 An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless,...  Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne - Stran 181avtor: Willis Mason West - 1902 - 564 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1900 - 526 strani
...judge" (Attic Orators, p. 325). 'We alone,' says Perikles in his famous funeral oration (Thuc. II 45), 'regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character ; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy.' What, then, is democracy... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 316 strani
...our labouring classes 3 have a competent knowledge of politics ; indeed, we are the only Greeks who regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as one who only minds his own business,4 but as a man unfit for any business at all. If we, the people... | |
 | William Pittenger - 1883 - 290 strani
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy. The great impediment to action... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 strani
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus too, our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character ; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy. The great impediment to action... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 348 strani
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus, too, our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character ; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy. The great impediment to action... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 588 strani
...as of our own. . . . "And in the matter of education, whereas our adversaries from early youth arc always undergoing laborious exercises which are to...affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character. . . . " To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 786 strani
...the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace:...man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and, if few of us are originators, we arc all sound judges of... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 790 strani
...disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the Stale because he takes care of his own household, and even...man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and, if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 788 strani
...docs not neglect the State because he takes care of his own household, and even those of us who arc engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics....man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and, if few of us are originators, we arc all sound judges of... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 strani
...household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We aloue regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character. . . . " To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in... | |
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