The history of Greece. To which is prefixed a brief memoir of the author, by lord Redesdale, Količina 31829 |
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Stran 452 - This harmony is indeed the foundation, the firm foundation, on which the proud superstructure of the British constitution rests. Ranks vary, as much, or perhaps more than elsewhere. But no one rank has that gigantic preeminence, which can inable it to trample upon its next inferior.
Stran 364 - ... various proposals offered ; and at length it appeared the prevailing disposition, and even the decided resolution, to sail immediately for Peiraeus, and at once restore the former constitution, and punish those who had overthrown it. Then, says Thucydides, for the first time Alcibiades did his country a real service, and such a service that perhaps no man ever did a greater.
Stran 121 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Stran 333 - Pedaritus were desemblance to our political clubs, with this difference principally, that as property, liberty, and life itself were incomparably less secure there than under the mild firmness of our mixed government, the interests of individuals, which bound them to those societies were much more pressing than what commonly lead to any similar establishments among us. The sanction of a solemn oath to their engagements was, therefore, always required of the members; whence the societies obtained...
Stran 313 - Governor.] Or, Harmostes; though Thucydides does not here use that term. See more in Krueger, p. 280. On this office of Harmostes Mitford has the following remarks : " The internal divisions of every little state, far more than any consideration for the confederacy at large, induced the subordinate governments not only to admit readily, but often to desire, the controlling interference of the imperial people. The Lacedaemonian government accordingly sent superintending officers of their own, with...
Stran 310 - Xlx' their revolt had been determined on without due precaution and just foresight. Till the present conjuncture, the aff'airs of Chios had long been managed with a steady prudence, uncommon among the Grecian cities. Moderate in prosperity, blameless toward their neighbours, and using their increasing wealth and power for no purpose of ambition, but directing their politics merely to secure the happiness they enjoyed, their island, from the time of the Persian war, had never seen an enemy within...
Stran 169 - the Sicilians, which some would teach you to fear, has been much exaggerated. They are a mixed people, little attached to one another, little attached to a country which they consider as scarcely theirs, and little disposed to risk either person or fortune for it ; but always ready for any change, whether of political connexion, or of local establishment, that may offer any advantage, or relieve from any distress.
Stran 322 - ... to restore himself to his country, before that country was reduced so low as to be not worth returning to. With this view he had courted the satrap assiduously and successfully. Neither the interest of the Persian empire nor the satrap's • interest were, any more than his own, the same with that of Lacedajmon or the Peloponnesian confederacy.
Stran 335 - ... pay, and be entirely on terms of hostility with the Peloponnesians, fearing lest, if they should be in want of support for so many ships, unbalanced oligarchy, the most adverse of all constitutions to that supremacy of one person which he had, like many others before him, enjoyed under the democracy, and which it was certainly his purpose to regain. Neither he, nor probably any other, had supposed that the democracy could have been overthrown, and such a government established on its ruin, by...
Stran 170 - ... weaker states, risk our own subjection to a foreign dominion. I will then detain you no longer than to observe, that the command which we possess of the sea, and the party of which we are assured in Sicily, will sufficiently enable us to keep what we may acquire, and sufficiently ensure means of retreat if we should fail of our purpose ; so that, with much to hope, we have, from any event of the proposed expedition, little to fear. I am therefore firmly of opinion that your decree for it ought...