 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 758 pages
...citizen does not neglect the state affaire, bebecause he takes care of his own household ; and even no those of us who are engaged in business have a very...idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no °"r s°°dnoss to interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a others useless character... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 316 pages
...our labouring classes 3 have a competent knowledge of politics ; indeed, we are the only Greeks who regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as one who only minds his own business,4 but as a man unfit for any business at all. If we, the people... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1883 - 732 pages
...not neglect the state ^'^10".° because he takes care of his own household ; and even SuffersU6™ those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair (^'fj^est, idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no £"nefr™s the interest in public... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - History - 1885 - 580 pages
...for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because...affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character. . . . " To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 786 pages
...for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the State because...man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and, if few of us are originators, we arc all sound judges of... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 790 pages
...disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the Stale because he takes care of his own household, and even...man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and, if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pages
...for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because...in business have a very fair idea of politics. We aloue regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character.... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 788 pages
...with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen docs not neglect the State because he takes care of his own household, and even those of us who arc engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - History, Ancient - 1886 - 278 pages
...for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because...affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character. . . . " To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - Political science - 1888 - 74 pages
...men, — citizens like those of Athens described by Pericles in his Funeral Oration, of whom he says: "An Athenian citizen does not neglect the State because...even those of us who are engaged in business have a fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless,... | |
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An Athenian citizen does not neglect the State because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as a harmless,... 
