 | Sallust - 1807 - 478 σελίδες
...exertions; some choosing to cultivate their mental faculties, while others relied on bodily vigour. But in that period men led a blameless life; each individual...of negotiations made it evident that the head, and not the sword, is the great engine of war. Were the same attention paid to the affairs of civil government;... | |
 | Sallust - 1807 - 474 σελίδες
...exertions; some choosing to cultivate their mental faculties, while others relied on bodily vigour. But in that period men led a blameless life ; each individual...Greece, began to extend their conquests over cities and natiqns ; when the lust of dominion was a sufficient motive for the desolation of war, and the acquisition... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 660 σελίδες
...exertions; some choosing to cultivate their mental faculties, while others relied on bodily vigour. But in that period men led a blameless life; each individual...of negotiations made it evident that the head, and not the sword, is the great engine of war. Were the same attention paid to the affairs of civil government;... | |
 | Sallust - 1963 - 244 σελίδες
...In those days men had not yet learnt to be covetous: each was content with what he had. It was only when Cyrus* in Asia and the Spartans and Athenians in Greece began to bring cities and nations into subjection, and to engage in wars because they thirsted for power and... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1998 - 1284 σελίδες
...covetousness and each man was well enough pleased with what was his. He then says: 'But afterwards, w the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and f subdue cities and nations and to deem lust for mastery a sufficient reason for war, and to hold that... | |
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And yet we see that in the commencement of royalty (for by that title the first rulers of the world were dignified) the several kings proceeded by different exertions; some choosing to cultivate their mental faculties, while others relied on bodily vigour.... 