University Life in Ancient Athens: Being the Substance of Four Oxford LecturesHarper & brothers, 1877 - 171 pàgines |
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... Soon , indeed , Athens had to stoop from her former rank among the nations ; but she stepped almost at once into another , and became the school not of Greece only , but the world . After a while again she suffered from the rivalry of ...
... Soon , indeed , Athens had to stoop from her former rank among the nations ; but she stepped almost at once into another , and became the school not of Greece only , but the world . After a while again she suffered from the rivalry of ...
Pàgina 6
... soon changed , in the case of the Ephebi , the essen- tial character of her educational routine . 1. The name did not henceforth include the whole rising manhood of the State . All who feared the loss of time or want of means , all who ...
... soon changed , in the case of the Ephebi , the essen- tial character of her educational routine . 1. The name did not henceforth include the whole rising manhood of the State . All who feared the loss of time or want of means , all who ...
Pàgina 38
... soon were in high dudgeon when they heard that the liberty of instruction was thus narrowed , and they resolved to migrate in a body from a city so intolerant of intellectual freedom . Theophrastus , then in the zenith of his fame , and ...
... soon were in high dudgeon when they heard that the liberty of instruction was thus narrowed , and they resolved to migrate in a body from a city so intolerant of intellectual freedom . Theophrastus , then in the zenith of his fame , and ...
Pàgina 39
... soon became D. L. iv . 2 . 10 . Hermo- timus . a recognised thing that , even in the field of science the labourer was worthy of his hire , though so late as the days of Lucian it was thought unworthy of a grave professor to make much ...
... soon became D. L. iv . 2 . 10 . Hermo- timus . a recognised thing that , even in the field of science the labourer was worthy of his hire , though so late as the days of Lucian it was thought unworthy of a grave professor to make much ...
Pàgina 45
... soon returned . with quiet times to the old haunts , and Cicero was surprised to see how little they cared for the havoc that was made ; but philosophy had spent , for a time at least , its force of active speculation , and was living ...
... soon returned . with quiet times to the old haunts , and Cicero was surprised to see how little they cared for the havoc that was made ; but philosophy had spent , for a time at least , its force of active speculation , and was living ...
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