The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal (Volume 70) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1784. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... rorrupted by the presents of the Lydian Monarch, and that it was the first of the Grecian States which entered into an alliance with the Barbarians. After the irruption of the Persians nto Greece the Spartans had their Newmarket, and surpassed in the sport of horse racing: we find them also erecting, at OI_ympia, two statues, the pfecious workmanship of the celebrated Myron, partaking of the immense treasures that were found in the Persian camp after the battle of Platea; and taking their share in the plunder of tlje Temple of Delphos, in which tike Phoceans took the lead. The conquest and plunder of Athens increased still farther the opulence of Sparta; and the contributions it drew, after this conquest, from all the cities thac were subject to the Athenian government, must have concurred to render it, as Plato calls it, the richest of all the Grecian States. It must also be observed, that in these circumstances, even the institutions of Lycurgus, contrary to their primitive intention, contributed to the accumulation of opulence in Sparta; for while floods of wealth came in, an unacquaintance with the wants of luxury, and a respect, real or forced, for the laws of frugality, which had not totally lost their hold, prevented any thing considerable from going out.-- At last the period came when the Volcano broke through its icy cover, and the passions, nourished by its hidden flame, came forth with the explosion, and destroyed the morals and grandeur of Sparta. Art. II. yerhandelingin Raakende, Sic. i. e. Prize-Dissertations on Natural and Revealed Religion. Published by Teyler's Theological Society. Volume III. * Large DEGREESto. Haarlem. 1783. HUMAN liberty or (what the society has been pleased to call) Moral Liberty f, is the important subject discussed in this Volume. ...