 Much that is excellent and divine,' says he,1 'does Athens seem to me to have produced and added to our life, but nothing better than those Mysteries, by which we are formed and moulded from a rude and savage state to humanity ; and indeed in the Mysteries...  Rambles and Studies in Greece - Pàgina 153per John Pentland Mahaffy - 1876 - 321 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Cox - 1877 - 286 pàgines
...Legg, ii. 14, § 36) has a memorable passage on the Mysteries : " Much that is excellent and divine does Athens seem to me to have produced and added...only to live happily, but to die with a fairer hope." Commenting on this passage Mr Mahaffy asks what it was that gave these celebrated Mysteries, the greater... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1892 - 690 pàgines
...Cicero, who was of the initiated himself, a man of wide culture and of a skeptical turn of mind — even Cicero speaks of it as the great product of the culture...but to die with a fairer hope." These are the words 1 De Legg., n. 14, ? 36. of a man writing, as I have said, in the days of the ruin and prostration... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1892 - 528 pàgines
...and indeed in the Mysteries we perceive the real principles of life, and 1 De Legg., II. 14, §36. learn not only to live happily, but to die with a...wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,1 of Pindar,2 of Sophocles,3 of Aristophanes,4 of Plato,5 of Isocrates,6 of Chrysippus?" Every... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1892 - 530 pàgines
...indeed in the Mysteries we perceive the real principles of life, and 1 De Legg., II. 14, §36learn not only to live happily, but to die with a fairer...wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,1 of Pindar,2 of Sophocles,3 of Aristophanes,4 of Plato,5 of Isocrates,6 of Chrysippus?7 Every... | |
 | 1918 - 550 pàgines
...Goths under Alaric, AD 369, the Eleusinian Mysteries taught, as Cicero, one of the initiated, has said, "not only to live happily, but to die with a fairer hope." Mid-day is not the time to visit such a spot; but some quiet afternoon drive out from Athens along... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1905 - 172 pàgines
...nothing better than these mysteries, by which we are formed and moulded from a rude and savage life into humanity; and indeed in the mysteries we perceive...only to live happily, but to die with a fairer hope." How far these sublime ideas may reach into modern life, with what vicissitudes, under what difficulties,... | |
 | Irene Weir - 1905 - 390 pàgines
...from a rude and savage life to humanity; and indeed, in the Mysteries we perceive the real principle of life, and learn not only to live happily but to die with a fairer hope."1 1 De Legg., II, 14, § 36. CHAPTER I A BRIEF HISTORY OF GREEK PAINTING Two sources of knowledge:... | |
 | 1898 - 980 pàgines
...than these mysteries, by which we are formed and moulded from a rude savage life to humanity. In them we perceive the real principles of life, and learn...to live happily, but to die with a fairer hope."* Sursumcorda! Thoughts * Mahaffy's "Social Life in Greece.1' THE GENIUS OF DEATH (British MuiClim) 408... | |
 | Francis Greenleaf Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery Allinson - 1909 - 552 pàgines
...the most gifted among the Greeks. The often quoted statement of Cicero, that initiation taught men not only to live happily but to die with a fairer hope, only repeats what was said by his literary master, Isocrates : " Those who have participated in the... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1913 - 472 pàgines
...nothing better than those Mysteries, by which we are formed and moulded from a rude and savage state to humanity ; and indeed in the Mysteries we perceive...wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,1 of Pindar,2 of Sophocles,3 of Aristophanes,4 of Plato,6 of Isocrates,6 of Chrysippus ? 7 Every... | |
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