 Such a provision they thought sufficient for health and a good habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped, and seeing the shocks standing parallel...  Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne - Page 136by Plutarchus - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 358 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning' from a journey through the fields just...parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, How lihe is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers ! After this, he attempted to... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 502 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, — " How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers !" After this he attempted... | |
 | Plutarch - Biography - 1823 - 424 pages
...reaped, and seeing the shocks standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among...attempted to divide also the moveables, in order to take away all appearance of inequality ; but he soon perceived that they could not bear to have their... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1831 - 356 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, ' How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!' After this, he attempted... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 444 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some who were by, reason ; for it is not likely that Lycurgus, who in all things endeavoured to support... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 446 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some who were by, reason : for it is not likely that Lycurgus. who in all things endeavoured to support... | |
 | Plutarch - 2009 - 354 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were oy,—" How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!" kingly power was abolished... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 544 pages
...legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped, and seein¿ the shocks standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that wereby,—” How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!” After this he... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1837 - 330 pages
...just reaped, after the generous provision that he had made for the citizens of Sparta and Laconia; and seeing the shocks standing parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, "How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers." The American Government is... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1840 - 472 pages
...habit of body, and they wanted nothing more. A story goes of our legislator, that some time after, returning from a journey through the fields just reaped,...parallel and equal, he smiled, and said to some that were by, — " How like is Laconia to an estate newly divided among many brothers!" After this he attempted... | |
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