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ACHILLES admiration ÆSOP ALCIBIADES ALEXANDER ANACREON appear Aristoteles arms ARTABANUS Athenians Athens beautiful believe better bosom CÆSAR Caius CALLISTHENES Cicero citizens creatures Critolaus CYRUS death deities DEMOSTHENES dialogue DIOGENES doubt earth eloquence enemy EPICTETUS EPICURUS ESCHINES ESOP EUBULIDES Euthymedes eyes father genius glory gods Greeks hand Hannibal hath hear heard heart HELENA horses idle imagine immortal Jupiter king LEONTION less live look LUCIAN LUCULLUS MARCUS MARIUS MESSALA METELLUS mind never PANETIUS PELEUS perhaps Pericles philosophers PHOCION PISISTRATUS PLATO pleasure poet poetry POLYBIUS POLYCRATES possess PRIEST QUINCTUS reason religion render RHADAMISTUS RHODOPÈ Roman Rome SCIPIO SENECA slaves smile Socrates soldiers Solon SOPHOCLES speak stil surely tell TERNISSA thee Thelymnia things thou art thou hast thought Tiberius TIBULLUS TIMOTHEUS truth VIPSANIA voice wisdom wise wish wonder words worst wouldst XENOPHON XERXES youth ZENOBIA
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Page 109 - Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times...
Page 183 - Thucydides, that they lay it down as a rule, never to say what they have reason to suppose would occur to the auditor and reader, in consequence of anything said before, knowing everyone to be more pleased and more easily led by us, when we bring forward his thoughts indirectly and imperceptibly, than when we elbow and outstrip them with our own.
Page 159 - What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of our own, and collect a little from strangers : this prepares us for a more intimate union with them, in which we merge at last altogether. Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none such ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it.
Page 248 - Children are not men nor women : they are almost as different creatures, in many respects, as if they never were to be the one or the other : they are as unlike as buds are unlike flowers, and almost as blossoms are unlike fruits. Greatly are they better than they are about to be, unless Philosophy raises her hand above them when the noon is coming on, and shelters them at one season from the heats that would scorch and wither, and at another from the storms that would shatter and subvert them.
Page 432 - I have performed one action ; I have composed some few things, which posterity, I would fain believe, will not suffer to be quite forgotten. Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any : without fame there is none for the best.
Page 30 - ... pangs of famine long before : alas ! and he had suffered them for me. Do I weep while I am telling you they ended ? I could not have closed his eyes ' I was too young : but I might have received his last breath; the only comfort of an orphan's bosom. Do you now think him blamable, O Msop ? XSOF. It was sublime humanity: it was forbearance and self-denial which even the immortal gods have never shown us.
Page 94 - What shall we say of their philosophy ? what of their virtue ? What shall we say of the greatness whereon their feeders plume themselves ? not caring they indeed for the humbler character of virtue or philosophy. We never call children the greater or the better for wanting others to support them : why then do we call men so for it ? I would be servant of any helpless man for hours together : but sooner shall a king be the slave of Diogenes than Diogenes a king's. Plato. Companionship, O Sinopean,...
Page 28 - I, who thought there was something worth seeing, looked in also, and finding it empty, expressed my disappointment, not thinking, however, about the corn. A faint and transient smile came over his countenance at the sight of mine. He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders. I looked down on the glittering fringe 8 "3 and screamed with joy.