By refined taste he signifies an avoidance of immodesty of style.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Rochester, Dean Swift, wrote under monarchies--their pruriencies are not excelled by any republican authors of ancient times.

What ancient authors equal in indelicacy the French romances from the time of the Regent of Orleans to Louis XVI.?
By all accounts, the despotism of China is the very sink of indecencies, whether in pictures or books.

Still more, what can we think of a writer who says, that "the ancients have not left us one piece of pleasantry that is excellent, unless one may except the Banquet of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Lucian ?" What! has he forgotten Aristophanes?
Has he forgotten Plautus! No--but their pleasantry is not excellent to his taste; and he tacitly agrees with Horace in censuring the "coarse railleries and cold jests" of the Great Original of Moliere! [100] Which forbade the concentration of power necessary to great conquests.

Phoenicia was not one state, it was a confederacy of states; so, for the same reason, Greece, admirably calculated to resist, was ill fitted to invade.
[101] For the dates of these migrations, see Fast.Hell., vol.i.
[102] To a much later period in the progress of this work I reserve a somewhat elaborate view of the history of Sicily.
[103] Pausanias, in corroboration of this fact, observes, that Periboea, the daughter of Alcathous, was sent with Theseus with tribute into Crete.
[104] When, according to Pausanias, it changed its manners and its language.
[105] In length fifty-two geographical miles, and about twenty-eight to thirty-two broad.
[106] A council of five presided over the business of the oracle, composed of families who traced their descent from Deucalion.
[107] Great grandson to Antiochus, son of Hercules .-- Pausanias, l.