A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great, Volume 5J. Murray, 1888 - Greece |
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Page 69 - For in truth we combine in the most remarkable manner these two qualities — extreme boldness in execution, with full debate beforehand on that which we are going about : whereas with others, ignorance alone imparts boldness — debate introduces hesitation.
Page 67 - Thus conducting our private social intercourse with reciprocal indulgence, we are restrained from wrong on public matters by fear and reverence of our magistrates for the time being and of our laws - especially such laws as are instituted for the protection of wrongful sufferers, and even such others as, though not written, are enforced by a common sense of shame. Besides this, we have provided for our minds numerous recreations from toil...
Page 71 - This portion of the speech of Perikles deserves peculiar attention, because it serves to correct an assertion, often far too indiscriminately made, respecting antiquity as contrasted with modern societies - an assertion that the ancient societies sacrificed the individual to the state, and that only in modern times has individual agency been left free to the proper extent.
Page 73 - ... with derision. To impose upon men such restraints, either of law or of opinion, as are requisite for the security and comfort of society, but to encourage rather than repress the free play of individual impulse subject to those limits, is an ideal which, if it was ever approached at Athens, has certainly never been attained, and has indeed comparatively been little studied or cared for, in any modern society.
Page 68 - From the magnitude of our city, the products of the whole earth are brought to us, so that our enjoyment of foreign luxuries is as much our own and assured as those which we grow at home. In respect to training for war, we differ from our opponents (the Lacedaemonians) on several material points. First, we lay open our city as a common resort: we apply no xenelasy to...
Page 84 - Three years altogether did this calamity desolate Athens : continuously, during the entire second and third years of the war — after which followed a period of marked abatement for a year and a half ; but it then revived again, and lasted for another year, with the same fury as at first. The public loss, over and above the private misery, which this unexpected enemy inflicted upon Athens, was incalculable. Out of...
Page 82 - ... tended to aggravate the calamity. There remained only those who, having had the disorder and recovered, were willing to tend the sufferers. These men formed the single exception to the all-pervading misery of the time ; for the disorder seldom attacked any one twice, and when it did, the second attack was never fatal.
Page 68 - Next, in regard to education, while the Lacedaemonians even from their earliest youth subject themselves to an irksome exercise for the attainment of courage, we with our easy habits of life are not less prepared than they to encounter all perils within the measure of our strength.
Page 83 - ... we read in the words of an eye-witness, that the deaths took place among this close-packed crowd without the smallest decencies of attention — that the dead and the dying lay piled one upon another not merely in the public roads but even in the temples, in spite of the understood defilement of the sacred building — that half-dead sufferers were seen lying round all the springs from insupportable thirst — that the numerous corpses thus...
Page 254 - Nicias and his oligarchal supporters, who force a political enemy into the supreme command against his own strenuous protest, persuaded that he will fail, so as to compromise the .lives of many soldiers, and the destinies of the state...