| Ann Murry - 1835 - 264 pages
...rejected. Lord George. Lycurgus must have been a ver^ clever man to make such excellent laws. Mentoria. To prevent magnificence in their houses he ordained...have appeared unsuitable to the rest of the dwelling. The Spartan children were considered as a public concern, from whom legislators and heroes were to... | |
| Plutarch - 1859 - 464 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained, that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
| Plutarch - 1880 - 626 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
| Plutarch - 1883 - 570 pages
...leveled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
| Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - 592 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. . . . »»»*»»» In order to the good education of their youth (which, as I said... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 pages
...levelled against Ixury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that "Treason and a dinner like this... | |
| Plutarch - 1921 - 582 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
| Plutarch - 1914 - 592 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
| 1915 - 730 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that "Treason and a dinner like this... | |
| Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore - 1915 - 734 pages
...levelled against luxury and expensiveness, for by it it was ordained that the ceilings of their houses should only be wrought by the axe, and their gates and doors smoothed only by the saw. Epaminondas's famous dictum about his own table, that " Treason and a dinner like... | |
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