 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...our opinion, not discussion, but the want of that knowledge which may be gained by discussion. "We do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit." From the oration of Pericles, 450 BC, as... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 742 pages
...of these men, for they made her great. who confers a favour is the firmer friend, because he BC 43" would fain by kindness keep alive the memory of an...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... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 758 pages
...by receiving favours. Now he II. who confers a favour is the firmer friend, because he BC 43*would fain by kindness keep alive the memory of an 'obligation...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... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1883 - 732 pages
...city 1s the praise of these men, for they made her great. who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...neighbors 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 Athens is the school... | |
 | William Pittenger - Oratory - 1883 - 290 pages
...our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...neighbors 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 Athens is the school... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...friends by conferring, not by receiving favours. Now he who confers a favour is the firmer friend, because he would fain, by kindness, keep alive the...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... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 344 pages
...our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...neighbors, 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 Athens is the school... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1892 - 334 pages
...our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...neighbors, 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 Athens is the school... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1892 - 988 pages
...onr friends by conferring, not by receiving, favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...knows that in requiting another's generosity he will uot be winning gratitude, but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors, not upon a calculation... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1892 - 1142 pages
...onr friends by conferring, not by receiving, favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory...because he knows that in requiting another's generosity ho will not be winning gratitude, but only payiug a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors, not upon... | |
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Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would fain by kindness keep alive the memory of an obligation ; but the recipient is colder in his feelings, because he knows that in requiting another's generosity he will not be winning gratitude... 
