Their other affections correspond to the grossness of these animal appetites. Capricious love and hatred, anger and jealousy, often disturb the calm of their bosoms; the peace of the Olympian state might be broken by factions, and even by conspiracies... A History of Greece - Page 211by Connop Thirlwall - 1845Full view - About this book
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 1178 pages
...cruelty. The stranger and the supplumt are under his peculiar protection : the fence that encloses the family dwelling is in his keeping : he avenges...wavers in his purpose, is overreached by artifice, Minded by desire, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation in which he stands... | |
| John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 354 pages
...from the sacrifices of their worshipers. Their other affections correspond to the prossness of their animal appetites. Capricious love and hatred, anger...from their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purposes, is overreached by artifice, blinded by desire, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence."... | |
| 1881 - 882 pages
...tbe Olympian state might be broken by factions, and even by conspiracies formed against its chief. Ho himself cannot keep perfectly aloof from their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his_ purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly... | |
| George Rawlinson - Civilization, Ancient - 1882 - 306 pages
...cruelty. The stranger and the suppliant are under his peculiar protection ; the fence that encloses the family dwelling is in his keeping ; he avenges...quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation... | |
| George Rawlinson - Religions - 1883 - 278 pages
...ambrosial food, and inhale a grateful savour from the sacrifices of their worshippers. Their_j)ther affections correspond to the grossness of these animal...quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation... | |
| 1884 - 106 pages
...their quarrels; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....probably the poet had not formed a distinct notion of it. Fate is generally described as emanating from his will, but sometimes he appears to be no more... | |
| Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon - Christianity and other religions - 1909 - 300 pages
...refreshment of ambrosial food, and inhale a grateful savor from the sacrifices of their worshipers. Their other affections correspond to the grossness...quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation... | |
| Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon - Christianity and other religions - 1909 - 308 pages
...their quarrels; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....probably the poet had not formed a distinct notion of it. Fate is generally described as emanating from his will, but sometimes he appears to be no more... | |
| George Rawlinson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 396 pages
...worshippers. Their other affections correspond to the grossness of these animal appetites. Capricious love nnd hatred, anger and jealousy, often disturb the calm...quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation... | |
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