Remains of W.r. Churton [Ed. by E.churton]. - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... II. ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES, AND ROME IN THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS: AN ESSAY READ IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD, June 30. 1824. SYNOPSIS. General view of the two ages--the parallel turns on their civilization. Civilization considered first in manners:--manners of the higher and lower ranks shown in the amusements of both:--how affected at Athens by the state of parties;--at Rome by the state of public justice, and of domestic life:--vices most prevalent.--Civilization considered secondly and chiefly in the state of knowledge:--a nation's progress in knowledge distinguishable into three periods (serving for heads under which to compare their advancement in each):--1. necessary knowledge; manufactures and agriculture;--2. useful;--art of government:--3. elegant knowledge; containing, § 1. literature; oratory, philosophy, history, poetry, and language as showing the effect of all.--§2. Fine arts; music, sculpture, painting, and architecture.--Estimate of the whole, placing Rome in the second age, and Athens in the third. Conjectures on the causes of their intellectual excellence:--causes of general powers of mind:--causes which gave direction to those powers. --Conclusion, adverting to final causes or consequences to mankind. ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES, AND ROME IN THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS. Athens, at the commencement of the war with Persia, was in power a contented subject of the Lacedaemonian supremacy, and in science and literature surpassed by many of the Asiatic and Italian colonies. At the opening of the Peloponnesian war, she was the first maritime power in the world, and held within her walls, we might almost say, the collected genius of Greece. The ascendency which she had gained as the deliverer of Greece, with the voluntary homage paid to...