Athenian

Examples

• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If by this is meant, Was he loyal to Athenian institutions? Plato. The Republic.
• There was very little that was great and generous about the common Athenian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The entirely free Venetian republic ruled an empire of dependent islands and trading ports, rather after the fashion of the Athenian republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Like the Athenian empire, it was an overseas empire; its ways were sea ways, and its common link was the British Navy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As Winckler has remarked, the Athenian democracy had for a time the face of Pericles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miltiades, the Athenian, was for accepting this proposal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Plato wishes to give his citizens a taste of Athenian freedom as well as of Lacedaemonian discipline. Plato. The Republic.
• He was apprehensive that the city was becoming corrupted through the wantonness and lack of principle of the Athenian youth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is not fair to say I idealize the Athenian mob; see, for example, my _Euripides and his Age_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Athenian writers were, indeed, the first of modern men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The History of Herodotus displays little or no dissatisfaction with Athenian political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have been born too late, for my soul is Athenian, and longs for the plane-trees of Ilissus. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The so-called Athenian empire was simply a city state directing its allies and its subjugated cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Athenians charged the enemy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For my part I see nothing so extraordinary in this proceeding of the Athenians. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Athenians, you know, were small in number, yet see the intellectual effect they produced in the world's history. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You get strong testimony, sometimes indignant testimony, that the Athenians were too soft altogether in their treatment of slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Talk of the best-known Athenians as our mutual friends. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ships of the Athenians and their allies sulked unhelpfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some vague expectation I had that a savant would stand up and deliver a formal speech, half dogmatism to the Athenians, half flattery to the princes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So of old the Athenians erected an altar to πρ?? τ?ν ?γναστον Θε?ν, said Maurice sadly, rather puzzled to know what to do. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Athenians were content to humiliate Pericles, but he had served them so long that they were indisposed to do without him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Athens for the Athenians was the guiding principle of her rule, and tax the foreigner her substitute for political wisdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the Athenians or the Spartans it would mean letting in a lot of foreigners to the advantages of citizenship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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