 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 sayfa
...at table, though the great were frequently his guests. In other pleasures he was equally continent ; and the modesty of his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinction. Zeno was tall and slender, with a severe aspect, and a contracted brow. His constitution... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness; ana the modesty of his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinctions. He reached the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...depart, and, repeating from the tragedy of Niobe, " Here I am ; why do you call me ?" went home and strangled himself on the principle that a man was at liberty... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...personal distinctions. He reached the advanced age of ninety -eight, when, hurting one of his fingers in a fall, he interpreted the accident into a warning... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness; nnd the modesty of his disposition led him to slum crowds and personal distinctions. He reached the... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...depart, and, repeating from the tragedy of Niobe, " Here I am ; why do you call me ?" went home and strangled himself, on the principle that a man was at liberty... | |
 | John Gorton - 1851 - 690 sayfa
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinction«. He reached tlie advanced age of ninety-eight; when hurting чпе of his finger« in... | |
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The Athenians placed so much confidence in his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into Greece, but he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness;... 