Grecian History: An Outline Sketch

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Chautauqua Press, 1900 - 298 páginas
 

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Página 196 - When conquerors, they pursue their victory to the utmost ; when defeated, they fall back the least. Their bodies they devote to their country as though they belonged to other men ; their true self is their mind, which is most truly their own when employed in her service.
Página 44 - Silver were the doorposts that were set on the brazen threshold, and silver the lintel thereupon, and the hook of the door was of gold. And on either side stood golden hounds and silver, which Hephaestus wrought by his cunning, to guard the palace of great-hearted Alcinous, being free from death and age all their days. And within were seats arrayed against the wall this way and that, from the threshold even to the inmost chamber, and thereon were spread light coverings finely woven, the handiwork...
Página 196 - ... you will never be delivered from them. They are impetuous, and you are dilatory; they are always abroad, and you are always at home. For they hope to gain something by leaving their homes; but you are afraid that any new enterprise may imperil what you have already. When conquerors, they pursue their victory to the utmost; when defeated, they fall back the least.
Página 234 - Thus ended the greatest undertaking of this war [the Peloponnesian], and in my opinion the greatest in which the Greeks were ever concerned, the one most splendid for the conquerors and most disastrous for the conquered; for they suffered no common defeat, but were absolutely annihilated — army, fleet, and all — and of many thousands who went away only a handful ever saw their homes again.
Página 203 - ... the claims of excellence. In this sense we are an aristocracy ; not of birth, for among us there is no privilege ; not of wealth, for poverty is a Bar to none ; but of merit ; a state in which every one who can benefit the city may do so without let or hindrance. " Such is the freedom of our political life, and in society we are equally without constraint. Everyone does what he pleases, without suspicion or offence.
Página 158 - Plataea took place on the same day, and that the marines on the Ionian promontory were encouraged in their attack by a rumor that ran through their ranks that Mardonius had been defeated in Boeotia. Some said the gods had carried the news, and some had seen the staff of an invisible herald lying on the beach. Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale mark the successive stages of the great war. Marathon has been called one of the decisive battles of the world, for it was the victory of...
Página 253 - ... the noise of the shouting grew louder, and as the general saw company after company break into a run and take up the cry as it reached the crest of the hill he thought there was serious work ahead. Putting spurs to his horse and calling the troops to follow, he dashed to their aid. Then quickly they distinguished the voices of the soldiers shouting,
Página 196 - When an enterprise succeeds, they have gained a mere instalment of what is to come; but if they fail, they at once conceive new hopes and so fill up the void. With them alone to hope is to have, for they lose not a moment in the execution of an idea. ... To do their duty is their only holiday, and they deem the quiet of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business.

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