The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests ...including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volumen1,Parte1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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Página 348 - ... exceed in number the leaves of the trees, the drops of rain, the stars in the heaven, or the sands on the seashore, they will all be unprofitable to you, unless they are accepted by the destour, or priest.
Página 119 - The intermediate time was chiefly filled up by the gymnastic exercises, in which all freemen of Grecian extraction were invited to contend, provided they had been born in lawful wedlock, and had lived untainted by any infamous immoral stain.
Página 418 - The great king ordered the directors of the work to be beheaded ; and, proud of his tyrannic power over feeble man, displayed an impotent rage against the elements. In all the madness of despotism he commanded the Hellespont to be punished with three hundred stripes, and a pair of fetters to be dropped into the sea, adding these frantic and ridiculous expressions ; " It is thus, thou salt and bitter water, that thy master punishes thy unprovoked injury, and he is determined to pass thy treacherous...
Página 474 - Xerxes observed the scene of action, and attentively remarked, with a vievr to reward and punish, the various behaviour of his subjects. The presence of their prince operated on their hopes, and still more powerfully on their fears. But neither the hope of acquiring the favour, nor the fear of incurring the displeasure of...
Página 138 - Their troops were divided into regiments consisting of 512 men, subdivided into four companies, and each of these into smaller divisions, commanded by their respective officers. The soldiers were attended by a multitude of artisans and slaves, who furnished them with all necessary supplies, and accompanied by a long train of priests and poets, who flattered their hopes and animated their valour. A body of cavalry always preceded their inarch.
Página 333 - History of Greece, which contains, perhaps, the first seed of the thought thus expanded into full perfection by genius: —" The present state of Greece compared to the ancient is the silent obscurity of the grave contrasted with the vivid lustre of active life.
Página 15 - The eastern tongues are in general extremely deficient in vowels. It is, or rather was, much disputed whether the ancient orientals used any characters to express them : their' languages therefore had an inflexible thickness of sound, extremely different from the vocal harmony of the Greek, which abounds not only in vowels but in diphthongs. This circumstance denotes in the Greeks organs of perception more acute, elegant, and discerning. They felt such faint variations of liquid sounds as escaped...
Página 474 - T dignity of their motives, as much as to the superiority of their skill, the latter owed their unexampled success in this memorable engagement. The foremost ships of the Phoenicians were dispersed or sunk. Amidst the terror and confusion occasioned by their repulse, they ran foul of those which had been drawn up in two lines behind them. The Athenians skilfully encircled them around, compressed them into a...
Página 85 - This is the chief superiority of poetical imitation above painting, that it can describe, in a few pages, what many galleries of pictures could not represent.
Página 87 - ... arts, including agriculture, were also little advanced ; few persons seemed to have thought of toiling to accumulate wealth ; and each community presented, in time of peace, the picture of a large family. That portion of the people constituting the freemen lived much in public, or in the society of their equals, enjoyed common pleasures and amusements, and had daily opportunities of displaying their useful talents in the sight of their fellow-citizens. The frequent disputes between individuals...