Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Zväzok 1J. Murray, 1835 |
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Strana 154 - THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Strana 144 - ... whose territories were considerable, extending from the isle of Tenedos to Upper Phrygia, had raised all his power, and strengthened himself by the alliance of many of the princes of the lesser Asia. The Greeks embarked at Aulis, opposite to Eubcea, and landed in Asia, at the promontory of Sigoeum. Their first operation, after beating back the enemy who opposed their landing, was to form a large camp at some distance from the city. The site of Troy is generally supposed to have been at the distance...
Strana 155 - ... cultivated as early, and to have been improved as highly in them, as in any part of the mother country. The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remarkable, not in ancient Greece, but the one in an Asiatic, the other in an Italian colony.
Strana 154 - The colonists carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to what can grow up of its own accord in the course of many centuries among savage and barbarous nations. They carry out with them too the habit of subordination, some notion of the regular government which takes...
Strana 47 - Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show. There in the forum swarm a numerous train ; The subject of debate, a townsman slain : One pleads the fine dischargM, which one denied, And bade the public and the laws decide...
Strana 317 - Know that a son is born to us. We thank the gods not so much for their gift", as for bestowing it at a time when Aristotle lives. We assure ourselves that you will form him a prince worthy of his father, and worthy of Macedon.
Strana 153 - The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction.
Strana 130 - ... of the shrines and images, accompanied with voices in concert, dancings, and music : at other times, during the darkness, severities were exercised upon the initiated by persons unseen : they were dragged to the ground by the hair of their heads, and there beaten and lashed, without knowing from whom the blows proceeded, or why they were inflicted : lightnings and thunderings and dreadful apparitions were occasionally played off, with every invention to terrify and astonish : at length, upon...
Strana 195 - ... ten tribes. Officers we're appointed to count the number of shells; for, if they were fewer than 6000, the vote did not take place. If they exceeded that number, the several names were laid apart, and the man whose name was found on the greatest number of shells, was banished for ten years from his country; his estate in the meantime remaining entire for his own use or that of the family. This "shelling...
Strana 129 - ... initiation was performed at midnight, and the candidate was taken into an interior sacristy of the temple, with a myrtle garland on his head; here he was examined if he had duly performed his stated ablutions; clean hands, a pure heart, and a native proficiency in the Greek tongue, were indispensable requisites; having passed this examination, he was admitted into the temple, which was an edifice of immense magnitude; after proclamation made that the strictest silence should be observed, the...