 ... 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...  GRECIAN HISTORY - Página 182por JAMES RICHARD JOY, M.A. - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1912 - 276 páginas
...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...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." 1 1 Thuc. I. 70.—Translated by JowcU. The qualities here set forth by Thucydides as characteristic... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - 1912 - 258 páginas
...quiet of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome occupation. If a man should say of them that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to others he would simply speak the truth.'2 And Xenophon gives the Athenians a similar character. After... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1912 - 422 páginas
...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 others, he would simply speak the truth. In the face of such an enemy, Lacedaemonians, you persist... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 páginas
...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...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth. In the face of such an enemy, you persist in doing nothing. . . . But here let your procrastination... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - 1915 - 758 páginas
...as disagreeable as the most laborious occupation. Therefore if a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth. 71. In the face of such an enemy, Lacedaemonians, you procrastinate and you do not believe that peace... | |
 | 1918 - 430 páginas
...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...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth.'" (1.70.) Another enemy, Hermocrates of Syracuse, pays tribute to Athenian courage thus : " 'To daring... | |
 | G. LOWES DICKINSON - 1919 - 274 páginas
...business. If a man should say of them, in a word, that they were born neither to have peace themselves not to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth." 1 1 Thuc. I. 70.—Translated by Jowett. The qualities here set forth by Thucydides as characteristic... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - 1924 - 474 páginas
...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...peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth. ' In the face of such an enemy, Lacedaemonians, you persist in doing nothing. You do not see that peace... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1928 - 200 páginas
...quiet of inaction to be as disagreeable as the most tiresome occupation. If a man should say of them that they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to others he would simply speak the truth'" — [Livingstone, The Greek Genius, p. 32]. 1"This estimate,"... | |
 | Charles Alexander Robinson - 1959 - 180 páginas
...inaction to War 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...to other men, he would simply speak the truth." The Athenian envoys, who were present, began their candid reply by referring to their victory over the... | |
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