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...trived the ordinance for the cessation of arms during the solemnity of the Olympic games. Of this opinion was Aristotle; and for confirmation of it, h... ...to demon- strate that he was much more ancient than the institution of the Olympic games. Timaeus conjectures that there were two of this name, and in... ...s, much extolled the Eleans for their just and honorable management of the Olympic tames; “Indeed,” said Agis, “they are highly to be commended if the... ... The king had always about his person some one who had been crowned in the Olympic games; and upon this account a Lacedaemonian is said to have refuse... ...ry, and that he made all his laws in a contin- ued peace. And, indeed, the Olympic holy truce, or cessa- tion of arms, that was procured by his means ... ...no other waters but its own, and is on all sides en- circled with fruitful mountains, without any cause, unless it were divine, began visibly to rise ... ...ere divine, began visibly to rise and swell, increasing to the feet of the mountains, and by degrees reaching the level of the very tops of them, and ... ...ter number of women and young children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the fa... ...ar- thest parts of Europe; others, seating themselves between the Pyrenean mountains and the Alps, lived there a considerable time, near to the Senone...

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...es of Doctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that d... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e...

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...ng for- ward to let fly his stone, he looks like a beautiful runner at the Olympic games. After that I shall skip to the New Testament. I mean to make... ...o the New Testament. I mean to make a Christ.” “You ‘ll put nothing of the Olympic games into him, I hope,” said Gloriani. “Oh, I shall make him very ... ... to do the Morning; I mean to do the Night! I mean to do the Ocean and the Mountains; the Moon and the West Wind. I mean to make a magnificent statue ... ...e West Wind. I mean to make a magnificent statue of America!” “America—the Mountains—the Moon!” said Gloriani. “You ‘ll find it rather hard, I ‘m afra... ...on the great terrace which looks toward Tivoli and the irides- cent Sabine mountains. He carried his volume of Ariosto in his pocket, and took it out ... ...t was extravagant in her satisfaction; Christina looked away at the Sabine mountains, in silence. The prince stood by, frowning at the rapture of the ... ... ruin. The views were as fine as he had supposed; the lights on the Sabine Mountains had never been more lovely. He gazed to his satisfaction and retr...

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...by Sylla, finding Julius unassail- able, sat down short at the foot of the mountains in perplex- ity. But a certain Calpurnius, surnamed Lanarius, hav... ...ose who were the strongest and swiftest of foot, and sent them through the mountains, with order that when they had delivered the water, they should c... ...aecias, pre- vailing most in those parts, coming up out of moist plains or mountains covered with snow, at this particular time, in the heat of summer... ... his enemies got notice of his coming. For the barbarians who dwelt on the mountains overlooking the desert, amazed at the multitude of fires they saw... ...anity he observed among the Spartans, about keeping running horses for the Olympic games, upon which he found they much valued themselves. Agesilaus r... ...Illyrians in a great battle, that his race-horse had won the course at the Olympic games, and that his wife had given birth to Alexander; with which b... ...edantry, and took care to have the victories of his racing chariots at the Olympic games engraved on his coin,) but when he was asked by some about hi... ...ut when he was asked by some about him, whether he would run a race in the Olympic games, as he was very swift-footed, he answered, he would, if he mi... ...rs crowns, not of gold, but of wild olive, such as used to be given at the Olympic games; and instead of the magnificent presents that were usually ma...

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...e least, of ours, in comparison with eternity, or yet with the duration of mountains, rivers, stars, 134 Essays: Book the First trees, and even of so... ...b’s sheep, and the hares and partridges that the snow turns white upon the mountains. There was at my house, a little while ago, a cat seen watching a... ... night in the snow, or suffer themselves to be burned up by the sun on the mountains; boxers, hurt by the caestus, never utter a groan.”—Cicero, Tusc.... ...s., v. 3.]— that our life resembles the great and populous assembly of the Olympic games, wherein some exercise the body, that they may carry away the... ...ea-shore, enclosed on the other side towards the land, with great and high mountains, having about a hun- dred leagues in breadth between. They have g... ...ho very rarely present themselves to the people, having their abode in the mountains. At their arrival, there is a great feast, and solemn assembly of...

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... treasures it brings down at eve. THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic, That look with their eye-dar... ...he sky-throned courts of Zeus, and climbing, dared For once in a world the Olympic wrath, and braved The electric spirit which from his clenching hand... ...ching screen, T o lie in peace half-murmuring words of thanks! T o see the mountains on each other climb, With spaces for rich meadows flowery bright;... ...rozen glow Spread over endless fields of sheeted snow; And white untrodden mountains shining cold, And muffled footpaths winding thro’ the wold, O’er ... ...hink of it, my boys! Confusion on their Alps, And all their baby toys! The mountains Britain boasts are men: And scale you them, my brethren!’ Cluck, ... ...y, far away, where the wandering scents Of all flowers are sweetest, white mountains among, There my kindred abide in their green and blue tents: Bear...

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...dings, and are, I grieve to write it, generally de serted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show box for vaudevilles and burlesques. It is singularl... ...sight of the first range of hills, which are the outposts of the Alleghany Mountains, the scenery, which had been uninteresting hitherto, became more ... ...ich and beautiful; the weather very fine; and for many miles the Kaatskill mountains, where Rip Van Winkle and the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins...

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...es of Doctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that d... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e... ...s—though I will think of them, when night comes on a hurricane and seas is mountains rowling, for which overhaul your Doctor Watts, brother, and when ... ... home, as should dazzle the senses of that lady, and heap mortifica- tion, mountains high, on the head of Mrs Skewton. ‘But I am made,’ said Mrs Chick... ...le as secluding himself from Mrs MacStinger among 873 Charles Dickens the mountains of Switzerland. Similarly , when I am reminded by any chance of w...

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...n at his marriage; and yet it was after a long practice of arms beyond the mountains, of which wars he left us a journal under his own hand, wherein h... ...styllus, Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that... ... mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an em... ... stand in as much need of us as we do of them, like people at sea, to whom mountains, fields, cities, heaven and earth are tossed at the same rate as ... ...ysius the father valued himself upon nothing so much as his poetry; at the Olympic games, with chariots surpassing all the others in magnificence, he ... ... a poor, drawling, scurvy language. There is, indeed, above us towards the mountains a sort of Gascon spoken, that I am 160 Book the Second mightily ... ... [“They are headlong borne with burning fury as great stones torn from the mountains, by which the steep sides are left naked and bare.”—Juvenal, Sat.... ...d and crackling shrubs of laurel, or as with impetuous fall from the steep mountains, foaming torrents pour down to the ocean, each clearing a destruc...

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...he Great Saint Bernard! I have lived in Switzerland, and rambled among the mountains; but, why I should go there now, and why up the Great Saint Berna... ...e Hotel Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, dow... ...en paralysed by it, across a broad dining table. He was lounging among the mountains, sir, basking in the mellow influences of the climate, when he ca... ...y say probably, was never vis ited by any stranger before. What a valley! Mountains piled on mountains, avalanches stemmed by pine forests; water fa...

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...eur, a little skin was rubbed off his head. We bathed the wounds with some water which the monks gave us. But there was nothing the matter with his ha... ... the dif- ferent members of the French nobility towards the vessels at anchor. But when it was observed that even inside the harbor the boats were tos... ...e magnificent spectacle which the sky presented, of deepest azure in the horizon, the amphitheatre of fleecy clouds ascending from the sun’s disc to t...

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...cks, and a’ course the beast is a kinder riled. He wants to be back to the mountains. He wouldn’t have his belly filled, but he’d have his own way. It... ...sults? We determined to go to Portland, in Maine, from thence to the White Mountains in New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and... ...r they ever heard, or at any rate whether they know anything, of the White Mountains? As regards myself, I confess that the name had reached my ears; ... ...n indefinite idea that they formed an intermediate stage between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by Mor- ... ... hotels closed. October, no doubt, is the most beautiful month among these mountains; but, according to the present arrangement of matters here, the h... ...ness of Hollowell Street is dear to me, and I love to thread my way up the Olympic into Covent Garden. Fifth Avenue in New York is as grand as paint a...

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...The sun was sinking. “It is time,” said he, “to go and fetch Armida to the Olympic.” 27 Burlesques PHIL FOGARTY A TALE OF THE FIGHTING ONETY- ONETH. ... ...ell- bred to pretend to remark his emotion. The sun was setting behind the mountains as our songs were finished, and each began to look out with some ... ...f November, which are only known in the valleys of Languedoc and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been per- ceived by the ... ...oats by it in silver magnificence, and on the opposite bank rise the seven mountains robed in majestic purple, the monarchs of the royal scene. A plea... ...ay!—away amid the green vineyards and golden cornfields; away up the steep mountains, where he frightened the eagles in their eyries; away down the cl... ...ave horse! gallant steed! snorting child of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; and never stopped until he reach...

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...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ...ar 1997.The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at... ...ncerned about the danger posed by aircraft since at least the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.There he had tried to create an air defense plan using assets from... ...bout the danger posed by aircraft in the context of protecting the Atlanta Olympics of 1996, the White House complex, and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa... ...d’s idea, see chapter 5, note 33. 16. For Clarke’s involvement in the 1996 Olympics, see Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003). For the 1998 exerci...