The Historical Preceptor Or, a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Passages, Selected from the Works of the Best Historians - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789. Excerpt: ... did not defame themselves by such courses. They have always their eye abroad, and, when they see any potentate taking advantage of our misfortunes, they magnify his successes, and give out, that all endeavours should be used to eternize his victories. " Immortal gods! let none of you hear such vows as these; but rather rectify the minds and hearts of such perverse men. But, if their inveterate malice is incurable, pursue them both by sea and land, and extirpate them entirely. As to us Athenians, avert, as soon as possible, the calamities which threaten us, and grant us undisturbed security." 77. CUSTOM, Among The EGYPTIANS, Of TRYING PEOPLE AfTER THEIR DEATH. rcllin's Ancient History. T HAVE faid that the public recognized the virtues of deceased persons, because that, before they could be admitted into the facred asylum of the tomb, they underwent a solemn.trial. And this circumstance in the Egyptian sunerals is one of the most remarkable to be found in ancient history. It was a consolation, among the Heathens, to a dying man, to leave a good name behind him; and they imagined that this is the only human blessing, of which death cannot deprive us. But the Egyptians would not suffer praises to be bestowed indiscriminately on all deceased persons. This honour was to be obtained only from the public voice. The assembly of the j udges met on the other fide of the lake which they crossed.in a boat. He who fat at the helm was called Charon, in the Egyptian language; and this first gave the hint to Orpheus, who had been in Egypt, and after him to other Greeks, to invent the fiction of. Charon's boat. As soon as a man was dead he was brought to his trial. The public accuser was heard. If he proved that the deceased had led a bad lise, his memor/ was condemned, a...
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