Universal History, from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth CenturyJ. Murray, 1839 - World history |
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Page 153 - Greek colonies towards wealth and greatness seems accordingly to have been very rapid. In the course of a century or two, several of them appear to have rivalled, and even to have surpassed their mother cities. Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, Tarentum and Locri in Italy, Ephesus and Miletus in Lesser Asia, appear by all accounts to have been at least equal to any of the cities of ancient Greece.
Page 46 - The appointed heralds still the noisy bands, And form a ring, with sceptres in their hands : On seats of stone, within the sacred place, The reverend elders nodded o'er the case; Alternate, each the attesting sceptre took, And rising solemn, each his sentence spoke.
Page 154 - ... cultivated as early, and to have been improved as highly in them, as in any part of the mother country. The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remarkable, not in ancient Greece, but the one in an Asiatic, the other in an Italian colony.
Page 153 - THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Page 153 - The colonists carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to what can grow up of its own accord in the course of many centuries among savage and barbarous nations. They carry out with them too the habit of subordination, some notion of the regular government which takes...
Page 46 - Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show. There in the forum swarm a numerous train ; The subject of debate, a townsman slain : One pleads the fine dischargM, which one denied, And bade the public and the laws decide...
Page 4 - FACTS of the world, and to survey the extent of man's powers and the true logic of knowledge. He is led to see more perfectly that chain which joins effects to causes; to view the gradual progress of manners, the advancement of man from barbarism to civilization, and thence to refinement and corruption; to note the connection of States and Empires ; and, above all, to realize the greatest benefit of History— its utility AS A SCHOOL OF MORALS.
Page 128 - The ceremonies of initiation were preceded by sacrifices, prayers, and ablutions. The candidates were exercised in trials of secrecy, and prepared by vows of continence ; every circumstance was contrived to render the act as awful and striking as possible ; the initiation was performed at midnight, and the candidate was taken into an interior sacristy of the temple, with a myrtle garland on his head; here he was examined, if he had duly performed his stated ablutions ; clean hands, a pure heart,...
Page 152 - The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction.
Page 129 - ... of the shrines and images, accompanied with voices in concert, dancings, and music : at other times, during the darkness, severities were exercised upon the initiated by persons unseen : they were dragged to the ground by the hair of their heads, and there beaten and lashed, without knowing from whom the blows proceeded, or why they were inflicted : lightnings and thunderings and dreadful apparitions were occasionally played off, with every invention to terrify and astonish : at length, upon...