This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... the archonship, considering that such a person cannot piously perform the sacrifices offered for the country, or discharge any other duty with propriety and justice. Indeed, if any one does not keep up the sepulchers of his dead parents, the state inquires into it in the examination of candidates for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... the archonship, considering that such a person cannot piously perform the sacrifices offered for the country, or discharge any other duty with propriety and justice. Indeed, if any one does not keep up the sepulchers of his dead parents, the state inquires into it in the examination of candidates for office. You, therefore, my son, if you are wise, will entreat the gods to pardon you if you have been wanting in respect toward your mother, lest, regarding you as an ungrateful person, they should be disinclined to do you good; and you will have regard, also, to the opinion of men, lest, observing you to be neglectful of your parents, they should all condemn you, and you should then be found destitute of friends; for if men surmise that you are ungrateful toward your parents, no one will believe that if he does you a kindness he will meet with gratitude in return." Our readers will be interested in comparing and contrasting Xenophon, as reporter of Socrates, with Plato, hereafter to be presented acting in the same ostensible capacity. III. HOMER. I.--THE ILIAD. II.--THE ODYSSEY. Homer's Iliad is, as every body knows, one of the masterpieces of human genius. It is, indeed, beyond dispute the most famous among poems. The literature that has accumulated in all languages about it makes its pre-eminence permanent and secure. It is hardly possible to imagine any mutations in human affairs, with the uncalculated changes of that different order, short of the new heavens and the new earth, foreshadowed in revelation, that can dislodge the Iliad of Homer from its position as the leading poem of the world. This is here said without any implication intended as to the right of the Iliad to occupy the position. In literature, as in other spheres, often...
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Very Good. First edition. Very good. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, slightly browned text, edges and end pages, cloth covers are slightly worn and rubbed, gold stamped; spine, lightly rubbed on edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York; Chautauqua Press, 1892. First edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 314 pp., 1 p. advertising. A course on Greek literature. Pages moderately foxed. Front hinge cracked, spine brittle. Good condition.
