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... as must be indispensably sup posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...p wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...nal. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or indeed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ... brings to our view the alterations brought about by two centuries, in the Greek language, the coined money, the habits of writing and reading, the de... ...r they thus afford us an insight into the anti historical character of the Greeks, enabling us to trace the subsequent forward march of the nation, an... ...oe. ’Tis past and Jove decrees he shall remove; Gods as we are, we are but slaves to Jove. Go then he must (he must, if he ordain, T ry all those dang... ...grace his bed; Even when keen winter freezes in the skies, Rank’d with his slaves, on earth the monarch lies: Deep are his sighs, his visage pale, his... ...ate expect; Domestic woes far heavier to be borne! The pride of fools, and slaves’ insulting scorn? But thou be silent, nor reveal thy state; Yield to... ...ir several sties, With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries. Then to the slaves: “Now from the herd the best Select in honour of our foreign guest: ...

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...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...eir own gates, and the rest within yielded up themselves and were sold for slaves. This action made Sertorius highly renowned throughout all Spain, an... ...entreated Cinna to use his power more moderately. And in the end, when the slaves whom Marius had freed at his landing to increase his army, being mad... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... ...r to our destruction, hoping to enjoy our liberty, and have made ourselves slaves of our own accord, and are become the contemptible guards and attend... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ...ting it to his singular good-na- ture, that having it in his power to make slaves of their chil- dren, and outrage their wives, he forbore and spared ... ...ne had made versatile, he at last put his men in array, and encouraged the Greeks and barbarians; as for the phalanx and the Argyraspids, they encoura... ... man of them might ever come to Macedon, or so much as within sight of the Greek sea. 50 V olume Two COMP COMP COMP COMP COMPARISON OF SER ARISON OF ...

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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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...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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...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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...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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...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ...ne by the Romans, who much esteemed them, and Pliny relates that they sent slaves from Ostia to Rome, who carried on their heads fish which he 44 The... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ...be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent... ...rd act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess, — will she be here?” “No, you will be deprived of that plea... ...ctate to a master.” “Come; you are joking yourself now. Are there any more slaves to be had who bear this beautiful name?” “Undoubtedly.” “Really , co... ... to converse with him?” Monte Cristo turned to Albert. “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, my dear... ...d turning pale at the mere remembrance of the scene, “in this long file of slaves and women only half-aroused from sleep, or at least so they appeared... ...himself — at the first signal given by my father. I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, ...

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...e the hopping of fleas harnessed to paste- board cars, the spitefulness of slaves, often visited on the minister himself. With all this were the reall... ... was standing erect and rigid on his two legs, held well together like the Greek hermae. This functionary waited near the fire- 36 Bureaucracy place ... ...- lieved in nothing, neither in France, nor in God, nor in art, nor in the Greeks, nor in the T urks, nor in the monarchy,— insulting and disparaging ... ...t the tyrannies of Baudoyer as ex- ercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that of- fice. His name was Fleury. He boldly subscribed to an op... ...dismally]. “Disgusting business! I don’t see why we should be treated like slaves because the government gives us four francs and sixty-five centimes ... ...he game, and he saw that the man who was shuffling his cards for him was a Greek of the first order. T o dictate in this way through two opposing news... ...and children; they are a conglomeration of Arabs, Jews, Genoese, Genevese, Greeks, Lombards, and Parisians, suckled by a wolf and born of a T urkish w...

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...phet of Mecca. These alternatives indeed had been offered to the unwarlike Greeks and Syr- ians; but in contending with the Western Christians, ani- m... ...tire; the affection thou flingest among thy enslaved wives and half-wedded slaves is worthless, comparatively, as the sparkling shivers of the broken ... ...ood vow fealty and devotion, thou wouldst loathe for ever the poor sensual slaves who form thy haram. The beauty of our fair ones gives point to our s... ...nd of miracle.” 34 The Talisman “Nazarene,” said the Moslem, “in this the Greeks and Syr- ians have much belied us, seeing we do but after the word o... ...e power of the bloodthirsty tyrant was at its height, the band of ravening slaves whom he had sent forth to purvey victims for his daily 44 The Talis... ...ht min- ister to the convenience of true Christians. Thus we lawfully make slaves of heathen captives. Again,” proceeded the prel- ate, “there is no d... ...f his hands, which was instantly answered by the ap- pearance of two black slaves. He gave them his orders in Arabic, received the answer that “to hea... ...oots. On their heads were straight up- right caps, similar to those of the Greeks; and they carried small round targets, bows and arrows, scimitars, a... ...l. Having first carefully put his green turban out of sight, and assumed a Greek cap in its stead, he requited the Norman minstrel’s music with a drin...

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... with sights of horror sufficient to terrify minds which were not absolute slaves to the passion of fear; but so great is the force of habit, that wha... ...fy any the least unnecessary expence. Simply to be poor, says my favourite Greek historian, was not held scandal- ous by the wise Athenians, but highl... ... Fielding familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty... ...tty good mistress of the Latin language, and had made some progress in the Greek. I believe, madam, I have formerly acquainted you, that learn- ing wa... ...lockhead. He did not, perhaps, imagine that a competent share of Latin and Greek would make his son either a pedant or a coward. He considered likewis... ...and, if Rabelais was his master, I think he proves the truth of the common Greek proverb—that the scholar is often superior to the master. As to Cerva...

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...ce had expired and he was about to sail for Constantinople, taking all his slaves with him, the case of Cervantes was critical. He was already on boar... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...d just uttered so beautiful a sentiment as that “it is a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and Nature made free,” should be ungratefully pelt... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ...swords, and as soon as Sancho saw them he said: “That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by force of the king’s orders.” “How by f... ...to such persons, but punishing them for their crimes.” The chain of galley slaves had by this time come up, and Don Quixote in very courteous language... ... Lucretia come up to her, nor any other of the famous women of times past, Greek, Barbarian, or Latin; and let each say what he will, for if in this I... ...apient foretold it, who likewise left it declared in writing in Chaldee or Greek characters (for I cannot read them), that if this predicted knight, a...

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...its way to be buried at Segovia; a third says the liberation of the galley slaves is the best of all, and a fourth that nothing comes up to the affair... ...ing from the Holy Brotherhood after that unlucky ad- venture of the galley slaves, and the other of the corpse that was going to Segovia, my master an... ...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ...nes that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower of stakes that... ...eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found... ...is reason: the great poet Homer did not write in Latin, be- cause he was a Greek, nor did Virgil write in Greek, because he was a Latin; in short, all... ...at he was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions. All this was Greek or gibberish to the peasants, but not so to the students, who very so... ...th them after the fashion of those who set free and get rid of their black slaves when they are old and useless, and, turning them out of their houses... ... their town exulting; and had they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have erected a trophy on the spot. CHAPTER XXVIII Of mat...

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...llen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW A... ... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ...rs, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white ... ...uite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles’s shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestive... ... not, concerning this I long remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that antique Crockett and Kit Carson—that brawny doer of... ... of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to t... ... on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels. T...

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...ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, S... ...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ...ers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow white ... ...uite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles’s shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestive... ... not, concerning this I long remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that an tique Crockett and Kit Carson — that brawny doe... ... of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to t... ... on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels. T...

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... and quacks that weren’t fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon Br... ... a table, and the pupil’s progress in each was marked by the professor. In Greek Georgy was pro- nounced aristos, in Latin optimus, in French tres bie... ...iet, and appear abroad with cheerful faces as if they felt nothing. Tender slaves that they are, they must needs be hypocrites and weak. From her chai... ...Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks— muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom. Il. A. 2). The selfishness of the l... ...thene House, 24 April, 1827 “Think of him writing such a hand, and quoting Greek too, at his age,” the delighted mother said. “Oh, William,” she added...

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...BLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 15... ...ght in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses. 19 Wherefore, going up to the steward of the ho... ...ld not be numbered. 10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, ... ...e, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass. 14 From the house of Thogorma they brought hor... ...the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the rst ... ...rince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming. 21 But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of... ... Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far o from their own country. 7 Behold,... ...t thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary. Prophecy of... ...nd he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. 12 In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they pers...

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...rovident imagination. Where have you been reading about galleys and galley-slaves?” “Nowhere that I remember. I row a little when I get the chance. Bu... ...r of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Mu... ...he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremely corrupt Greek on the part” —here he glared at me with intention— “of an extremely i... ...e the most marvel- ous tale in the world, nothing less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself. Small wonder that his dream- ing ha... ...rstand metempsychosis, and a sound commer- cial education does not include Greek. He would supply m~here I capered among the dumb gods of Egypt and la... ...e from the north; they said so in the galley when he looked for rowers—not slaves, but free men. Afterward— years and years afterward—news came from ... ... Charlie had spoken nothing that might not lie within the experiences of a Greek galley-slave. But now, or there was no virtue in books, he had talked...

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...ts earliest critics fitly called it a German “Iliad”, for, like this great Greek epic, it goes back to the remotest times and unites the monumental fr... ...rs of the sixth century. It may have been introduced by German traders, by slaves captured by the Northmen on their frequent marauding expeditions, or... ...they met the lady, they rode along in lordly wise. Of the Russians and the Greeks there rode there many a man. The right good steeds of the Poles and ...