Nueva Ciropedia: ó, Los viages de Ciro joven, con un discurso sobre la mitologia de los antiguos, Volumen1

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Impr. Real, 1799
 

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Página 153 - All men have their frailties. Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks : we love ourselves with all our faults ; and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
Página 73 - Lycians governed by women, and found it the easiest and most convenient form of government. Their queens had a council of senators, who assisted them with their advice. The men proposed good laws, but the women caused them to be executed. The sweetness and mildness of the sex prevented all the mischiefs of tyranny ; and ! the counsel of the wise senators qualified that inconstancy with which women are reproached.
Página 69 - I lived in this manner several months with her, and it was not possible for her to discover either my disguise or my passion. As my heart was not corrupted, I had no criminal view ; I imagined, that if I could engage her to love me, she would forsake her state of life to share my crown with me : I was continually waiting for a favorable moment, to reveal to her my sentiments ; but alas ! that moment never came.
Página 5 - Persia, was to prevent the Corruption of the Heart: And for this Reason, the Persians punish'd Ingratitude, a Vice against which there is no Provision made by the Laws of other Nations. Whoever was capable of forgetting a Benefit, or of refusing to do a good Office when it was in his Power, was looked upon as an Enemy to Society'.
Página 67 - ... among the Indians, that a father thinks it an act of religion to throw his daughter alive into the flames, should she ever fall from that purity of manners which she has sworn to preserve. " My father was yet living, and...
Página 134 - Cyprus ; besieged the city of Sidon by sea and land; took it, and made himself master of all Phoenicia and Palestine. So rapid a success elated his heart to a prodigious degree, and, as Herodotus informs us, swelled him with so much pride and infatuation, that he boasted, it was not in the power of the gods themselves to dethrone him ; so great was the idea he had formed to himself of the firm establishment of his own power. It was with a view to these arrogant notions, that Ezekiel put the vain...
Página 153 - Your manners, too averse to pleasure, sometimes offend me ; & without doubt , my imperfections make you uneasy in their turn. How unhappy should I be , if this difference of characters should alter our friendship ! All men have their frailties , reply'd Cyrus. Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections , will never find what he seeks. We are not always equally content with ourselves , how should we be so with our friend?
Página 193 - He wrote several books, which contained the divinity, philosophy and policy of the Egyptians. The first Hermes had invented the ingenious art of expressing all sorts of sounds by the different combinations of a few letters ; an invention most wonderful for its simplicity, but not sufficiently admired, because it is common. Besides this manner of writing, there was another, which was consecrated to divine things, and which few persons understood. Trismegistus...
Página 66 - Sophites. Having lost my way one day when I was hunting , I chanced to see in the thick part of a wood a young maid , who was there reposing; herself. Her surprizing beauty immediately struck me ; I became immoveable, and durst...
Página 170 - ... laws may be reduced to three, upon which all the rest depend ; the first relates to kings, the second to polity, and the third to civil justice. The kingdom was hereditary, but the kings were subject to the laws. The Egyptians esteemed it a criminal usurpation upon the rights of the great Osiris, and as a mad presumption in a man to give his will for a law. As soon as the king rose in the morning, which was at the break of day, when the understanding is clearest, and the soul most serene, all...

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