The history of Greece, continued to the death of Alexander the great by R.A. Davenport, Volume 41835 |
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Page 234 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 309 - It was usual at Athens for execution very soon to follow condemnation ; commonly on the morrow. But it happened that the condemnation of Socrates took place on the eve of the day appointed for the sacred ceremony of crowning the galley which carried the annual offerings to the gods worshipped at Delos : and immemorial tradition forbade all executions till the sacred vessel's return. Thus the death of Socrates was respited thirty days, while his friends had free access to him in the prison.
Page 305 - Melitus, son of Melitus, of the borough of Pitthos, declares these upon oath against Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of the borough of Alopece : Socrates is guilty of reviling the gods whom the city acknowledges, and of preaching other new gods : moreover he is guilty of corrupting the youth. Penalty, death.
Page 299 - The scarcity and dearness of books gave high value to that learning, which a man with a well stored mind, and a ready and clear elocution, could communicate. None, without eloquence, could undertake to be instructors; so that the sophists, in giving lessons of eloquence, were themselves the example. They frequented all places of public resort, the...
Page 306 - he taught his ' numerous followers, youths of the principal ' families of the city, to despise the established ' government, and to be turbulent and seditious ; ' and his success had been seen in the conduct ' of two, the most eminent, Alcibiades and ' Critias. Even the best things he converted to ' these ill purposes : from the most esteemed c' *• s- 5«' poets, and particularly from Homer, he selected ' passages to inforce his anti-democratical prin
Page 206 - Athens, to form wharfs and docks, to erect halls, exchanges, warehouses, markethouses, and inns, for all which tolls or rents should be paid, and to build ships to be let to merchants. Thus, while numbers of individuals were encouraged and enabled to employ themselves for their private benefit, the whole Athenian people would become one great banking company, from whose profits every member, it was expected, would derive at least an easy livelihood.
Page 306 - Without this proof indeed we might reasonably believe that, though Socrates was a good and faithful subject of the Athenian government, and would promote no sedition, no political violence, yet he could not like the Athenian constitution. He wished for wholesome changes by gentle means ; and it seems even to have been a principal object of the labours to which he dedicated himself, to infuse principles into the rising generation that might bring about the desirable change insensibly. His scholars...
Page 157 - 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 enable it to trample upon its next inferior. In the scale of subordination, the distance from top to bottom is great ; but the gradation is scarcely perceptible, and the connexion intimate.
Page 307 - ... wealthiest citizens, whose easy circumstances afforded leisure to attend him ; and some of these, zealously adopting his tenets, others merely pleased with the ingenuity of his arguments and the liveliness of his manner, and desirous to emulate his triumphs over his opponents, were forward, after his example, to engage in disputation upon all the subjects on which he was accustomed to discourse. Thus employed and thus followed...
Page 4 - To obviate therefore the extravagances of unbalanced democracy, a new council of elders was created, whose office was to deliberate on all public measures, previously to their being proposed to the general assembly. This indeed was providing for the prudence of executive government^ but not for vigour, not for secrecy, not for dispatch ; qualities which could meet in the Athenian administration only when...