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Plutarchus Francis Wrangham. W.Ridley sculp . PLUTARCH . 1 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK ; WITH NOTES CRITICAL. Published for J.Mawman , Poultry , & the other Proprietors ; 18 . Feb.1808 .
Plutarchus Francis Wrangham. W.Ridley sculp . PLUTARCH . 1 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK ; WITH NOTES CRITICAL. Published for J.Mawman , Poultry , & the other Proprietors ; 18 . Feb.1808 .
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Plutarchus Francis Wrangham. 1 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK ; WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL , AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH . BY JOHN LANGHORNE , D. D. AND WILLIAM LANGHORNE , A. M. A NEW EDITION , IN SIX VOLUMES , WITH CORRECTIONS ...
Plutarchus Francis Wrangham. 1 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK ; WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL , AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH . BY JOHN LANGHORNE , D. D. AND WILLIAM LANGHORNE , A. M. A NEW EDITION , IN SIX VOLUMES , WITH CORRECTIONS ...
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... Greek . He had care- fully followed that rule , of which no translator ought ever to lose sight , the grand rule of hu- mouring the genius , and maintaining the structure of his own language . For this purpose , he fre- quently broke ...
... Greek . He had care- fully followed that rule , of which no translator ought ever to lose sight , the grand rule of hu- mouring the genius , and maintaining the structure of his own language . For this purpose , he fre- quently broke ...
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... Greek ; some drew from the scholiast's Latin ; and others , more humble , trod scrupulously in the paces of Amyot . Thus copying the idioms of different languages , they proceeded like the work- men at Babel , and fell into a confusion ...
... Greek ; some drew from the scholiast's Latin ; and others , more humble , trod scrupulously in the paces of Amyot . Thus copying the idioms of different languages , they proceeded like the work- men at Babel , and fell into a confusion ...
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... Greek . At the same time it must be observed , that there is frequently a great similarity in the structure of the two languages : yet that resem- blance in some instances makes it the more neces- sary to guard against it on the whole ...
... Greek . At the same time it must be observed , that there is frequently a great similarity in the structure of the two languages : yet that resem- blance in some instances makes it the more neces- sary to guard against it on the whole ...
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Página 108 - By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Página 141 - There were fifteen persons to a table, or a few more or less. Each of them was obliged to bring in monthly a bushel of meal, eight gallons of wine, five pounds of cheese, two pounds and a half of figs, and a little money to buy flesh and fish. If any of them happened to offer a sacrifice of first fruits...
Página 145 - ... possible care of them. He ordered the virgins to exercise themselves in running, wrestling, and throwing quoits and darts ; that their bodies being strong and vigorous, the children afterwards produced from them might be the same ; and that, thus fortified by exercise, they might the better support the pangs of childbirth, and be delivered with safety.
Página 63 - Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done?
Página 18 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Página 136 - Such a provision they thought sufficient for health and a good habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped, and seeing the shocks standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, ' How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!
Página 157 - How shall we best guard against the invasion of an enemy ?" By continuing poor, and not desiring in your possessions to be one above another. And to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls, That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.
Página 285 - From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Página 171 - The governors of the youth ordered the shrewdest of them from time to time to disperse themselves in the country, provided only with daggers and some necessary provisions. In the...
Página 155 - The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order one of the boys to sing a song; to another he put some question which required a judicious answer: for example, Who was the best man in the city? or, What he thought of such an action?