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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ... Sardinia and Corsica were Joined by a considerable strip of land, as was also Sicily with Italy, and Negro Ponto with Greece; and accounts have been ... ...gress, and they moved westward, making themselves masters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards embraced Christianity, and l... ...as provided with colonnades, marble stairs and hanging gardens. Hiero, king of Syracuse (307 B.C.), was also a distinguished patron of ship-building. ...

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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage...

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...hood and School time OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats again... ...ives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city’s walls set free, A prison where h... ...least To drink wild water, and to pluck green herbs, And gather fruits fresh from their native bough. Nay more, if I may trust myself, this hour Hath ... ...l over his dear county, left the deeds Of Wallace like a family of ghosts To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...r, sedulous as I have been to trace 575 How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand, Book First Introduction: ... ...reeds. I read, without design, the opinions, thoughts, Of those plain living people, in a sense Of love and knowledge: with another eye 205 I saw the ... ...allen 955 Of all the race of men, dost make abode Where Etna looketh down on Syracuse, The city of Timoleon. Living God, How are the mighty prostrated... ...herds reared, Even from my earliest schoolday time, I loved 1015 To dream of Sicily; and now a sweet And gladsome promise wafted from that land Comes ...

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...ndon; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four mil...

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...ed severity of logic. A million and a half of souls—that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for s... ...classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four million... ... purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who defl... ...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ...re met him from the neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of the... ...o deal vigor- ously with the public enemies.* The very granaries of Rome, Sicily and Egypt, were the seats of continued distractions; in Alexandria, ... ...he Hellespont, landed on the coasts of Asia Minor and of Greece, plundered Syracuse, steered for the Straits of Gibraltar, sailed along the shores of ... ... and most quiet part of Spain (Hispania Bætica), with the large islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Crete, and some districts of Greece; in Asia...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th... ...m,” replied Dantes, in bad Italian, “a Maltese sailor. We were coming from Syracuse laden with grain. The storm of last night over- took us at Cape Mo... ... won victory at a single thrust. “Bah!” said he, “I have travelled through Sicily and Calabria — I have sailed two months in the Archipelago, and yet ... ...These baskets contained four pyra- mids of most splendid fruit; there were Sicily pine-apples, pome- granates from Malaga, oranges from the Balearic I...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...who beheld his misfortune, must at the same time recognize his merits. The people also paid him the respect he deserved, and when he came into the the... ...success. The government of Sicily being allotted to him, he passed over to Syracuse; where understanding that Asinius Pollio was arrived at Messena, w... ...nce from him; and he also mentions Ctesibius, as reporting from Callias of Syracuse and some others, that Demosthenes secretly obtained a knowledge of... ...ative of Sicily, and daughter of Hipparinus, a man of the first quality in Syracuse, and colleague with Dionysius when he was first chosen general wit...

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...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...nd of uncer- 6 V olume One tain parentage, had the repute of being sprung from the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them... ...Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7 Plutarch’s Lives of the oracle, prevailed upon him, i... ...cy, and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal his journey from every one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ...they thought, all eq- uity and humanity, though naturally lauded by common people, either out of want of courage to commit injuries or fear to receive... ...ed into Sicily, and desired in marriage the daugh- ter of Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, promising to bring the Greeks under his power; and, on Hiero refu... ...the people from the expedition, by representing to them that the taking of Syracuse would be a work of great difficulty; but Alcibiades dreamed of not... ... great part bought up in Italy, but an equal amount sent as a present from Syracuse, from Gelo, then reigning there. Many began now to hope well of th...

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...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ...evented their aggrandisement in those parts. He returned answer, “that the people of Rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open way... ...ful that they should nei- ther be deceived in me nor deceive others by me. People of that kind of trading are very reserved, and pretend to be the mos... ...is may be allowed in our neighbours’ affairs; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barba... ...or his heart, tore it out, and threw it to the dogs. And even to the worst people it is the sweetest thing imaginable, hav- ing once gained their end ... ... captain fit to re-establish their city in its former dignity and to clear Sicily of several little tyrants by whom it was oppressed, they deputed Tim... ...ey say, who leads his horse in his hand; and our James, King of Naples and Sicily, who, handsome, young and healthful, caused himself to be carried ab...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...ng of Spain to the Archduke, second son of the Emperor; Guipuscoa, Naples, Sicily, and Lorraine to France; and the Milanese to M. de Lorraine, as comp... ...republics of Venice and Genoa, and the ecclesiastical states of Naples and Sicily; our King to have Lorraine and some other slight additions of territ... ...slaved—he felt as though seated under that sword that Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, suspended by a hair over his table, above the head of a man whom ...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...tranger having publicly said, that he could teach Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, an infallible way to find out and discover all the conspiracies h... ...were yet much greater in action. And, as it is said of the geometrician of Syracuse,— [Archimedes.]—who having been disturbed from his con- templation... ...ily, were not favoured by fortune in their design; but Agathocles, king of Syracuse, found her favourable to him when he went over into Africa and lef...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...iving for wisdom and virtue. Two friends of this Pythagorean sect lived at Syracuse, in the end of the fourth century before the Christian era. Syracu... ...ish his power over the city. This power was not according to the laws, for Syracuse, like most other cities, ought to have been governed by a coun- ci... ...h and powerful, he de- 49 Yo n g e feated the Carthaginians, and rendered Syracuse by far the chief city in the island, and he contrived to make ever...

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...nt that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate’er its mission, the s... ...ission, the soft breeze can come 5 To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now ... ... mind’s 55 Internal echo of the imperfect sound; To both I listened, drawing from them both A cheerful confidence in things to come. Content and not un... ...ver his dear Country; left the deeds Of Wallace, like a family of Ghosts, To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...5 Nor, sedulous as I have been to trace How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled the mind with forms sublime or fair, And made me love them, may I... ...t design, the opinions, thoughts, SUMMER V ACATION 57 Of those plain living people now observed With clearer knowledge; with another eye I saw the qu... ...de Where Etna, over hill and valley, casts 380 His shadow stretching towards Syracuse, The city of Timoleon! Righteous Heaven! How are the mighty pros... ...epherds reared, Ere yet familiar with the classic page, I learnt to dream of Sicily; and lo, The gloom, that, but a moment past, was deepened 430 At t...

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...e is no doubt that earth and stones were frequently brought by cru- saders from the Holy Land with a view to the hallowing of their own tombs. The aut... ...of all inevitable faults, this style of composition does tend to fix young people’s interest and attention on the scenes it treats of, and to vivify t... ... characters it describes; and if this sketch at all tends to prepare young people’s minds to look with sympathy and appreciation on any of the great c... ...Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy forester, who was advancing from the opposite end of the glade. This was a man of the largest and most ... ...ar these tidings?” inquired the boy, chang- ing his mood to a graver one. “From the monk to whom you confessed a fortnight back. Did you let him know ... ...s to the noble temper that actuated him in his championship of the English people, they became mere lawless rebels—fiercely profiting by his elevation... ... think this was merely taken from his crusading cross. He bore the arms of Sicily, to which he had not yet resigned his claim. His eye wandered, but n... ... the gulf where lay the fleet that had brought the crusaders of France and Sicily, whom they hoped to join in the conquest and conversion of Tunis. On... ...ain in Sicily. King Charles invited him to spend Christmas at the court at Syracuse or Naples, in hopes, perhaps, of persuading him to the Greek exped...

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... aware that it was a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in othe... ...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for un- reasonably disturbing them... ...was put to bed again. The Opposition retired into its kennel growling. The People coughed like a man of two minds, doubting whether he has been divine... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...succeeds legitimately to that bold Good Robin Hood who fed the poor.—Fresh from this polite encounter, the squire vows money for his per- sonal protec... ...hey had never corresponded since the hour of her marriage. They had met in Sicily, at Syracuse, in the presence of her father and her husband, and so ... ...er corresponded since the hour of her marriage. They had met in Sicily, at Syracuse, in the presence of her father and her husband, and so inani- mate... ...ce and Normandy!’ said Beauchamp, following her look. ‘Sicily: do not omit Syracuse; you were in your naval uni- form: Normandy was our third meeting,...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ... for what went on about him, terrestrially, as Archimedes at the taking of Syracuse. Such a Midshipman he seemed to be, at least, in the then position... ...l fulfilled and passed, and make the present more delicious and more safe. Sicily shall be the Place of our retreat. In the idlest and easiest part of... ...ey & Son his plans—his greater dread of seeking refuge now, in Italy or in Sicily, where men might be hired to assissinate him, he thought, at any dar...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC ... ...l opportunity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISH... ...blic is obviously impracticable, for its author had turned away in despair from existing politics. He has no proposals, in that dialogue at least, for... ... rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the p... ...re- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensio... ... represents one of the persons of the dialogue as having been asked by the people of Gortyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding. Th... ...slave; the slave’s is of the nature of that which was taught by a slave at Syracuse; for he for a stipulated sum instructed the boys in all the busine... ...people was lost through anarchy and disorder; the same thing hap- pened at Syracuse before the tyranny of Gelon; and at Rhodes there was the same sedi... ... against the Lacedaemonians, endeavoured to dissolve the democracy. And at Syracuse, the victory in their war with the Athenians 156 A Treatise on Go...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. This price, however, was probably below the average market price, t... ...u- factures, and from those which consume them. The people of fash- ion in Sicily are clothed in silks made in other countries, from the materials whi... ... appear to have rivalled, and even to have surpassed, their mother cities. Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, Tarentum and Locri in Italy, Ephesus and...

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...ed by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which in- cluded diplom... ...to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the per... ...rvice of the free Republic of Florence, which flourished, as stated above, from the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. After ... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ...may be compelled to follow them. Agathocles, the Sicilian,* became King of Syracuse not only from a private but from a low and abject position. This m... ...elf to the military profession, he rose through its ranks to be Praetor of Syracuse. Being established in that position, and having deliberately resol... ... fighting in Sicily. One morning he assembled the people and the senate of Syracuse, as if he had to discuss with them things relating to the Republic...

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...in the central path, beneath a gold-fringed purple aw- ning, which reached from the wall of the stables to the first terrace of the palace; the common... ...enue of cypress formed, as it were, a double colonnade of green obe- lisks from one extremity to the other. Far in the background stood the palace, bu... ...s red doors quartered with black crosses, its brass gratings protecting it from scorpions below, and its trellises of gilded rods closing the aper- tu... ...d by the inability to pay them. This debt was confused in the minds of the people with the 3200 Euboic talents exacted by Lutatius, and equally with R... ...e cup he said: “Hail first to thee, Baal-Eschmoun, the deliverer, whom the people of my country call Aesculapius! and to you, genii of the fountains, ... ...aircases, its lofty black houses, and its vague gods fiercer even than its people. In the distance a few ships’- lanterns were gliding across the harb... ...self in his memory: assaults, conflagrations, legions, tempests, Drepanum, Syracuse, Lilybaeum, Mount Etna, the plateau of Eryx, five years of battles... ...ue them. “It was scarcely worth while sending you to the slaves’ school at Syracuse. Fetch the others!” And the cooks, butlers, grooms, runners, and l... ...e goddesses in expiation of the horrors formerly committed at the siege of Syracuse. The Syssitia, alleging their right to waifs and strays, claimed t...

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...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy ... ...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ... of remarkable physical strength. Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a ... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple- hearted than we su... ...almost wrathful sternness that made the captain start) “to 527 Dostoevsky Syracuse, the change to the new be-ne-ficial “T o Syracuse!” cried the ... ... “T o Syracuse!” cried the captain, unable to grasp what was said. “Syracuse is in Sicily,” Kolya jerked out suddenly in expla- nation. The doc... ...ears the bell, but where it is he cannot tell. Good- bye, we shall meet in Syracuse.” “Who’s this? Who’s this?” The doctor flew into a terrible ra...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ...eath their own way.’ And that great leader, Demosthenes, after his rout in Sicily, did the same; and C. Fimbria, having struck himself too weakly, ent... ...d Petalism.—[Ostracism at Athens was banishment for ten years; petalism at Syracuse was banishment for five years.] There is yet in this place another... ... without a Breviary. Xenophanes complained one day to Hiero, the tyrant of Syracuse, that he was so poor he had not wherewithal to maintain two servan...