Selections from the first five books: together with the twenty-first and twenty-second books entireD. McKay, 1872 - 601 Seiten |
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Seite 483 - Pleasing sketches of the authors appear in the form of an introduction to each of the volumes. The books are in a convenient form, being exceptionally handy for the pocket. They are printed from clear type, and are attractively and durably bound. Caesar's Commentaries.— E Books.
Seite 483 - Phaedo. Plato's Gorgias. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone. Xenophon's Anabasis. — Five Books. Xenophon's Memorabilia, complete. Goethe's Egmont. Goethe's Faust. Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea. Goethe's Iphigenia In Tauris. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. Lessing's Nathan the Wise. Schiller's Maid of Orleans. Schiller's Maria Stuart. Schiller's William TelL Others will be added at short intervals. VAVID McKAY, Publisher. Philadelphia. P».
Seite 483 - These translations have been prepared with great care. They follow the original text literally, thus forming a valuable help to the student in his efforts to master the difficulties which beset him. Pleasing sketches of the authors appear in the form of an introduction to each of the volumes. The books are in a convenient form, being exceptionally handy for the pocket. They are printed from clear type, and are attractively and durably bound.
Seite 277 - ... sovereignty ? or that we shall not soon enough become slaves to the son of him, to whose son-in-law our armies were bequeathed as an hereditary right ? I am of opinion, that this youth should be kept at home, and taught, under the restraint of the laws and the authority of magistrates, to live on an equal footing with the rest of the citizens, lest at some time or other this small fire should kindle a vast conflagration.
Seite 321 - Hannibal, wondering what obstructed the march, that the rock was impassable. Having then gone himself to view the place, it seemed clear to him that he must lead his army round it, by however great a circuit, through the pathless and untrodden regions around. But this route also...
Seite 321 - ... having advanced before the standards, and ordered the soldiers to halt on a certain eminence, whence there was a prospect far and wide, points out to them Italy and the plains of the Po, extending themselves beneath the Alpine mountains; and said " that they were now surmounting not only the ramparts of Italy, but also of the city of Rome ; that the rest of the journey would be smooth and down-hill; that after one, or, at most, a second battle, they would have the citadel and capital of Italy...
Seite 265 - ... to the summit in such silence, that they not only escaped the notice of the guards, but did not even alarm the dogs, animals particularly watchful with regard to any noise at night. They were not...
Seite 321 - ... their own conjectures of the route. For two days they remained encamped on the summit; and rest was given to the soldiers, exhausted with toil and fighting: and several beasts of burden, which had fallen down among the rocks, by following the track of the army arrived at the camp. A fall of snow, it being now the season of the setting of the constellation of the Pleiades, caused great fear to the soldiers, already worn out with weariness of so many hardships. On the standards being moved forward...
Seite 139 - That their flight would avail them nothing if they deserted their post; if they passed the bridge and left it behind them, there would soon be more of the enemy in the Palatium and Capitol than in the Janiculum; for that reason he advised and charged them to demolish the bridge, by their sword, by fire, or by any means whatever; that he would stand the shock of the enemy as far as could be done by one man.