A History of Classical Greek Literature, Volume 2Harper and Brothers, 1880 - Greek literature |
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... appears from the fragments of his Sicilian contemporary Epicharmus , and from Attic references down to the days of Socrates . The whole philosophy of the man who had discovered that all organism grows , and that all growth implies ...
... appears from the fragments of his Sicilian contemporary Epicharmus , and from Attic references down to the days of Socrates . The whole philosophy of the man who had discovered that all organism grows , and that all growth implies ...
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... appears for centuries from our studies . Simple stories of rude shepherd life , and the loves of rustic swains , were known long after as Milesian tales — a faint and wretched afterglow of the most lurid and stormy sunset in the history ...
... appears for centuries from our studies . Simple stories of rude shepherd life , and the loves of rustic swains , were known long after as Milesian tales — a faint and wretched afterglow of the most lurid and stormy sunset in the history ...
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... appears from the strongly democratic temper of the later part of his history , in spite of his aristocratical antecedents and parentage , that he came under the influence of Pericles and his policy . Yet if we assume this , and even ...
... appears from the strongly democratic temper of the later part of his history , in spite of his aristocratical antecedents and parentage , that he came under the influence of Pericles and his policy . Yet if we assume this , and even ...
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... appears to feel in Hecatæus a rival , while the rest were hardly in the same plane of literature . of $ 315 . The books now enumerated , together with the poetical library above described , were all the literary sources accessible 1 vi ...
... appears to feel in Hecatæus a rival , while the rest were hardly in the same plane of literature . of $ 315 . The books now enumerated , together with the poetical library above described , were all the literary sources accessible 1 vi ...
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... appears credulous from this point of view , he was probably far in advance of the Greeks of his day , if we except the Periclean circle . He is constantly sceptical , and even disposed to censure others as too easy of belief ; but as is ...
... appears credulous from this point of view , he was probably far in advance of the Greeks of his day , if we except the Periclean circle . He is constantly sceptical , and even disposed to censure others as too easy of belief ; but as is ...
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Page 340 - ... of Demosthenes. He concludes that the onus frobandi lies on the sceptics, and makes out a very reasonable case. Without venturing to decide the question, in which, however, I sympathise with Blass, I will only point out how signally German critics have their sesthetical judgments controlled by their critical conclusions, and in consequence how utterly unsafe they are as to questions of style. Westermann, having made up his mind that the letters were spurious, discovers that he is guided by their...
Page 272 - The shorter eighth chapter wouUl then be an excerpt, put together and added to the Memoirs when the Apologia came to be read and copied out separately. As a defence, though neatly and even elegantly written in the unmistakable vein of Socratic questioning, it is very inferior to Plato's Apologia.
Page 115 - eristic ' or ' antilogic ' method of discussion came in with the schools of philosophy in the time of Pericles, and the practice of it was maintained till quite lately in the ' keeping an act ' in the theological schools of the Universities.
Page 388 - Rome ; they represent a refined and careworn, but somewhat hard face, in which thought and perhaps bodily suffering have drawn deep furrows. His policy was Macedonian and anti-Demosthenic, and for this reason he was assailed by many sham patriots.
Page 112 - We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others, a depth and abundance of human emotion which has now passed out of military proceedings. The Greeks who fight, like the Greeks who look on, are not soldiers withdrawn from the community, and specialized...
Page 23 - WORK. 23 can be far better appreciated by a perusal of any twenty chapters. The plan is distinctly stated at the opening. It is to narrate the great conflict of Greeks and barbarians ; so that the glorious deeds of both may not perish, and that their true causes may be known. Herodotus thus chooses no petty quarrel between neighbouring Greek cities, no dispute of transitory moment, but the great shock of East and West, of liberty and despotism, which has lasted in many Protean phases up to the present...