Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 50
at it may truly be said thatThales prepared the way for the discipline introducedby Lycurgus. From Crete he sailed to Asia, with design, as is said,to examine the difference betwixt the manners andrules of life of the Cretans, which were very sober andtemperate, and those of the Ionians, a people… … From Crete He Sailed to Asia. the posterity of Creo- phylus; and, having observed that the few loose expressions and actions of ill example which are to be found in his poems were much outweighed by serious lessons of state and rules of morality, he set himself eagerly to transcribe and digest them…
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