Historical Illustrations of the Origin And Progress of the Passions, And Their Influence On the Conduct of Mankind : With Some Subordinate Sketches of Human Nature And Human Life V. 2
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26, of Justinian II. VOL. II. N l^jg EQUALIZATION OF MANKIND. preserving. But the ancients infer, that he wanted courage to depart. Transported to less rigorous confinement, he provoked his keepers, who having no other method of wreaking their vengeance, it is alleged, than keeping him continually from sleep, he perished under this unexampled punishment.*' It was not without reason, that, amidst the deri- sion to which the captive Dionysius was exposed, he said to one who questioned him on the ...benefit he had derived from Plato, " Do you think that we have derived no benefit from Plato, when we bear in this manner such a change of fortune?" With powerful fleets and numerous armies, de- fended by strong walls and warlike engines, Diony- sius believed himself invulnerable. But the state he held was too artificial to be permanent, if want- ing illustrious descent or moral virtue makes For- tune fickle. For his father, being a man of mean extraction, became a General in the Syracusan army, and gradually invested himself with the go- vernment, which, after a long reign, he transmitted to his son.
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