 ... you do them to your own injury, but in so far as you are their masters; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually changing our minds? We forget that a state in which the...  A Historical Geography of the British Colonies - Page 162by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 742 pages
...far as you are their masters ; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually...better off than one in which the laws are good but powerless"1. Dulness and modesty are a more useful combination than cleverness and licence ; and the... | |
 | Thucydides - 1883 - 732 pages
...far as you are their masters ; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually...better off than one in which the laws are good but powerless.4 Dulness and modesty are a more useful combination than cleverness and license ; and the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 456 pages
...so far as you are their masters; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually...than one in which the laws are good but powerless. Dulness and modesty are a more useful combination than cleverness and license; and the more simple... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 pages
...forget that a state buuheques- in which the laws though imperfect are unalterable, is tion was now better off than one in which the laws are good but powerless. Dulness and modesty are a more useful combination than cleverness and licence; and the more simple... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1913 - 654 pages
...among all the nations of the world few, if any, have stood higher as rulers. Men ask to be sure ot those with whom they have to deal, to be confident...and again that a democracy cannot manage an empire '.' 1 Thucydidei, bk, III. chap, xxxvii, Jowett'i translation. It may, The officer who was appointed... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1917 - 456 pages
...Peloponnesian allies at Sparta. The other side is given in a speech made by an Athenian at Athens. " We forget that a state in which the laws, though imperfect,...than one in which the laws are good but powerless. Dulness and modesty 1 Thuc. viii. 97. 1 Thuc. i. 70. are a more useful combination than cleverness... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1920 - 152 pages
...so far as you are their masters ; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides what can be more detestable than to be perpetually changing our minds ?' He suggests that the advocates on the other side have been well paid for their speeches, and says... | |
 | R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...far as you are their masters ; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually...that a state in which the laws, though imperfect, are inviolable, is better off than one in which the laws are good but ineffective. Dullness and modesty... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1927 - 290 pages
...But quite the most alarming thing is, if nothing we have resolved upon shall be settled once for all. We forget that a state in which the laws, though imperfect,...than one in which the laws are good but powerless. Dullness and 1 Aristophanes, Wasps, 1034. * Thucydides iii, 37. 68 modesty are a more useful combination... | |
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