The Literary Reader: Prose Authors: With Biographical Notices, Critical and Explanatory Notes, EtcHugh George Robinson T. Nelson & Sons, 1867 - 437 páginas |
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... Athenians made peace for themselves and others , out of which the Thebans were excluded - The battle of Leuctra , and beginning of the Theban greatness . The Lacedaemonians were men of great resolution , aud of much gravity in all their ...
... Athenians made peace for themselves and others , out of which the Thebans were excluded - The battle of Leuctra , and beginning of the Theban greatness . The Lacedaemonians were men of great resolution , aud of much gravity in all their ...
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... Athenians did soon agree ; but when the Thebans offered to swear to the articles in the name of the Boeotians , Agesilaus required them to swear in their own name , and to leave the Boeotians free , whom they had lately reduced under ...
... Athenians did soon agree ; but when the Thebans offered to swear to the articles in the name of the Boeotians , Agesilaus required them to swear in their own name , and to leave the Boeotians free , whom they had lately reduced under ...
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... Athenians took upon them to maintain the peace of Greece - New troubles hence arising , Epaminondas invadeth and wasteth the territory of Lacedaemon . The Athenians refusing to take advantage of this overthrow fallen upon their old ...
... Athenians took upon them to maintain the peace of Greece - New troubles hence arising , Epaminondas invadeth and wasteth the territory of Lacedaemon . The Athenians refusing to take advantage of this overthrow fallen upon their old ...
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... Athenians to give them succour . From Corinth and some towns of Peloponnesus they received speedy assistance ; the Athenians came forward more slowly , so that Epaminondas returned without battle , having rebuilt the city of Messene ...
... Athenians to give them succour . From Corinth and some towns of Peloponnesus they received speedy assistance ; the Athenians came forward more slowly , so that Epaminondas returned without battle , having rebuilt the city of Messene ...
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... Athenians , requesting that they themselves might be generals by land . This had been a composition well agreeing with the situa- tion and quality of these two cities ; but it was rejected , because the mariners and others that were to ...
... Athenians , requesting that they themselves might be generals by land . This had been a composition well agreeing with the situa- tion and quality of these two cities ; but it was rejected , because the mariners and others that were to ...
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Página 409 - or judgment . This word, now used in the sense of blame or reproach, originally meant (as its etymology implies) any judgment or opinion, favourable or unfavourable: " Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better
Página 104 - feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint. We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it