hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Xenophon or search for Xenophon in all documents.
Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
A country life.
Turning from war a moment to look into a new book, we find that "Ik Marvel," the author of "The Reveries of a Bachelor," has just published "Wet Days at Edgewood"--a very agreeably-written volume.
Of a country life, he says:
"In the course of one of my earlier Wet Days, I took occasion to allude to the brave old age that was reached by the classic veterans — Xenophon, Cato and Varro; and now I find among the most eminent British agriculturists and gardeners of the close of the last century a firm grip on life that would have matched the hardihood of Cato.
Old Abercrombie, of Preston Pans, as we have already seen, reached the age of eighty.
Walpole, though I lay no claim to him as farmer or gardener, yet, thanks to walks and garden-work of Strawberry Hill, lived to the same age. Philip Milles was an octogenarian.
Lord Kames was aged thirty-seven at his death (1782). Arthur Young, though struggling with blindness in his later years, had accumulated such st