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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

..., Gladwin, Gogebic, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Houghton, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Iron, Isabella, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, K...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

... frugalitie of the Lacedemonians; as reformed in Sparta, as voluptuous in Ionia. and of the Graces, to be set up roundabout his school-house. Where t... ...taking upon himselfe. Boges, a Governor for King Xerxes, in the country of Ionia, being besieged by the Athenians army, under the conduct of Cymon, r...

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Areopagitica

By: John Milton

...addicted to elegant learning, as to have been the first that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete ...

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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

...sia from Euphrates; His conquering banner shook from Syria To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst MARK ANTONY: Antony, thou wouldst say, Messenger: ... ...e, Canidius, That from Tarentum and Brundusium He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea, And take in T oryne? You have heard on t, sweet? CLEOPATRA: C...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...that meet there. On the east side the inscription is,— Peloponnesus there, Ionia here, and on the west side,— Peloponnesus here, Ionia there. He also ... ...life of the Cretans, which were very sober and temperate, and those of the Ionians, a people of sumptuous and delicate habits, and so to form a judgme... ... three into one. However, some of Apollo’s oracles, where he calls Salamis Ionian, made much for Solon. This matter was determined by five Spartans, C... ...ces, or where they were to water; in which inscriptions he called upon the Ionians to forsake the Medes, if it were possible, and come over to the Gre... ... in all engage- ments. He hoped that these writings would prevail with the Ionians to revolt, or raise some trouble by making their fi- delity doubtfu... ...oke with upon the road that they were conveying a young Greek woman out of Ionia to a noble- man at court. Thucydides and Charon of Lampsacus say that... ...h as were above fifty years of age, sent by commission; five to summon the Ionians and Dorians in Asia, and the islanders as far as Lesbos and Rhodes;... ...ged. And they say it was in emulation of Thargelia, a courtesan of the old Ionian times, that she made her addresses to men of great power. Thargelia ... ...ne months’ time vanquished and taken the greatest and most powerful of the Ionians. And indeed it was not without reason that he assumed this glory to...

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The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

...is conquering 190 Banner shooke, from Syria to Lydia, 191 And to Ionia, whil’st— 192 Ant. Anthony thou would’st say. 193 ... ... That from Tarientum, and Brandusium, 1885 He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea, 1886 And take in Troine. You haue heard on’t (Sweet?) 1887...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...ponds pretty nearly with the Athenian month Posideon,) and having past the Ionian Sea, took Oricum and Apollonia, and then sent back the ships to Brun... ...ll round the theater. She herself, when once entertaining a visitor out of Ionia, who showed her all her rich ornaments, made of gold and set with jew... ...in teaching rhetoric about the island of Rhodes, and upon the continent in Ionia. It was not long after that Harpalus fled from Alexander, and came to... ...or military skill. He himself, going aboard at Brundusium, sailed over the Ionian Sea with a few troops, and sent back the vessels with orders to Anto... ...ians, was over- running Asia, from Euphrates and Syria as far as Lydia and Ionia. So, scarcely at last rousing himself from sleep, and shaking off the... ...hen a par- tition of the empire between them, taking as their boundary the Ionian Sea, the eastern provinces falling to Antony, to Caesar the western,... ...l to the enemy. Antony’s empire extended from Euphrates and Armenia to the Ionian sea and the Illyrians; Caesar’s, from Illyria to the westward ocean,... ...where now stands Nicopolis, Caesar seized his opportunity, and crossed the Ionian sea, securing himself at a place in Epirus called the Ladle. And whe... ...hem no other manner of injury, parted from thence with his army to go into Ionia. Through the whole course of this expedition, Brutus did many memorab...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...ting sail thither, but he found one ready to start for Erythrae, a town of Ionia, which faces that island, and he prevailed upon the seamen to allow h... ...esort the nobles from the neighbouring isles; From Samos, circled with the Ionian main, Dulichium, and Zacynthas’ sylvan reign; Ev’n with presumptuous...

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...tting sail thither, but he found one ready to Start for Erythræ, a town of Ionia, which faces that island, and he prevailed upon the seamen to allow h...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...daemonian austerity and frugality; as reformed in Sparta, as voluptuous in Ionia: “Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et status, et res.” [“Every com...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...deal with the English suitors, who were not the feeble voluptuaries of the Ionian Islands, that suffered themselves to be butchered as unresistingly a... ...in a tone of defiance demand, “Quam vero Græcia coloniam misit in Ætoliam, Ioniam, Asiam, Siciliam, Italiam, sine Pythio (the Delphic), aut Dodonseo, ... ...a and the Archipelago,” was henceforth exiled (as respected Greece) to the Ionian Islands. In these contests, though Greece was the prize at issue, th... ...singular advantages in their position at the point of junction between the Ionian and Egean seas. T o illustrate their condition of perpetual warfare,... ...ized in the preceding century, by some poor families from Peloponnesus and Ionia. At that time they had gained a scanty subsistence as fishermen. Grad...

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Parmenides

By: Plato

...y sketching the first portion of the dia logue:— Cephalus, of Clazomenae in Ionia, the birth place of Anaxagoras, a citizen of no mean city in the h...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

... addicted to elegant learning, as to have been the first that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete t...

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Symposium

By: Plato

...bout male loves. Some, like the Boeotians, approve of them; others, like the Ionians, and most of the barbarians, disapprove of them; partly because ... ...nd therefore the lov ers do not like the trouble of pleading their suit. In Ionia and other places, and generally in coun tries which are subject to... ...hing ever since the break of day. At last, in the evening after supper, some Ionians out of curiosity (I should explain that this was not in winter bu...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

...who are not free, that this government is a democracy: as in Apollonia, in Ionia, and in Thera: for in each of these cities the honours of the state b... ... other tyrants enjoyed originally the kingly power; Phalaris and others in Ionia, the honours of the state. Pansetius at Leontium, Cypselus at Corinth... ...ere called Ausonians. The Chones inhabited the part toward Iapigia and the Ionian Sea which is called Syrtis. These Chones were descended from the AEn...

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

...our of him who bestows it; as happened to many in Greece, in the cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where princes were made by Darius, in order th...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...und. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 204 2 Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, That matter of... ...RESS’D How dare one say it? After the cycles, poems, singers, plays, Vaunted Ionia’s, India’s—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times’ thick dotted road...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

... third period, therefore, epic poetry shows two diver- gent tendencies. In Ionia and the islands the epic poets fol- lowed the Homeric tradition, sing... ...tia, a new form of epic sprang up, which for the romance and pathos of the Ionian School substituted the practical and matter-of-fact. It dealt in mor... ...three contributory causes. First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indig- enous poet... ...er, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in ... ...ater than the Cyclic poems. It cannot be definitely assigned either to the Ionian or Continental schools, for while the romantic element is very stron... ...hese men to behave orderly and righteously. The Delian part is exclusively Ionian and insular both in style and sympathy; Delos and no other is Apollo... ...nds over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris, Ianeira (‘Lady of the Ionians’), but that most are called after some quality which their streams ... ...n of Zeus as Hesiod says... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Achaean. Fragment #53 —on Pindar, Nem. ii. 21: Concerning t... ...bus, yet in Delos do you most delight your heart; for there the long robed Ionians gather in your honour with their children and shy wives: mindful, t...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...u, it is true, a medley of archi- tectural embellishments. The chastity of Ionia is offended by antediluvian devices, and the sphynxes of Egypt are ou...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ke to him from a twisted column of the pleasure-loving myths of Greece and Ionia. Ah! who would not have smiled with him to see, against the earthen r...

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