Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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Pągina 7
... natural vivacity of spirit . It was this which made small ar- mies invincible , and which caused Lycur- gus , Solon and Timoleon to refuse crowns . Their freedom was the work of nature , and the consequence of their original pa ...
... natural vivacity of spirit . It was this which made small ar- mies invincible , and which caused Lycur- gus , Solon and Timoleon to refuse crowns . Their freedom was the work of nature , and the consequence of their original pa ...
Pągina 8
... nature , created for itself an ideal of beauty , which served them , and has been transmitted to us , as a criterion for every work of art . A noble simplici- ty pervades every thing which comes from them . It is this which has made the ...
... nature , created for itself an ideal of beauty , which served them , and has been transmitted to us , as a criterion for every work of art . A noble simplici- ty pervades every thing which comes from them . It is this which has made the ...
Pągina 10
... nature for commerce and industry , afforded them not only a more tranquil life , but also a wider field for refinement , and gave rise to new modes of life . The ancients ascribed to the colonies in Ionia and Asia Minor the character of ...
... nature for commerce and industry , afforded them not only a more tranquil life , but also a wider field for refinement , and gave rise to new modes of life . The ancients ascribed to the colonies in Ionia and Asia Minor the character of ...
Pągina 11
... nature . Sensuality thence became the characteristic of the Grecian religion , in which no other morality could subsist but that which teaches the enjoy- ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on ...
... nature . Sensuality thence became the characteristic of the Grecian religion , in which no other morality could subsist but that which teaches the enjoy- ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on ...
Pągina 12
... nature . Now , since the conception of religion contained nothing but poetical ideas of the origin of the principal phe- nomena of nature , that is , of the divinities 12 GREEK LITERATURE .
... nature . Now , since the conception of religion contained nothing but poetical ideas of the origin of the principal phe- nomena of nature , that is , of the divinities 12 GREEK LITERATURE .
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Pągina 128 - St. John's Palace, an ancient house in Wells Street, is believed to have been the residence of the prior of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. Pop. 60,000. — Hackney-coaches took their name from this parish. HADDINQTON, or KAST-LOTHIAW, had' -ding -ton, a county of Scotland, bounded E.