Plutarch's LivesHarper, 1841 - 748 oldal |
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xiii. oldal
... occasions , been favourable to me , yet I have no obligations to her so great as the enjoyment of my brother Timon's ... occasion he visited that country , it is not quite so certain ; but he probably went to Rome in a public capacity ...
... occasions , been favourable to me , yet I have no obligations to her so great as the enjoyment of my brother Timon's ... occasion he visited that country , it is not quite so certain ; but he probably went to Rome in a public capacity ...
xv. oldal
... occasion was a proof of his attachment to it . Such was the man who postponed the letter of a prince to the lecture of a philosopher . But Plutarch was not only treated with general marks of distinction by the superior people in Rome ...
... occasion was a proof of his attachment to it . Such was the man who postponed the letter of a prince to the lecture of a philosopher . But Plutarch was not only treated with general marks of distinction by the superior people in Rome ...
xvii. oldal
... occasion , from Philistus's known adherence to arbitrary power , to load him with the heaviest reproaches . Those whom he injured are in some degree excusable , if , in their resentment , they treated him with indignities after death ...
... occasion , from Philistus's known adherence to arbitrary power , to load him with the heaviest reproaches . Those whom he injured are in some degree excusable , if , in their resentment , they treated him with indignities after death ...
xx. oldal
... occasions , but supported the dispensations of Providence with a solemn and rational submission , even when they ... occasion , found her house in no more disorder than if nothing distressing had happened . She received her friends ...
... occasions , but supported the dispensations of Providence with a solemn and rational submission , even when they ... occasion , found her house in no more disorder than if nothing distressing had happened . She received her friends ...
4. oldal
... occasion to find him out , when the meat was served up , he drew his sword , as if he designed to carve with it , and took care it should attract his notice . Egeus quickly perceiving it , dashed down the cup of poison , and after some ...
... occasion to find him out , when the meat was served up , he drew his sword , as if he designed to carve with it , and took care it should attract his notice . Egeus quickly perceiving it , dashed down the cup of poison , and after some ...
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26. oldal - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
290. oldal - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
127. oldal - The whole fleet was in readiness, and Pericles on board his own galley, when there happened an eclipse of the sun. This sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and having covered his eyes with it, asked him...
35. oldal - As for the education of youth, which he looked upon as the greatest and most glorious work of a lawgiver, he began with it at the very source, taking into consideration their conception and birth, by regulating the marriages. For he did not (as Aristotle says) desist from his attempt to bring the women tinder sober rules.
252. oldal - But he tells us he did not choose that his son should be reprimanded by a slave, or pulled by the ears, if he happened to be slow in learning; or that he should be indebted to so mean a person for his education. He was, therefore, himself his preceptor in grammar, in law, and in the necessary exercises; for he taught him not only how to throw a dart, to fight hand to hand, and to ride, but to box, to endure heat and cold, and to swim the most rapid rivers.
213. oldal - Not to be discouraged, but to exert all his skill in his part; for it was not out of any dislike that he went out, but he was ashamed that his citizens should see him who never pitied those he put to death, weep at the sufferings of Hecuba and Andromache.
294. oldal - After the triumph, he was thrown into prison, where, whilst they were in haste to strip him, some tore his robe off his back, and others catching eagerly at his pendants, pulled off the tips of his ears with them. When he was thrust down naked into the dungeon, all wild and confused, he said with a frantic smile, " Heavens! how cold is this bath of yours...
246. oldal - We certainly ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household goods, which, when worn out with use, we throw away; and were it only to learn benevolence to human kind, we should be merciful to other creatures. For my own part, I would not sell even an old ox...
42. oldal - Helotes, that they might be massacred under pretence of law. In other respects they treated them with great inhumanity; sometimes they made them drink till they were intoxicated, and in that condition led them into the public halls to show the young men what drunkenness was. They ordered them...
51. oldal - ... refused their sanction, it was not lawful for any Roman soldier, nor even for the king- himself, to begin hostilities.