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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: THEMISTOCLES AND CAMILLUS COMPARED. The lives of Themistocles and Camillas exhibit striking features of resemblance. To their merit both were exclusively indebted for their renown: both distinguished themselves by their brilliant achievements; both rescued their respective countries from the polluting grasp of barbarian invaders; both raised them from their rums, aad were considered as their second founders. At the same trme however we discover, as well in their character as in their conduct, civil, political, and jnifitary, several marked distinctions. Themistocles, born in obscurity, and under all the disadvantages of a very moderate fortune, quickly announced to the world bis high destination. Camillus, though inheriting patrician blood, and consequently placed in the track of honours, derived not much advantage from that circumstance: as, through the depression of hist house's fortunes, he was obliged to owe every thing to the exertion of his own powerful energies. Themistocles, in his early life little elevated above his companions, showed himself negligent of those delicate and polite attentions which, even coupled (as they frequently are) with mediocrity of talent, are so fascinating in general society. Bui he soon displayed a strong faculty of reasoning, profound judgment, and an eminent capacity for the art of governing, His was however a stormy youth, ruffled by those tempests which rise from a boiling spirit, agitated by the passions of that impetuous age. Camillus, an uniform example of hoitour and virtue, began almost from his infancy to cultivate his great natural endowments, and to direct them to the public good. In his very first campaign, made in his fourteenth year, an exploit of extraordinary gallantry points him out to his admiring country, as one in...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458842978 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458842975 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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