| Thucydides - 1874 - 738 pages
...we look to Krrcdom of Athenian the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private and lui- differences ; if to social standing, advancement in...considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit ; while as to poverty, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of... | |
| Ida Carleton Thallon - Greece - 1914 - 680 pages
...favours the many instead of the few ; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private...is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising... | |
| Thucydides - Greece - 1914 - 640 pages
...afford equal justice to all in their &*« •j&\. t_ BOOK II. BC 431 freedor and Spar tan con straint private differences ; if to social standing, advancement...is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. /[There, far from exercising... | |
| Thucydides - Greece - 1914 - 654 pages
...consideraAthenian j 'si .r i_l i BC 431. tions not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again freedom does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the andSpar- s t a te, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition, tan con- m 7 r . , . J . J... | |
| Percy Bernard Showan - Citizenship - 1923 - 196 pages
...class does not interfere with merit... nor does poverty bar the way to advancement in public life. ..if a man is able to serve the State he is not hindered because he is not well known. We are easy in our private relations with one another... but this does... | |
| Finley Hooper - Education - 1979 - 596 pages
...centuries earlier, the famous statesman Pericles had said in his Funeral Oration: "If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private...is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition" (Thucydides II. 6. 37). Marius wanted this to be true in Rome. A citizen must be judged according to... | |
| Robert A. Dahl - Political Science - 2008 - 414 pages
...administration favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private...if to social standing, advancement in public life depends on reputation for ability, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit;... | |
| William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...Our constitution] favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. . . . [As to] social standing, advancement in public life falls...is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. Plato's much-discussed thought that philosophers should be kings is found in The Republic, as follows:... | |
| Martin Bulmer, Anthony M. Rees - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 332 pages
...favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private...is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The translation of Thucydides' report on the speech is perhaps a little too modern,4 but many of the... | |
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