The Whole Works of Xenophon

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Pàgina 529 - Are not these eyelids provided as it were with a fence on the edge of them, to keep off the wind and guard the eye ? Even the eyebrow itself is not without its office, but, as a penthouse, is prepared to turn off the sweat, which falling from the forehead might enter and annoy that no less tender than astonishing part of us. Is it not to be admired that the ears should take in sounds of every sort, and yet are not too much filled by them ? That the fore-teeth of the animal should be formed in such...
Pàgina 321 - His scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Pàgina 251 - Sea !' and cheering one another. At this they all began to run, the rear-guard as well as the rest ; and the beasts of burden and horses were driven forward. When they were all come up to the top of the mountain, they embraced one another, and also their generals and captains, with tears in their eyes...
Pàgina 118 - He is dead, therefore," said she, " without reproach, and I, who urged him on, sit here alive !" Cyrus, shedding tears for some time in silence, then spoke, " He has died, woman, the noblest death ; for he has died victorious ! do you adorn him with these things that I furnish you with. (And Gobryas and Gadatas were then come up, and had brought rich ornaments in great abundance with them.) Then...
Pàgina 106 - I think that we both lie under great obligations to Cyrus that, when I was a captive and chosen out for himself, he thought fit to treat me neither as a slave nor indeed as a woman of mean account, but he took and kept me for you as if I were his brother's wife. Besides when Araspes who was my guard went away from him, I promised him that if he would allow me to send for you, you would come to him, and approve yourself a much better and more faithful friend than Araspes.
Pàgina 529 - I think of them," answered Aristodemus, " as so many regular operations of the same great and wise Artist, deliberately determining: to preserve what he hath once made.
Pàgina 518 - Socrates, therefore, esteemed all those as no other than madmen who, excluding the Deity, referred the success of their designs to nothing higher than human prudence. He likewise thought those not much better who had recourse to divination on every occasion, as if a man was to consult the oracle whether he should give the reins of his chariot into the hands of one ignorant or...
Pàgina 587 - Euthydemus, the sun which seemeth, as it were, set forth to the view of all men, yet sufFereth not itself to be too curiously examined ; punishing those with blindness who too rashly venture so to do ; and those ministers of the gods, whom they employ to execute their bidding, remain to us invisible ; for, though the thunderbolt is shot from on high, and breaketh in pieces whatever...
Pàgina 529 - But since there are many things, some of which we can easily see the use of, while we cannot say of others to what purpose they were produced, which of these, Aristodemus, do you suppose the work of wisdom ? — It should seem the most reasonable to affirm it of those, whose fitness and utility are so evidently apparent.
Pàgina 531 - As therefore, among men, we make best trial of the affection and gratitude of our neighbour by showing him kindness, and discover his wisdom by consulting him in his distress, do thou in like manner behave towards the gods; and, if thou wouldst experience what their wisdom and what their love, render thyself deserving the communication of some of those divine secrets which may not be penetrated by man, and are imparted to those alone who consult, who adore, who obey the Deity. Then...

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