 ... assistants in his plans. The vacancies he ordered to be supplied out of the best and most deserving men past sixty years old ; and we need not wonder if there was much striving for it ; for what more glorious competition could there be amongst men,...  Lives of Illustrious Men - الصفحة 108بواسطة Plutarch - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 925عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Plutarch - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift, or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...glorious competit'on could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Plutarch - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Plutarch - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Ida Carleton Thallon - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | Plutarch - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...the strong, but who of many wise and good was wisest and best, and fittest to be intrusted forever after, as the reward of his merits, with the supreme...together, some selected persons were locked up in a room near the place of election, so contrived that they could neither see nor be seen, but could... | |
 | 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...glorious competition could there be amongst men, than one in which it was not contested who was swiftest among the swift or strongest of the strong, but who...good was wisest and best, and fittest to be intrusted forever after, as the reward of his merits, with the supreme authority of the commonwealth, and with... | |
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