The History of Greece, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 - Greece |
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Page 162 - Limited and Unlimited, Odd and Even, One and Many, Right and Left, Male and Female, Rest and Motion, Straight and Curved, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Square and Oblong ... Aristotle himself deduced the doctrine of four elements and other dogmas by oppositions of the same kind.
Page 159 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
Page 323 - Greeks," who, as Thirlwall describes them, "armed only with a few swords, stood a butt for the arrows, the javelins, and the stones of the enemy, which at length overwhelmed them. Where they fell they were afterwards buried; their tomb, as Simonides sings, was an altar, a sanctuary in which Greece revered the memory of her second founders.
Page 315 - ... during his minority, with the same economy which Pericles exercised in his own domestic affairs. To these advantages of birth and fortune, nature added some still rarer endowments : a person, which in every stage of his life was even at Athens remarked with admiration for its extraordinary comeliness1, a mind of singular versatility, a spirit which, like that of the people itself, shrank from no enterprise, and bent before no obstacle...
Page 415 - ... inspiring the confidence on which it was founded. After ascertaining that the proposal of the lonians was the result, not of hasty passion but of a settled purpose, he undertook the task which was entrusted to him by general consent, of regulating the laws of the union, and of its subCHAP, ordination to Athens.
Page 199 - Thirlwall, with more judgment, suggests that " the actions ascribed to him are not more extravagant than those recorded of other despots whose minds were only disturbed by the possession of arbitrary power.
Page 167 - Italian colonies, his project, though new and bold, ought not to be pronounced visionary or extravagant. 'According to our view of this celebrated society, it is not surprising that it should have presented such a variety of aspects, as to mislead those who fixed their attention on any one of them, and withdrew it from the rest. It was at once a philosophical school, a religious brotherhood, and a political association ; and all these characters appear to have been inseparably united in the founder's...
Page 112 - But it was seldom that the parent state looked forward to any more remote advantage from the colony, or, that the colony expected or desired any from the parent state. There was in most cases nothing to suggest the feeling of dependence on the one side, or a claim of authority on the other. The sons, when they left their home to shift for themselves on a foreign shore, carried with them only the blessing of their fathers, and felt themselves completely emancipated from their control. Often the colony...
Page 444 - ... opened great chasms in the ground, and rolled down huge masses from the highest peaks of Taygetus : Sparta itself became a heap of ruins, in which not more than five houses are said to have been left...
Page 456 - Elpinice came to the house of Pericles to plead with him for her brother. Pericles, playfully, though it would seem not quite so delicately as our manners would require, reminded her that she was past the age at which female intercession is most powerful ; but in effect he granted her request ; for he kept back the thunder of his eloquence, and only rose once, for form's sake, to second the accusation. Plutarch says that Cimon was acquitted ; and there seems to be no reason for doubting the fact,...