Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great BritainC. P. Wayne, 1806 - 335 σελίδες Plutarch takes notice of a very remarkable law of Solon's,1 "which declared every man infamous, who, in any sedition or civil dissension in the state, should continue neuter, and refuse to side with either party." Aulus Gellius,2 who gives a more circumstantial detail of this uncommon law, affirms the penalty to be "no less than confiscation of all the effects, and banishment of the delinquent." Cicero mentions the same law to his friend Atticus,3 and even makes the punishment capital, though he resolves at the same time not to conform to it under his present circumstances, unless his friend should advise him to the contrary. Which of these relators has given us the real penalty annexed to this law by Solon, is scarce worth our inquiry. But I cannot help observing, that strange as this law may appear at first sight, yet if we reflect upon the reasons of it, as they are assigned by Plutarch and A. Gellius, it will not appear unworthy of that great legislator. |
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Σελίδα viii
... Greece , Carthage , and Rome . I saw with admira- tion the profound wisdom and sagacity , the unwearied labour and disinterested spirit of those amiable and generous men , who contributed most towards forming those states , and settling ...
... Greece , Carthage , and Rome . I saw with admira- tion the profound wisdom and sagacity , the unwearied labour and disinterested spirit of those amiable and generous men , who contributed most towards forming those states , and settling ...
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... Greece were at first mon- archical , * and seem to owe their liberty rather to the injudicious oppressions of their respective kings , than to any natural propensity in the people to alter their form of government . But as they had ...
... Greece were at first mon- archical , * and seem to owe their liberty rather to the injudicious oppressions of their respective kings , than to any natural propensity in the people to alter their form of government . But as they had ...
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... which they were soon to be initiated . * Lycurgus was the first who collected the entire works of Homer ; which he brought into Greece out of Asia - Minor . When arrived at the age of seven years , they ANCIENT REPUBLICKS .
... which they were soon to be initiated . * Lycurgus was the first who collected the entire works of Homer ; which he brought into Greece out of Asia - Minor . When arrived at the age of seven years , they ANCIENT REPUBLICKS .
Σελίδα 11
... Greece as divine and infallible . But the greatest difficulty he had to encounter was to procure the equal partition of the lands . The very first pro- posal met with so violent an opposition from the men of fortune , that a fray ensued ...
... Greece as divine and infallible . But the greatest difficulty he had to encounter was to procure the equal partition of the lands . The very first pro- posal met with so violent an opposition from the men of fortune , that a fray ensued ...
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... Greece for discipline and reputation full five hundred years , by strictly adhering to the laws of Lycurgus ; which not one of their kings ever in- fringed for fourteen successions quite down to the reign of the first Agis . For he will ...
... Greece for discipline and reputation full five hundred years , by strictly adhering to the laws of Lycurgus ; which not one of their kings ever in- fringed for fourteen successions quite down to the reign of the first Agis . For he will ...
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Σελίδα 261 - The several and various characters he sustained in his life and writings, habituated him to feign and dissemble his opinions. He may be considered as an orator, a statesman, a philosopher, characters all equally personated ; and no one more the real man than the other, but each of them taken up and laid down for the occasion. This appears from the numerous inconsistencies found in him throughout the course of his sustaining them.
Σελίδα 243 - Etenim quum artifex ejusmodi sit ut solus dignus videatur esse qui in scena spectetur, turn vir ejusmodi est ut solus dignus videatur qui eo non accédât. Verumtamen, quid si, inquit, habes ejusmodi caussam ut hoc tibi planum sit faciendum...
Σελίδα vii - To promote the publick good of the community of which we are born members, in proportion to our situation and abilities, is our secondary duty as men and citizens. I judged therefore a close attention to the study of history the most useful way of employing that time which my country recess afforded, as it would...
Σελίδα 185 - ... which extinguishes public virtue, and puts a final period to liberty. Thus the Assyrian empire sunk under the arms of Cyrus with his poor but hardy Persians. The extensive and opulent empire of Persia fell an easy prey to Alexander and a handful of Macedonians. And the Macedonian empire, when enervated by the luxury of Asia, was compelled to receive the yoke of the victorious Romans. The descendants of the heroes, philosophers, orators, and free citizens of Greece are now the slaves of the Grand...
Σελίδα xii - Truth will ever be unpalatable to those who are determined not to relinquish error, but can never give offence to the honest and well-meaning: for the plaindealing remonstrances of a friend differ as widely from the rancour of an enemy, as the friendly probe of a surgeon from the dagger of an assassin.
Σελίδα 335 - ... in his researches after even the vestiges of her ruins. . . . And Rome, the mistress of the universe, which once contained whatever was esteemed great or brilliant in human nature, is now sunk into the ignoble seat of whatever is esteemed mean and infamous. . . . Should Faction again predominate and succeed in its destructive views, and the dastardly maxims of luxury and effeminacy universally prevail amongst us, .... such, too, will be the fate of Britain...
Σελίδα 334 - Let us throw but one glance upon the present situation of these once glorious republicks, and we cannot help reflecting upon the final and direful catastrophe, which will eternally result from the prevalence of ambitious and selfish faction supported by corruption. Greece, once the nurse of arts and sciences, the fruitful mother of philosophers, lawgivers and heroes, now lies prostrate under the iron yoke of ignorance and barbarism .... Carthage, once the mighty sovereign of the ocean, and the centre...
Σελίδα i - ... every man infamous who. in any sedition or civil dissension in the State, continued neuter or refused to side with either party.* How different the Romans who, we are somewhere told, had laws enacted to teach them how to make laws.