The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres
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ISBN13: 9780217601528
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Apollo answered, that his laws -were perfect; and that so long as Sparta should observe them, it would be the most glorious city in the world, and enjoy entire felicity. Lycurgus sent this answer to Sparta, and judging his ministry accomplished, he died voluntarily at Delphos, by abstaining from food. He was of opinion, that the death of great men and ministers should not be insignificant or useless to the commonwealth, but a consequence of their administration, one of their most considerable actions, and as honourable, if not more so, than' all the rest of their lives. He thought therefore, to die in this mannerwould be confirming and crowning all the services he had done his fellow-citizens during his life, as his death would oblige them to observe his ordinances for ever, which they had sworn to observe inviolably till his return. The heathen were generally of opinion, that every man had a right to put himself to death, whensoever he pleased. REFLECTIONS UPON THE GOVERNMENT OF SPARTA, AND THE LAWS OF LYCURGUS. I. THINGS LAUDABLE IN THE LAWS OF LYCURGUS. . Were we to judge only by the event, there must have been a large fund of wisdom and prudence in the laws of Lycurgus, since so long as they were observed at Sparta, which was for above five hundred years, that city was so powerful and flourishing. They were, says ] Plutarch, speaking of thelaws of Sparta, less a form of government and civil administration, than the conduct and rules of a wise man, who passes his whole life in the exercises of virtue. Or rather, adds the same author, as the poets feign of Hercules, that with his lion's skin and club only he ran through the world, and purged it of robbers and tyrants; so Ou roAE45 w STrapTij woXiTtgx, aWi po; uo-ziiToS xj o-olpov /?io Sparta Sparta with a t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217601528 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217601529 |
| Weight | 1.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 In |
| List Price | $23.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 390 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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