 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...out of his body, comforting his friends that lamented his death, and want of issue, by telling them, that the victories of Leuctra and Mantinea were two...every part whereof he so excelled, that he could not but properly be called a wary, a valiant, a politic, a bountiful, or an industrious, and a provident... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 pages
...was bred in that nation of Greece, and hardly to be matched in any age or country ; for he equaled all others in the several virtues which in each of...magnanimity, were no way inferior to his military virtues ; in every part whereof he so excelled, that he could not but properly be called a wary, a... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...them were singular. His justice and sincerity, his temperance, wisdom, and magnanimity, were noway inferior to his military virtue ; in every part whereof...bountiful, or an industrious and a provident captain. Neither was his private conversation unanswerable to those high parts which gave him praise abroad.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...enter at once on what is more worthy of the author. We subjoin his character of Epaminondas : — " So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was...magnanimity, were no way inferior to his military virtues, in every part whereof he so excelled, that he could not but properly be called a wary, a valiant,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...; so shall we still both keep our friends and quietness. O. FELLTHAM 293. CHARACTER OF EPAMINONDAS. So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was...bountiful or an industrious and a provident captain. Neither was his private conversation unanswerable to those high parts which gave him praise abroad.... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1868 - 820 pages
...will not deem over many, since they come from a book which nowadays is ofiener praised than read : " So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was...valiant, a politic, a bountiful, or an industrious and provident captain — all these titles (and many others) being due unto him ; which, with his notable... | |
 | William Rhys Roberts - Voiōtia - 1895 - 112 pages
...Englishmen, Sir Walter Raleigh, agrees with the Roman verdict as to the supreme greatness of Epaminondas. " So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was...bountiful, or an industrious, and a provident captain. Neither was his private conversation unanswerable to those high parts which gave him praise abroad.... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 288 pages
...quotes Raleigh's History of the World, at length and approvingly, on the virtues of an ancient hero: "His justice and sincerity, his temperance, wisdom,...magnanimity, were no way inferior to his military virtues ... he was grave and yet very affable and courteous; resolute in public business, but in his... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - Philosophy - 2006 - 289 pages
...quotes Raleigh's History of the World, at length and approvingly, on the virtues of an ancient hero: "His justice and sincerity, his temperance, wisdom,...magnanimity, were no way inferior to his military virtues ... he was grave and yet very affable and courteous; resolute in public business, but in his... | |
 | 116 pages
...Englishmen, Sir Walter Raleigh, agrees with the Roman verdict as to the supreme greatness of Epaminondas. " So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was...bountiful, or an industrious, and a provident captain. Neither was his private conversation unanswerable to those high parts which gave him praise abroad.... | |
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So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was bred in that nation of Greece, and hardly to be matched in any age or country ; for he equalled all others in the several virtues, which in each of them were singular. His justice and sincerity, his... 