 | 1881 - 564 pages
...fluent, accurate, and harmonious English. A short specimen will suffice to show this (chap. 41)— To sum up; I say that Athens is the school of Hellas,...varied forms of action with the utmost versatility aml grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and tho assertion is verified by the... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 742 pages
...gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbours not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and...of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his o%vn person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with v,... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 758 pages
...gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbours not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. To sum up : I say that_ 41- Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual In fine, Athenian In his own person... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...gratitude, but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbours not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and...himself to the most varied forms of action with the most versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact ; and the assertion... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 810 pages
...gratitude, but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors, not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom, and in a frank and fearless spirit To sum up, 1 say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - 1889 - 220 pages
...discussion preparatory to action." " We alone do good to our neighbours not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and...spirit. To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Greece, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself... | |
 | 1893 - 268 pages
...virtue, strength, and courage.1 1 " We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit"; Pericles in Thucyciides, II. 40. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Abbot, E. Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens. New... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - 1895 - 360 pages
...discussion preparatory to action. We alone do good to our neighbours not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. . . . Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died ; they could not bear the thought... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...gratitude, but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace.... | |
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To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the most versatility and grace. 
