The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... Lycurgus in Lacedæmo- nia . In forming the constitution Lycurgus had as much respect to the business of war as he had to in- ternal and political institutions . With this view he proscribed all kinds of luxury , all the arts of elegance ...
... Lycurgus in Lacedæmo- nia . In forming the constitution Lycurgus had as much respect to the business of war as he had to in- ternal and political institutions . With this view he proscribed all kinds of luxury , all the arts of elegance ...
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... Lycurgus continued at the head of the government , he instituted a senate , composed of twenty - eight members , whose policy chiefly consisted in siding with the kings , when the people was grasping at too much power ; and , on the ...
... Lycurgus continued at the head of the government , he instituted a senate , composed of twenty - eight members , whose policy chiefly consisted in siding with the kings , when the people was grasping at too much power ; and , on the ...
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... Lycurgus boldly resolved to give them a share in those lands of which , by dissipation and other causes , they had been deprived . To keep the people in plenty , but in a state of entire dependence , appears to have been one of the most ...
... Lycurgus boldly resolved to give them a share in those lands of which , by dissipation and other causes , they had been deprived . To keep the people in plenty , but in a state of entire dependence , appears to have been one of the most ...
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... Lycurgus's looking back , beat out one of his eyes ; the legislator immediately stopt , and showing his face covered with blood , the people were at once so struck with their own ingratitude and his danger , that , with one consent ...
... Lycurgus's looking back , beat out one of his eyes ; the legislator immediately stopt , and showing his face covered with blood , the people were at once so struck with their own ingratitude and his danger , that , with one consent ...
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Page 243 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 139 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 327 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Page 15 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 79 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 175 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 228 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 244 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Page 375 - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
Page 374 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.