The Method Off Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1804 - Education |
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... carry the sum of ten [ d ] mine , and a whole chamber to lock it up in . Further , he drove all useless and superfluous arts from Sparta , which indeed , if he had not done , most of them must have dropt of themselves , and been lost ...
... carry the sum of ten [ d ] mine , and a whole chamber to lock it up in . Further , he drove all useless and superfluous arts from Sparta , which indeed , if he had not done , most of them must have dropt of themselves , and been lost ...
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... carried off what herbs or victuals they were able ; if they were disco- vered , they were punished for want of skill . It is said , that one of them having stole a young fox , hid it un- der his clothes , and let it tear into his belly ...
... carried off what herbs or victuals they were able ; if they were disco- vered , they were punished for want of skill . It is said , that one of them having stole a young fox , hid it un- der his clothes , and let it tear into his belly ...
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... carrying thither the immense sums of gold and silver he had gained by his victories , and thereby subverting the laws of Lycurgus . This event well deserves to be here taken notice of . [ ] Lysander having got great spoils at the taking ...
... carrying thither the immense sums of gold and silver he had gained by his victories , and thereby subverting the laws of Lycurgus . This event well deserves to be here taken notice of . [ ] Lysander having got great spoils at the taking ...
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... carrying their views or pretensions any farther . In short , the government he had established sufficed to defend the frontiers of Sparta , but was insufficient to give her dominion over other cities . The design of Lycurgus was not to ...
... carrying their views or pretensions any farther . In short , the government he had established sufficed to defend the frontiers of Sparta , but was insufficient to give her dominion over other cities . The design of Lycurgus was not to ...
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... carry this trial so far as the inhuman treatment we have men- tioned ? And was it not brutal and barbarous in the parents to stand unmoved at seeing the blood run [ ] Omnes artes , quibus ætas puerilis ad humanitatem informari Solet ...
... carry this trial so far as the inhuman treatment we have men- tioned ? And was it not brutal and barbarous in the parents to stand unmoved at seeing the blood run [ ] Omnes artes , quibus ætas puerilis ad humanitatem informari Solet ...
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