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...l not for ever on this fairest world Shake pestilence and war, or that his slaves With blasphemy for prayer, and human blood For sacrifice, before his... ...clime: _425 There man was long the train-bearer of slaves, The mimic of surrounding misery, The jackal of ambition’s lion-rage... ... of ig- norance and misery, because a nation of men who had been dupes and slaves for centuries were incapable of conducting themselves with the wisdo... ... sophisms, in favour of that contempt for vir- tue which is the portion of slaves, and that faith in portents, the most fatal substitute for benevolen... ...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...ime majesty of Aeschylus filled him with wonder and delight. The father of Greek tragedy does not possess the pathos of Sophocles, nor the variety and... ... of creation—such as we know them, instead of such as they appeared to the Greeks. Maternal Earth, the mighty parent, is superseded by the Spirit of t...

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...understand the nature of a general definition, he answers in the spirit of a Greek gentleman, and in the words of a poet, ‘that virtue is to delight i... ...his latent knowledge is further proved by the interrogation of one of Meno’s slaves, who, in the skilful hands of Socrates, is made to acknowledge som... ...ances of his life. Plato is silent about his treachery to the ten thou sand Greeks, which Xenophon has recorded, as he is also silent about the crime... ...time to acquire them. This is proved by an experiment tried on one of Meno’s slaves, from whom Socrates elic its truths of arithmetic and geometry , ... ...m and extend far beyond them, just as the mind is prior to the senses. Early Greek speculation culminates in the ideas of Plato, or rather in the sing... ...ut not yet taken out of their armoury. They were the late birth of the early Greek philosophy , and were the only part of it which has had an unin te... ...ay demonstrate on him. MENO: Certainly . Come hither , boy . SOCRATES: He is Greek, and speaks Greek, does he not? MENO: Y es, indeed; he was born in ... ...ble possessions if they are at liberty , for they will walk off like runaway slaves; but when fas tened, they are of great value, for they are really...

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...much before hand may be Epistl’d; that Chorus is here introduc’d after the Greek manner, not antient only but modern, and still in use among the It... ...fame. The measure of Verse us’d in the Chorus is of all sorts, call’d by the Greeks Monostrophic, or rather Apolelymenon, without regard had to Str... ...his great Deliverer now, and find him 40 Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke; Yet stay, let me not... ...es derision, Captive, Poor, and Blind Into a Dungeon thrust, to work with Slaves? Alas methinks whom God hath chosen once To worthiest deed, i... ...ON Agonistes. Milton Into the common Prison, there to grind 1160 Among the Slaves and Asses thy comrades, As good for nothing else, no better serv...

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...yet green wounds, Have voices, tongues to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them ver... ... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ... It is as well to think so, now and then; ‘T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are d... ...hat Turkish trade, By which, no doubt, a good deal may be made. He was a Greek, and on his isle had built (One of the wild and smaller Cyclade... ...nd woke her maid so early that she grumbled, And call’d her father’s old slaves up, who swore In several oaths Armenian, Turk, and Greek ... ...r pride: An ivory inlaid table spread with state Before them, and fair slaves on every side; Gems, gold, and silver, form’d the service mostly... ...y own the burning tear drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep, Where nothin...

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...ea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the public mi... ..., they were all of them born to the doom of slavery, some of them remained slaves until adult age, yet they all have not only won equality to their wh... ... and agoniz- ing sympathy with his embruted, crushed and bleeding fel- low slaves, and an extraordinary depth of passion, together with that rare alli... ...has since en- tered—the advocacy of emancipation by the people who are not slaves. And for this special mission, his plantation edu- cation was better... ...hat the boy who learned to read and write as he did, who taught his fellow slaves these precious acquirements as he did, who plot- ted for their mutua... ...ference, implied by the names, and the peculiar duties of each, were alike Greek to me. Why was not the “off ox” called the “in ox?” Where and what is...

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...er addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the Coll... ... really formidable? Or perhaps he was of the same way of thinking with the Greek poet, of whom Cicero reports this saying: “I do not desire to die; bu... ..., “Surely not; water is the best.” “Ah, yes,” he returned, “doubtless so;—(Greek phrase)—.” He had now become, icy- cold at his extremities, even to h... ...omen, and children, of them to carry away to the number of thirty thousand slaves. 62 Essays: Book the First CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER... ...d neighbours, and all sorts and degrees of men and women, as well as their slaves, cut and slashed their fore- heads in token of sorrow, repeating in ... ...end them when he was dead. In truth, in affairs of the same nature, by the Greek laws, he who made suit to an en- emy for a body to give it burial ren... ...e Arginusian Isles, the most bloody and obstinate engagement that ever the Greeks fought at sea; because (af- ter the victory) they followed up the bl... ...uish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk. And the many peo... ...nsider how many prede- cessors every one of us has had, rich, poor, kings, slaves, Greeks, and barbarians; and though you were the fiftieth descendant...

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...brother. That was only flattery and compliment. Goddesses were only in the Greek mythol- ogy, and were all over long ago!’ ‘But are we really going to... ...od quality. ‘Did he know any languages?’ ‘French, English, Latin, and some Greek.’ ‘And, Madame,’ added Lord Nithsdale, ‘not only is his French much b... ...es of the lagoons, in the carriage to the seaport of Cette, one of the old Greek towns of the Gulf of Lyon, and with a fine harbour full of ships. Mai... ...n her arms. She wore no ornaments, but did not seem to be classed with the slaves who ran about at the com- mands of the elder dame. However, his own ... ...inian, who, though dumb, was the most useful, ready, and alert of his five slaves. Every bargain seemed to occupy at least an hour, and perhaps Yusuf ... ...y heart that the moment of parting was come, he saw indeed the other three slaves busied in making bales of the merchandise; but the master, as well a... ...the night, laddie, I ha tell’t the sheyk;’ and he repeated the same to the slaves in Arabic, dismissing them to hold a parting feast on a lamb stuffed... ...id not like to appear before the French Consul. Mr. Thompson consulted his Greek clerk, and a chest belonging to a captured merchant- man, which had b... ... and thus saved them from undergo- ing vengeance for the sufferings of the Greeks. Thus the good old man felt that he owed a debt of gratitude which A...

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... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...uch concern of your glorious family, of which I am one of the most devoted slaves. I know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by th... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...ising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; and the good... ... hear her chattering as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, French better than any ... ... demon, and has stated the Saracens to have the custom of mutilating their slaves thus, to commit to them the task of guarding their women by an ancie...

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...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... Socialism are, in the abso- lute, absurdities; the one would make men the slaves of the violent or rich, the other the slaves of the State official, ... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ... its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishment. We are ... ...med with just one clear coloured line, as finely placed as the member of a Greek capi- tal; the door handles and the lines of the panels of the door, ... ...ase is good for the world; work as a moral obliga- tion is the morality of slaves, and so long as no one is over- worked there is no need to worry bec... ...ges do not seem to carry conviction; what our ances- tors did, or what the Greeks or Egyptians did, though it is the direct physical cause of the mode... ...sm of Plato in this matter, his insistence upon the natural inferiority of slaves and women, is just the sort of confusion between inherent and impose... ... nature of man. He wanted to have women property just as he wanted to have slaves property, he did not care to ask why, and it distressed his concepti...

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... little, and, secondly, only tell a little of what they know. As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in “sheepskin,” were you to know re... ...ns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek super- stition, and adored for his mildness and benevolence of dispos... ...anaille” would have given way. A king, Sire, is, you know, the greatest of slaves—State affairs of consequence—his Majesty the King of Naples is detai...

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...etent skill in construing Latin, I think also an elemen- tary knowledge of Greek; add ciphering to a small extent, Euclid perhaps in a rather imaginar... ...nt at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages; and in all fields, in the ... ...well, attempt 32 The Life of John Sterling that course. At the same time, Greek and the Greeks being here before him, he could not fail to gather som... ...good; these, and not their inconsiderable or considerable knowledge of the Greek accidence almost at all! What is Greek accidence, compared to Spartan... ...nce, steadfastness, mild stoicism, and other virtues far transcending your Greek accidence. Nor can the unwisest “prescribed course of study” be consi... ...good; but neither is that without its fair features. “So far as I see, the Slaves here are cunning, deceitful and idle; without any great aptitude for...

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...that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, and the devil, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we were to s... ...ge is indispensable for talking. Ali gave me five legitimate wives and ten slaves; that’s equivalent to hav- ing none at all at Janina. In the East, y... ...sents,—diamonds, ten thousand talari, one thousand gold coins, a beautiful Greek girl for groom, a little Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab horse... ... don’t cultivate at all; that’s their style of farming. The T urks and the Greeks, they eat onions or rise. They get opium from poppies, and it gives ... ... in my bal- cony. In the opposite balcony I saw a woman; oh! such a woman! Greek,—that tells all! The most beautiful creature in the town; almond eyes... ... worth a 60 A Start in Life pound of swagger.’” “And such a costume! pure Greek!” continued Schinner. “Conflagration of soul! you understand? Well, I... ... a life so directly against his tastes and his nature. He felt that galley-slaves were happier than he. Galled by the collar of this iron system, wild...

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...“We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, C... ... sin, because the world is bent upon evil. The people of the world are the slaves of the devil. If we are not in the Kingdom of Christ, it is certain ... ...om the Law, from sin and wrath, that you should be free in Christ, and not slaves to the hard laws of Moses. Will you allow yourselves to be carried a... ...ngels of heaven be anathematized than that my gos- pel be overthrown.” The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn. Pau... ...ning around in vain. VERSE 3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. The word “compelled” acquaints us w... ...the mantle of the imitation of Christ. VERSE 28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; fo... ...ed ob- server of the Law of Moses, or whether a person is a noble and wise Greek does not matter. Circumstances, personal worth, character, achievemen... ...ith its ordinances and laws repre- sents Hagar and her offspring. They are slaves to the Law, sin and death. But the heavenly Jerusalem is Sarah, the ... ...uirements. Although the Law has many children, they are not free. They are slaves. As servants they cannot have a share in the inheritance, but are dr...

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...by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as his father had done before him. If in his undergr... ...f course they won’t agree. We’ve got to fight it out. They say we’re their slaves for ever. Have you ever read Lady Bell’s ‘At the Works’? A well-inte... ... Mount Street and Berkeley Square as a sultan might turn to walk among his slaves. But the tonic was only beginning. Before he had gone a dozen steps ... ...as old and shriv- elled up, it was the patched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that... ...f Life, the great Adventure of the earth that will make the atoms our bond-slaves and subdue the stars, that will build up the white fires of ecstasy ... ...idents—just as the severance of an Angli- can from a Roman communion and a Greek orthodox com- munion are temporary accidents. You will remark that wi... ...nsist again upon the eternal persistence of the essential Religious Fact: (Greek Letters Here) (Rev. i. 18. “Fear not. I am the First and Last thing, ... ...a five-pound note, are yet assertions of practically inevitable veracity: (Greek Letters Here) (Phil. i. 6. “He who began... will perfect.” Eph. v. 1...

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...perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing e... ...the infamous costume, the chain, and the brand on the shoulder. The galley-slaves breathed the fresh air of heaven, and saw each other. They were very... ...ay, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek — I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, bu... ... were turned to- wards Athens — it was the fashion to pity and support the Greeks. The French government, without protecting them openly , as you know... ...nose, quite straight, and projecting direct from the brow, was of the pure Greek type, while his teeth, as white as pearls, were set off to admiration... ...t situated on the third row, was a woman of exquisite beauty, dressed in a Greek costume, which evi- dently, from the ease and grace with which she wo... ... one exists.” “Doubtless, but not in the same way; every one has not black slaves, a princely retinue, an arsenal of weapons that would do credit to a... ...good education, and have been treated by these kidnappers very much as the slaves were treated in Asia Minor, whose masters made them grammarians, doc...

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...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ...Julia to death—and at another, upon hearing that Phoebe (one of the female slaves in his household) had hanged herself, he exclaimed audibly,— ”Would ... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...” This caprice vanished like the rest; and he made an effort to enlist the slaves and citizens into his service, and to raise by extortion a large mil... ...e suspicion by calling for better) than that which was ordinarily given to slaves, coarse, black, and, to a palate so luxurious, doubtless disgusting.... ...aply requiting services, or of showing favor, or of acquir- ing influence, slaves had been emancipated in such great multitudes, and afterwards invest... ...their room came Syr- ians, Cappadocians, Phrygians, and other enfranchised slaves from the conquered nations;”—“these in half a century had sunk so lo... ...sleep, “quasi 99 Thomas de Quincey dormiret, spiritum reddidit;” or, as a Greek author expresses it, kat iso hypno to malakotato. He was one of those...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ... With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy sp... ...te, they storm’d the dens and caves, (For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves). 50 What could be free, when lawless beasts obey’d,... ...an: Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish’d 41 from the industrious swa... ... Fools grant whate’er Ambition craves, And men, once ignorant, are slaves. Oh, cursed effects of civil hate, In every age, in every st... ...leon:’ The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P . 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Keep clo... ... but mature the praise: Great friend of liberty! in kings a name Above all Greek, above all Roman fame: Whose word is truth, as sacred and revered, As...

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...portioned to its breadth? 76 Sartor Resartus We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “me- chanically” taught; Hebrew scarce even mechanical... ...is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no s... ...as trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and not ... ...to in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is ... ...that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, a... ..., Ribbonmen, Cottiers, Peep-of-Day Boys, Babes of the Wood, Rockites, Poor-Slaves: which last, however, seems to be the primary and generic name; wher... ...stand, what seems indubitable, that the original Sect is that of the Poor- Slaves; whose doctrines, practices, and fundamental char- acteristics perva... ...ppermost, like a university-cap, with what view is unknown. “The name Poor-Slaves seems to indicate a Slavonic, Polish, or Russian origin: not so, how... ... cottages. “In respect of diet, they have also their observances. All Poor-Slaves are Rhizophagous (or Root-eaters); a few are Ichthyophagous, and use...

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...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi... ... spread far and high; some two ships were burnt, not more; the very galley-slaves ran with buck- ets to quench. These same proud Ships, Ships l’Orient... ...Unconquerable in man, when he stands on his Rights of Man: let Despots and Slaves and all people know this, and only them that stand on the Wrongs of ... ... a thing for what we will call Far-writing without the aid of postbags; in Greek, it shall be named Telegraph.—Telegraphe sacre! answers Citoyenism: F... ...ons and Mother Society. Is not here a pretty enough third-act of a natural Greek Drama; catastrophe more uncertain than ever? The hasty Convention rus...

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..., the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with presents at Del... ...ms who would accept them. The Scythian women put out the eyes of all their slaves and prisoners of war, that they might have their pleasure of them, a... ...to flag and languish under you, and there Latin steps in to its relief, as Greek does to others. Of some of these words I have just picked out we do n... ...re not so, engage ourselves in so stirring and violent an affair, that en- slaves us to others, and renders us contemptible to ourselves.” He said tru... ...seen. Why did not so noble a conquest fall under Alexander, or the ancient Greeks and Romans; and so great a revolution and mutation of so many empire... ...s, the arts of this part of the world, in what was necessary, but also the Greek and Roman virtues, with those that were original of the coun- try? Wh... ...having only, by inten- tion, saved so many as they meant to make miserable slaves of, for the work and service of their mines; so that many of the cap... ...r Gascons in Sicily; I have left enough of them at home; I rather seek for Greeks and Persians; they are the men I endeavour to be acquainted with and... ... and their immeasurable self-conceit. AEsop was set to sale with two other slaves; the buyer asked the first of these what he could do; he, to en- han...