women with flowing robes, with gold fillets on the... ...le company of queens and princesses, of kings and warriors, of allegorical women, of hero- ines and statesmen and heathen gods, crowned, hel- meted, b... ...bouring on its isles the fury of strange monsters and the wiles of strange women; the highway of he- roes and sages, of warriors, pirates, and saints;... ..., of warriors, pirates, and saints; the 131 Joseph Conrad workaday sea of Carthaginian merchants and the pleasure lake of the Roman Caesars, claims t... ... in the arts of the wily Greek, the deceiver of gods, the lover of strange women, the evoker of bloodthirsty shades, I yet longed for the beginning of...

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...Medici nothing of the probability, amounting almost to certainty, that the Carthaginian fleet was moored in the Gulf of Spezzia or the roadstead of Ge... ...y. His first intention was to write a picturesque history of France. Three women—Isabella of Bavaria, Catharine and Marie dé Medici—hold an enormous ... ...part of Catherine’s household, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw w... ...d of the house of Brosse made her one of the most powerful and best titled women in France. Catherine’s aunt the Duchess of Albany, the Queen of Navar... ... the Duchesse de Vendome, Madame la Connetable de Mont- morency, and other women of like importance, eclipsed by birth and by their rights, as well as... ... with excessive rigor. Catherine beheld on the one hand the court, and the women of the court, playing with the fire of heresy, and on the other, Dian...

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...ere a priori one, viz., that I had always been tied to the apron string of women or girls; which amounted at most to this—that, by training and the na... ...the second stage of the case, I was delivered over to the custody of young women and girls; whereas the ordinary course would have thrown me upon the ... ...ancy,) naturally I had learned to appreci- ate the indulgent tenderness of women; and my heart thrilled with love and gratitude, as often as they took... ...en as every where else; but, unfortunately, my introduction to these young women was in the very worst of characters. I had been taken in arms—in arms... ...but I (seeing no military reason against it) kissed them. Really, if young women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 ... ...ilfully applied put an end to wars that else threat- ened to extend into a Carthaginian length. In one week’s time “Hi motus animorum atque haec certa...

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... madness of thy own children had wrought in every age heavier woe than the Carthaginian thundering at thy gates, or the Gaul admitted within thy walls... ...hey are even ladies paramount, and in situations of command, they are also women. The staff of authority does not annihilate their sex; and scruples o... ... always been in force. But in the age succeeding to the civil wars men and women “married,” says one author, “with a view to divorce, and divorced in ... ...uent contemplation of these authorized mur- ders, in which a whole people, women* as much as men, and children intermingled with both, looked on with ... ...ly upon the two pillars of moral- *Augustus, indeed, strove to exclude the women from one part of the circension spectacles; and what was that? Simply... ... only the sanctities of the human heart, and the whole sexual character of women. It is our opinion, that to the brutalizing effect of these exhibitio...

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...ought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, ... ...r advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. 12 And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lo... ...n without the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said: 12 O Lord, the God of my... ...t: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses. 36 And Sara, my master’s wife, hath borne... ...nother. 38 Book of Genesis 13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. 14 And Ruben goi... ... their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty. 12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kind...

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...ed Philip, well pleased. ‘I made her read me the part of Dombey that hurts women’s feelings most, just to see if she would go on—the part about little... ...and horse-chestnuts that shaded the lawn. A long rank of haymakers—men and women—pro- ceeded with their rakes, the white shirt-sleeves, straw bonnets,... ...guard your self-possession.’ ‘It is very foolish,’ she murmured. ‘Ordinary women say so, and rest contented with the folly. You can do better things.’... ...leasing to her. However, Eveleen was just the girl to like men better than women, and never to be so happy as when on the verge of flirting; it would ... ...e lodging-house, filled with the worst description of inmates. Quite young women, too, and with no mother or elder person to direct them; but it is th... ...petticoat over my head instead of a bonnet, in what he calls the classical Carthaginian Celto-Hibernian fashion.’ ‘Dear me,’ said Charlotte, ‘no wonde...

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... happen. In a moment afterwards he determined that it could, but that such women were constantly observed, and had no opportunity given them for the a... ...Roman General, flushed with a recent victory over the Iceni, or laden with Carthaginian spoil, ad- vancing within a few hours’ march of the Capitol, p... ...aul couldn’t understand what that had to do with it, nor why the two young women looked on so seriously, nor why Florence turned away her face for a m... ...And now, among the knot of servants dressed in mourn- ing, and the weeping women, Mr Dombey passes through the hall to the other carriage that is wait... ...sition of the extent to which he had been beloved and doted on by splendid women and brilliant creatures. On the next day but one, Mr Dombey and the M... ...e the conscious self-abase- ment, and the burning indignation of a hundred women, strong in passion and in pride; and there it hid itself with two whi...

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... happen. In a moment afterwards he determined that it could, but that such women were constantly observed, and had no opportunity given them for the a... ...Roman General, flushed with a recent victory over the Iceni, or laden with Carthaginian spoil, ad- vancing within a few hours’ march of the Capitol, p... ...aul couldn’t understand what that had to do with it, nor why the two young women looked on so seriously, nor why Florence turned away her face for a m... ...And now, among the knot of servants dressed in mourn- ing, and the weeping women, Mr Dombey passes through the hall to the other carriage that is wait... ...sition of the extent to which he had been beloved and doted on by splendid women and brilliant creatures. On the next day but one, Mr Dombey and the M... ...e the conscious self-abase- ment, and the burning indignation of a hundred women, strong in passion and in pride; and there it hid itself with two whi...

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...wers painted on their bodies with the juice of herbs, and a few Lydians in women’s robes, dining in slippers and earrings. Others were ostentatiously ... ...those plump little dogs with pink silky hair and fattened on olive lees,—a Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations. Surprise at the n... ...en off their cuirasses, were leaping with a heavy step. Some advanced like women, mak- ing obscene gestures; others stripped naked to fight amid the c... ...n he let fall the cup and related his history. He was called Spendius. The Carthaginians had taken him in the battle of Aeginusae, and he thanked the ... ...g amid the broken cups. They demanded wine, meat, gold. They cried out for women. They raved in a hundred languages. Some thought that they were at th... ...ead leaves like a silver brook, into the forest, and came to a plain where women with dragon-croups were round a great fire, standing erect on the poi... ...pon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdle... .... The terraces, fortifications, and walls were hidden beneath the crowd of Carthaginians, who were dressed in garments of black. The sailors’ tunics s... ...e a fancy to stay . But they were leaving with so much good faith that the Carthaginians grew bold and mingled with the soldiers. They overwhelmed the...

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... and which Socrates endeavoured to establish by his regulations concerning women and children: for we think that friendship is the greatest good which... ...ave arms, and join with the others in war, or not. He thinks also that the women ought to go to war, and have the same education as the soldiers; as t... ...their common tables are to be the same, excepting that in that he says the women should have com- mon tables, and that there should be a thousand men-... ...t, to support five thousand idle persons, besides a much greater number of women and servants. Ev- ery one, it is true, may frame an hypothesis as he ... ...; and in- deed these three states, the Cretans, the Lacedaemonians and the Carthaginians are in some things very like each other, in others they diffe... ...ice, on the one hand, or degenerating into a tyranny on the other. Now the Carthaginians have these things in common with the Lacedaemonians: public t... ...amongst the Lacedaemonians, all the citizens are eligible, but amongst the Carthaginians, they are chosen out of those of the better sort: there is al... ...logy between the king and the senate in both these governments, though the Carthaginian method of appointing their kings is best, for they do not conf... ... governments which we have described. Now of those principles on which the Carthaginians have established their mixed form of government, composed of ...

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...kinds of excesses, consuming their time and money in idleness, gaming, and women; their chief aim was to appear well dressed and to speak with wit and... ...e Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that ... ...y assent, he came to an under- standing for this purpose with Amilcar, the Carthaginian, who, with his army, was fighting in Sicily. One morning he as... ... city without any civil commotion. And although he was twice routed by the Carthaginians, and ultimately besieged, yet not only was he able to defend ... ... The *Agathocles the Sicilian, born 361 B.C., died 289 B.C. 40 The Prince Carthaginians, reduced to extreme necessity, were com- pelled to come to te... ...y armed and quite free. Of ancient mercenaries, for example, there are the Carthaginians, who were oppressed by their mercenary soldiers after the fir... ...their mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, although the Carthaginians had their own citizens for captains. *“With chalk in hand,” “... ... he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects and from their women. But when it is necessary for him to proceed against the life of some... ... as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must ab- stain. And when neith...

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...hens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefig- ured by the Troj... ...dicated by the ancient Athenians is an evidence to other ages that men and women had in those days, as they ought always to have, common virtues and p... ...ome traces. They were careful to pre- serve the number of fighting men and women at 20,000, which is equal to that of the present military force. And ... ...baths both of the kings and of private individuals, and separate baths for women, and also for cattle. The water from the baths was carried to the gro... ...d statue of Athena in- 9 Plato dicated the common warrior life of men and women: (6) the particularity with which the third deluge before that of Deu... ... the Republic; and that though he speaks of the common pursuits of men and women, he says nothing of the com- munity of wives and children. It is sing...

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...r the lucky searcher. Moreover, as in this law treatise Tiraqueau attacked women in a merciless fashion, President Amaury Bouchard published in 1522 a... ...eenth century. Queen Anne was, without any doubt, one of the most virtuous women in the world. Yet she used to go up the staircase of her chateau at B... ...lly and actively hurtful; and of that it is impossible to accuse Rabelais. Women in particular quickly revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once... ... him, is Panurge exactly, and quite as much given to practical joking. The women in the senile amour of the old Tognazzo, the judges, and the poor ser... ...terlined. V. And thus he rails at drinking all before ‘em, And for lewd women does be-whore ‘em, And brings their painted faces and black patches t... ...part always surmounts the better, as saith Titus Livius in speaking of the Carthaginians. But the foresaid Du Douhet held the contrary opinion, main- ... ...e, This warrior shall the dangerous storm assuage: With victories he the Carthaginian mauls, And with strong hand shall crush the rebel Gauls. Like... ...ntent. Indeed, Livius Andronicus and Terence, the one a Greek, the other a Carthaginian, wrote success- fully in Latin, and the latter is perhaps the ...

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...came to find my son, and I lose my own life.’ So too in the Phineidae: the women, on seeing the place, inferred their fate:—’Here we are doomed to die... ...the events may be. For as the sea-fight at Salamis and the battle with the Carthaginians in Sicily took place at the same time, but did not tend to an... ...lso in others of our own day, who are cen- sured for representing degraded women. Again, T ragedy like Epic poetry produces its effect even without ac...

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...ngerous exploit of navigation. It was late before even the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the most skilful navigators and 24 The Wealth of Nations sh... ... and is generally exhausted by two or three. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. Luxury, in ... ...e men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. The women return to their parents, and commonly spin, in order to make clothes ... ... The chairmen, porters, and coal- heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful wo... ...arily accompany the progress of agriculture, and which are the work of the women and children in every private family. The greater part, both of the e... ...ber of warriors supposed necessary for its defence), to- gether with their women and servants, would require, he says, a territory of boundless extent... ...m the same cause. From the end of the first to the beginning of the second Carthaginian war, the armies of Carthage were continually in the field, and... ...ate of the two rival republics. 575 Adam Smith From the end of the second Carthaginian war till the fall of the Roman republic, the armies of Rome we... ...ost formidable enemies whom the Ro- mans had to encounter after the second Carthaginian war. The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respec...

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.............................................. 261 CHAPTER XXXV OF THREE GOOD WOMEN ........................................................................ ...would tell of strange confidences, and some of them his own, with virtuous women, free from any manner of suspicion of ill, and for his own part solem... ...y with health. Nevertheless, these restrictions, in part borrowed from the Carthaginians, please him: that men forbear excesses in the expeditions of ... ...deliver- ing his family and himself from slavery and dishonour. The Jewish women, after having circumcised their children, threw them and themselves d... ...nd then causing a great pile to be set on fire, and the throats of all the women, children, concubines, and ser- vants to be cut, he threw their bodie... ...d furniture in the public place; and, having ranged upon this heap all the women and children, and piled them round with wood and other combustible ma... ...“let us go render thanks to the gods for the victory they gave me over the Carthaginians as this day,” and advancing himself before towards the Temple... ... overcome those who were better than himself,” which he interpreted of the Carthaginians, who surpassed him in power; and having war with them, often ...

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...ns, should have failed so conspicuously; for possibly the mothers had been women of excessive and even exem- plary stupidity. In the case of Shakspear... ...ish and the Gothic races in general; since, under the immunity which their women enjoy from all servile labors of a coarse or out-of- doors order, by ... ... class, however noble in appearance, is somewhat de- graded in the eyes of women, by the necessity which his in- digence imposes of working under a ma... ...unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women’s are. VIOLA. I think it well, my lord. DUKE. Then let thy love b... ...r than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent; For women are as roses, whose fair flower, Being once display’d, doth f... ...rn away, and his uncurtained eye-balls exposed to the noon-tide glare of a Carthaginian sun, could have shrieked with more anguish of recoil from tort...

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... promiscuous conversing; whence Euripides affirms in Andromache, that their women were all unchaste. Thus much may give us light after what sort of b... ... they met with no interdict that can be cited, till about the year 400, in a Carthaginian Council, wherein bish ops themselves were forbid to read th... ...onsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild beasts, but otherwise like men and women, their apparel glistering. They come in making a riotous and unruly...

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...is mostly a view of the civilised society in which he lives. Other men and women are so much more grossly and so much more intimately pal- pable to hi... ...uired and means were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of 45 Lay Morals which he died should be attributed... ...ut dirty Damien washed it. Damien was not a pure man in his relations with women, etc. How do you know that? Is this the nature of the conversa- tion ... ...e others in his one little branch– in the classification of toadstools, or Carthaginian history– he waxes great in his own eyes and looks down on othe... ...d peer through the gratings into the shadow of vaults. Just then I saw two women coming down a path, one of 136 Robert Louis Stevenson them old, and ... ... the covering were the tears of those who laid it where it was. As the two women came up to it, one of them kneeled down on the wet grass and looked l...

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...myself are yours. And would to Heav’n, the Storm, you felt, would bring On Carthaginian coasts your wand’ring king. My people shall, by my command, ex... ..., between. The house is fill’d with loud laments and cries, And shrieks of women rend the vaulted skies; The fearful matrons run from place to place, ... ...ouse it ran: The groans of men, with shrieks, laments, and cries Of mixing women, mount the vaulted skies. Not less the clamor, than if—ancient T yre,... ...to sportful arms he led. By this, Aeneas and his train appear; And now the women, seiz’d with shame and fear, Dispers’d, to woods and caverns take the... ...All, without delay, The will of Jove, and his desires obey. They list with women each degenerate name, Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Thes... ... shores resound, Of parting friends in close embraces bound. The trembling women, the degenerate train, Who shunn’d the frightful dangers of the main,...

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... frantic behavior of a man with a musket. He had fired it among a crowd of women and children. It proved, however, to have been without ball, and the ... ...illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women. His possessions had been always ample; but on the attainment of his ... ...n memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals. Y et in fact—in the fact of the world’s view—how littl... ... stately court, and the mad clangor of arms, and the radiant loveliness of women, bewil- dered and intoxicated my brain. But as yet my soul had proved...