 | Xenophon - 1858 - 544 pages
...slaves, cattle, and furniture ; but as for a friend, whom they called the greatest of blessings, ho saw the majority considering neither how to procure...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again* some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to... | |
 | Xenophon - 1860 - 572 pages
...to any thing rather than securing friends. 2. He observed them, he added, industriously endeavoring to procure houses and lands, slaves, cattle, and furniture...to reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again3 some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends... | |
 | Xenophon - 1862 - 554 pages
...procure one, nor how those whom they had might be retained. 3. Even when friends and slaves were siclc, he said that he noticed people calling in physicians...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again" some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to... | |
 | Xenophon - 1874 - 554 pages
...possessions they left nothing untended or unheeded, but when their friends required attention, they utterlr neglected them. 4. In addition to these remarks he...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again" some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to... | |
 | Xenophon - 1875 - 570 pages
...property is more valuable, lasting, and useful than a good friend : his qualities enumerated, 5 — 7. i. I HEARD him, also, on one occasion, holding a discourse...little did they allow their friends to occupy their thougnts. 5. Yet in comparison with what possession, of all others, would not 1 The sentiments of Plato's... | |
 | Xenophon - 1877 - 548 pages
...required attention, they utterly neglected them. 4. In addition to these remarks ho observed that ho saw the greater part of mankind acquainted with the...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again' some that they had previously counted among their friends; so littlo did they allow their friends to... | |
 | Xenophon - 1883 - 566 pages
...property is more valuable, lasting, and useful than a good friend : his qualities enumerated, 5 — 7i. I HEARD him, also, on one occasion, holding a discourse...to reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again2 some that they had previously counted among their friends ; so little did they allow their friends... | |
 | Xenophon - 1883 - 540 pages
...nothing in losing friends. Of their other possessions they left nothing untended or unheeded, boat when their friends required attention, they utterly...little did they allow their friends to occupy their thougnts. 5. Yet in comparison with what possession, of all others, would not 1 The sentiments of Plato's... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...substance of this was delivered at the London Working Men's College. put together." And again, men know "the number of their other possessions, although they...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...College. put together." And again, men know "the number of their other possessions, although they riiight be very numerous, but of their friends, though but...reckon it to such as asked them, they set aside again some that they had previously counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to... | |
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Even when friends and slaves were sick, he said that he noticed people calling in physicians to their slaves, and carefully providing other means for their recovery, but paying no attention to their friends ; and that, if both died, they grieved for their... 
