The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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Page 5
... less fastidious in the days of Alexander than in the days of his predecessors . I need not argue that question ; suffice it to say that even had he made no world - conquests he would have been recognized as a really naturalized Hellene ...
... less fastidious in the days of Alexander than in the days of his predecessors . I need not argue that question ; suffice it to say that even had he made no world - conquests he would have been recognized as a really naturalized Hellene ...
Page 10
... less frugal as regards his living , and had very different notions of amusement . The Hellene , who was mostly a towns- man , living in a country of dense cultivation , was beholden to the gymnasium and palaestra for his recreation , of ...
... less frugal as regards his living , and had very different notions of amusement . The Hellene , who was mostly a towns- man , living in a country of dense cultivation , was beholden to the gymnasium and palaestra for his recreation , of ...
Page 12
... from Herodotus , contemporary though they were in their lives , and he determined to carry out the " marriage of Europe and Asia . " To a Hellene the marriage with a foreigner would seem a more or less disgraceful 12 MAHAFFY.
... from Herodotus , contemporary though they were in their lives , and he determined to carry out the " marriage of Europe and Asia . " To a Hellene the marriage with a foreigner would seem a more or less disgraceful 12 MAHAFFY.
Page 13
... less disgraceful concubi- nage . The children of such a marriage could not inherit in any petty Greek state . Now the greatest Macedonian nobles were allied to Median and Persian princesses , and the Greeks who had attained high ...
... less disgraceful concubi- nage . The children of such a marriage could not inherit in any petty Greek state . Now the greatest Macedonian nobles were allied to Median and Persian princesses , and the Greeks who had attained high ...
Page 61
... less he was believed . " Those are a liar's reasons , " people said behind his back . He realized it ; he gnawed his nails , and exhausted himself in vain efforts . He grew perceptibly thinner . Now the jokers asked him to tell the ...
... less he was believed . " Those are a liar's reasons , " people said behind his back . He realized it ; he gnawed his nails , and exhausted himself in vain efforts . He grew perceptibly thinner . Now the jokers asked him to tell the ...
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