Universal History Americanised; Or, An Historical View of the World, from the Earliest Records to the Year 1808: With a Particular Reference to the State of Society, Literature, Religion, and Form of Government, in the United States of America, Tập 4Copy-right secured, for the benefit of the family of Doctor Ramsay, and printed by assignment from them, by M. Carey & son, 1819 |
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Trang 187 - ... good. The purity of Christian morality, little enough indeed seen in practice, nevertheless is become so familiar in theory, that it passes almost for obvious, and even congenial to the human mind. Those only will justly estimate the merit of that near approach to it which Socrates made, who will take the pains to gather, as they may from the writings of his...
Trang 186 - It was usual at Athens for execution very soon to follow condemnation ; commonly on the morrow. But it happened that the condemnation of Socrates took place on the eve of the day appointed for the sacred ceremony of crowning the galley which carried the annual offerings to the gods worshipped at Delos : and immemorial tradition forbade all executions till the sacred vessel's return. Thus the death of Socrates was respited thirty days, while his friends had free access to him in the prison.
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Trang 338 - ... been employed in stifling domestic rebellion, in securing, and afterwards in displaying, the fruits of victory. This prince assumed the appellation of Darius, but could not recall the principles or manners which distinguished his countrymen during the reign of the first monarch of that name. In the space of about two hundred and thirty years, the Persians had been continually degenerating from the virtues which characterise a poor and warlike nation, without acquiring any of those arts and improvements...
Trang 148 - ... part of the entertainment. Among other pieces was rehearsed the Electra of Euripides, and particularly that affecting chorus, " We come, O daughter of Agamemnon, to thy rustic and humble roof.
Trang 341 - Athenians, whose city he preferred to be the repository of his trophies and renown. Immediately after the battle, he sent three hundred suits of Persian armour, as dedications to Minerva in the citadel. This magnificent present was inscribed with the following words : " Gained by Alexander, son of Philip, and the Greeks (except the Lacedaemonians), from the Barbarians of Asia.
Trang 72 - It has been by readiness to ASSIST ALL, whether Greeks or barbarians, that OUR empire, and ALL empire, has been acquired. Nor, let me add, is it now in our choice how far we will stretch our command ; for, possessing empire, we must maintain it, and rather extend than permit any diminution of it ; or we shall, more even than weaker states, risk our own subjection to a forein dominion.
Trang 133 - In the same assembly therefore, and en the same day, Alcibiades was accused, and almost unanimously condemned ; and, that the affairs of the republick might not again suffer by the abuse of undivided power, they proceeded to elect ten generals. Among the newly appointed commanders, were Thrasyllus, Leon, Diomedon, Conon, and Pericles, men whose approved valour and love of liberty had recommended them to publick honours. These had scarcely...