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Achæans Acropolis Ægean Ægina Agesilaus Alcibiades allies ancient Apollo Arcadians archons Argives Argos aristocratic army Asia Minor assembly Athenian Athens attack Attica Baotian battle became Boeotia Brasidas century Cimon citadel citizens Clisthenes coast colonies command confederacy conquered conquest Corcyra Corinth Corinthian council Delphi democracy Demosthenes Dorian Egypt Elis empire enemy envoys Epaminondas Euboea festival fleet force foreign goddess gods Grecian Greece Greek Greek cities Greek lands Gulf Gylippus harbor Hellas Hellenic Hellespont hero honor hundred invading Ionian island Isthmus king Laconia league Lysander Macedonia Mantinea Megara Messenia Middle Hellas Miletus military mountains naval Nicias noble oligarchs Olympia peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus peninsula Pericles Persian Phenician Philip Piræus Pisistratus plain popular Pylus race revolt Salamis Samos Sardis ships Sicily soldiers Sparta Syracusans Syracuse temple Theban Thebes Themistocles Thermopyla Thessaly thousand Thrace Thracian took towns treaty tribes triremes troops tyrant valley victory walls Xerxes Zeus
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Página 59 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky. As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...
Página 182 - 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 182 - ... toil, which they are always imposing upon themselves. None enjoy their good things less, because they are always seeking for more. To do their duty is their only holiday, and they deem the quiet of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth.
Página 220 - Greeks entered into during this war, and, in my opinion,' he adds, ' 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— land-army, fleet and all — and of many thousands only a handful ever returned home.
Página 189 - ... 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 182 - 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.