Athenian Letters: Or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War. Containing the History of the Times, in Dispatches to the Ministers of State at the Persian Court. Besides Letters on Various Subjects Between Him and His Friends. ...John Archer, 1792 - 525 Seiten |
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... truth may be owned ; the illusion vanishes ; it is a masquerade which is closed ; the fancy - dreffes and the do- mino's are returned to their respective wardrobes ; the company walk about again in their proper habits , and return to ...
... truth may be owned ; the illusion vanishes ; it is a masquerade which is closed ; the fancy - dreffes and the do- mino's are returned to their respective wardrobes ; the company walk about again in their proper habits , and return to ...
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... truth , when I reflect on this particular , I admire thee for anticipating the experience with- out the infirmity of years , and moderating the fever of youth without lofing the true fpirit of it . Thou haft made it thy bufinefs , from ...
... truth , when I reflect on this particular , I admire thee for anticipating the experience with- out the infirmity of years , and moderating the fever of youth without lofing the true fpirit of it . Thou haft made it thy bufinefs , from ...
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... truth . Happy were thofe minutes , and I fhall always rank them among the happiest of my whole life , which I spent with you in divine conversation , when I travelled into Bactria . How transported do I call to mind the hours , when I ...
... truth . Happy were thofe minutes , and I fhall always rank them among the happiest of my whole life , which I spent with you in divine conversation , when I travelled into Bactria . How transported do I call to mind the hours , when I ...
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... truth . And thus , I was not a little furprized being told by a native of this country , that there is a people in the fartheft limits of the other Arabia bordering upon Syria , whose descent is by the most ancient and beft war- ranted ...
... truth . And thus , I was not a little furprized being told by a native of this country , that there is a people in the fartheft limits of the other Arabia bordering upon Syria , whose descent is by the most ancient and beft war- ranted ...
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... the gradual and regular steps , by which it proceeds in the fearch of useful truth , I please myself with thinking , that a particular advantage , with regard to The thee , will attend my difcuffing this fubject . 94 ATHENIAN LETTERS .
... the gradual and regular steps , by which it proceeds in the fearch of useful truth , I please myself with thinking , that a particular advantage , with regard to The thee , will attend my difcuffing this fubject . 94 ATHENIAN LETTERS .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ægypt Ægyptian affembly againſt amongſt anſwer Areopagus ARTAXERXES Athenians Athens becauſe befides buſineſs cauſe CLEANDER CLEANDER to GOBRYAS CLEANDER to HYDASPES CLEON confiderable converfation courſe court curiofity defign defire deity diftinguiſhed diſpatch Ecbatana enemies eſtabliſhed eſteem exerciſes expoſed facred faid fame fatrap feems fent fervice feveral fhall fhew fhips fhould fide fince firft firſt folemn fome foon ftate ftatue ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior furprize GOBRYAS greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks hiftory higheſt himſelf honour HYDASPES intereft itſelf juſt king Lacedemon laft laſt LETTER mafter MARDONIUS meaſures MEGABYZUS minifter Mitylene moft moſt muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion OROMASDES ORSAMES OSIRIS Peloponnefian Perfia perfon PERICLES philofopher PHORMIO pleaſed pleaſure prefent preferve prieſts puniſhment raiſed reaſon ſeems ſeveral SITALCES ſome Sparta ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſuch temple Thebes thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou wilt Thrace uſe whofe whoſe wiſdom worſhip XERXES
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Seite xlv - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Seite 221 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Seite 128 - ... dead. After some time he came abroad, and pretended that the intelligence which his friends gave him in his retreat, of the transactions of Crotona, was collected during his stay in the other world among the shades of the departed. He formed his disciples, who came from all parts to put themselves under his direction, into a kind of republic, where none were admitted till a severe probation had sufficiently exercised their patience and docility. He afterwards divided them into esoteric and exoteric...
Seite 129 - Pherecydes and Thales in the other; following, in this particular, the patterns set him by the Egyptian priests, his instructors, who were not less celebrated for settling the civil than the religious economy of their nation. In imitation of them, Pythagoras gave laws to the republic of Crotona, and brought the inhabitants from a state of luxury and dissoluteness, to be eminent for order and sobriety. While he lived, he was frequently consulted by the neighbouring republics, as the composer of their...
Seite xiv - The work was supposed to be genuine, and a translation from an old Arabic version ; but when a due interval of time has elapsed the truth may be owned ; the illusion vanishes ; it is a masquerade which is closed ; the fancy dresses and the dominos are returned to the respective wardrobes; the company walk about again in their proper habits, and return to their proper occupations in life."* A copy of this edition having been transmitted by the younger brother of Charles Yorke, created Lord Dover,...
Seite 10 - The firft queftion you would probably have me refolve, is, what peculiar difference I find in the manners of Greece and Perfia...
Seite 128 - ... his travels through the east, conversing with the Magi and Indian Brachmans, and mixing their doctrines with those he had learnt in Egypt. He afterwards studied the laws of Minos at crete, and those of Lycurgus at Sparta. Having spent the earlier part of his life in this useful manner, he returned to Samos well acquainted with every thing curious either in nature or art in foreign countries, improved with all the advantages proceeding from a regular and laborious course of learned education,...
Seite 129 - ... and imagined that between God and man there were various orders of spiritual beings, who administered to the divine will. He believed in the doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls; and held that God was diffused through all parts of the universe, like a kind of universal soul, pervading every particle of matter, and animating every living creature, from the most contemptible reptile to mankind themselves, who shared a larger portion of the Divine spirit. The metempsychosis...
Seite 33 - In imitation therefore of these men and placing happiness in liberty and liberty in valour, be forward to encounter the dangers of war. For the miserable and desperate men are not they that have the most reason to be prodigal of their lives, but rather...
Seite 189 - ... important occurrences. I am satisfied, that man is not born for himself only, but for the service of others, . and that there is a law, which directs all to the practice of what is just, and good, and true, planted in every man's breast ; that human laws only inforce this, and bind it upon bad men ; that the good are not influenced by them, and he that attends has no need of any other obligation than what av'scs trom hence.