Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch, المجلد 1Hickman and Hazzard, 1822 |
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الصفحة 56 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
الصفحة 75 - Each of them was obliged to bring in monthly a bushel of meal, eight gallons of wine, five pounds of cheese, two pounds and a half of figs, and a little money to buy flesh and fish.
الصفحة 72 - Who would steal or take a bribe, who would defraud or rob, when he could not conceal the booty-; when he could neither be dignified by the possession of it, nor if cut in pieces be served by its use?
الصفحة 81 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
الصفحة 84 - And to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls, That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.
الصفحة 76 - Rhetrae that none should be written. For what he thought most conducive to the virtue and happiness of a city, was principles interwoven with the manners and breeding of the people. These would remain immovable, as founded in inclination, and be the strongest and most lasting tie; and the habits which education produced in the youth, would answer in each the purpose of a lawgiver. As for smaller matters, contracts...
الصفحة 76 - As for smaller matters, contracts about property, and whatever occasionally varied, it was better not to reduce these to a written form and unalterable method, but to suffer them to change with the times, and to admit of additions or retrenchments at the pleasure of persons so well educated. For he resolved the whole business of legislation into the bringing up of youth.
الصفحة 175 - Aruns, who used all his interest for the Romans, he was prevailed upon to put an end to the war, on condition that they gave up that part of Tuscany which they had conquered,* together with the prisoners, and received their deserters. For the performance of these conditions they gave as hostages ten young men and as many virgins, of the best families in Rome ; among whom was Valeria the daughter of Publicola.
الصفحة 56 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state.