...this cause more than the dampnes.* and thickness of their atmosphere that depressed the intuk* lectual and moral energies of the Boeotians, and justified,...neighbours so freely poured on their proverbial failing.' ((list, <if Grieca, p. 12.) We might add that among the Greeks piygislmrsn was another name for sensuality,...

...vegetation. The profusion in which the ordinary gifts of Nature were spread over the face of Boeotia, the abundant returns of its grain, the richness of...so freely poured on their proverbial failing $ The Attio satire might have been suspected, and large abatement might have been thought necessary for national...

...Bceotia was remarkable in ancient times for its extraordinary fertility, and it was this cause, probably, more than the dampness and thickness of their atmosphere,...justified the ridicule which their temperate and witty neighbors, the Athenians, so freely poured on their proverbial failing. Some of the principal productions...

...Bceotia was remarkable in ancient times for its extraordinary fertility, and it was this cause, probably, more than the dampness and thickness of their atmosphere,...depressed the intellectual and moral energies of the Breotians, and justified the ridicule which their temperate and witty neighbors, the Athenians, so...

...its pastures, the materials of luxury furnished by its woods and waters, are chiefly remarkable, in a historical point of view, from the unfavourable effect...character of the race, which finally established itself in thia envied territory. It was this cause, more than the dampness and thickness of their atmosphere,...