Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, 3. kötetC. Bathurst, 1794 |
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Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne. Adrie ( VA SI 1 1 PLUTARCH's LIVE S. PYRRH US . SOME hiftorians write ,
Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne. Adrie ( VA SI 1 1 PLUTARCH's LIVE S. PYRRH US . SOME hiftorians write ,
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... SOME hiftorians write , that Phaeton was the first king after the deluge who reigned over the Thefprotians and Moloffians , and that he was one of thofe who came with Pelafgus into Epirus . Others fay , that Deucalion and Pyrrha , after ...
... SOME hiftorians write , that Phaeton was the first king after the deluge who reigned over the Thefprotians and Moloffians , and that he was one of thofe who came with Pelafgus into Epirus . Others fay , that Deucalion and Pyrrha , after ...
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... Some time was spent , while they were crying out on one fide , and liftening to no purpose on the other . At last one of Pyrrhus's company thought of peeling off a piece of oak bark , and expreffing upon it , with the tongue of a buckle ...
... Some time was spent , while they were crying out on one fide , and liftening to no purpose on the other . At last one of Pyrrhus's company thought of peeling off a piece of oak bark , and expreffing upon it , with the tongue of a buckle ...
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... Some fay , it was not Glaucias , but the altar of the domeftic gods which he approached , and that he raised himself by em- bracing it ; from which it appeared to Glaucias that hea- ven interested itself in the infant's favour . For ...
... Some fay , it was not Glaucias , but the altar of the domeftic gods which he approached , and that he raised himself by em- bracing it ; from which it appeared to Glaucias that hea- ven interested itself in the infant's favour . For ...
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... Some had even the confidence to tell Demetrius , that the mcft prudent part he could take , would be to withdraw , and lay down the government . As he found the motions of the army agreeable to this fort of difcourfe , he was ter ...
... Some had even the confidence to tell Demetrius , that the mcft prudent part he could take , would be to withdraw , and lay down the government . As he found the motions of the army agreeable to this fort of difcourfe , he was ter ...
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41. oldal - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
130. oldal - ... the world. The Tuscan sages said it portended a new race of "men, and a renovation of the world.
42. oldal - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait; While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground?
72. oldal - To do an ill action, is base; to do a good one, which involves you in no danger, is nothing more than common; but it is the property of a good man, to do great and good things, though he risks every thing by it.
22. oldal - Hitherto I have regarded my blindness as a misfortune ; but now, Romans, I wish I had been as deaf as I am blind. For then I should not have heard of your shameful counsels and decrees, so ruinous to the glory of Rome.
16. oldal - is very probable; but is the taking of Sicily to conclude our expeditions?" — "Far from it," answered Pyrrhus, "for if Heaven grant us success in this, that success shall only be the prelude to greater things. Who can forbear Libya and Carthage, then within reach...
42. oldal - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? 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.
162. oldal - As the priests forbade him to approach her, and to have his house defiled with mourning, he sent her a bill of divorce, and ordered her to be carried to another house while the breath was in her body.
16. oldal - Why, then, my friend," said Pyrrhus, laughing, " we will take our ease, and drink and be merry." Cineas, having brought him thus far, replied, " And what hinders us from drinking and taking our ease now, when we have already those things in our hands at which we propose to arrive through seas of blood, through infinite toils and dangers, through innumerable calamities, which we must both cause and suffer?