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but no one ever imitates the dignity of his language or of his sentiments, but when they have used some disjointed and unconnected expressions, which they might have done without any teacher at all, then they think that they are akin to thucydides. |
though i thought i then was passing to my former state insensible, and forthwith to dissolve: when suddenly stood at my head a dream, whose inward apparition gently moved my fancy to believe i yet had being, and lived: one came, methought, of shape |
but when he comes to a character which is unworthy of him, he will not make a study of that; he will disdain such a person, and will assume his likeness, if at all, for a moment only when he is performing some good action; at other times he will be |
and whereas the incidents of chance are many, and differ in greatness and smallness, the small pieces of good or ill fortune evidently do not affect the balance of life, but the great and numerous, if happening for good, will make life more blessed (for |
which the man has the desire to emit into the fruitful womb of the woman; this is like a fertile field in which the seed is quickened and matured, and at last brought to light. |
for that which includes all other intelligible creatures cannot have a second or companion; in that case there would be need of another living being which would include both, and of which they would be parts, and the likeness would be more truly said to |
chap. i. one. confucius, in his village, looked simple and sincere, and as if he were not able to speak. two. when he was in the prince's ancestorial temple, or in the court, he spoke minutely on every point, but cautiously. chap two. one. |
contemplation of beauty." and in his letter to pythocles, he writes, "and, my dear boy, avoid all sorts of education." |
being is the limit of coming to be and not-being is the limit of ceasing to be: and in contrary changes the particular contraries are the limits, since these are the extreme points of any such process of change, and consequently of every process of |
of the others, that which is nearer to the minimum is less than one more remote. five. |
the head of a strong force, prepared for battle. |
train him shall be the fairest and best adapted to that purpose. a minute discussion of this subject would be a serious task; but if, as before, i am to give only an outline, the subject may not unfitly be summed up as follows. |
twelve. prove that any right line through the intersection of the diagonals of a parallelogram bisects the parallelogram. |
despise them. he accordingly picked out a hundred and fifty heavy infantry and, putting the rest under clearidas, determined to attack suddenly before the athenians retired; thinking that he should not have again such a chance of catching them alone, if |
it is a matter of observation that fire, water, and every simple body undergo a process of analysis, which must either continue infinitely or stop somewhere. (one) suppose it infinite. |
"by malevolence, or unskilfulness, or accident, the midwife, seeking with the hand to test some maiden's virginity, has sometimes destroyed it."--st. augustine, de civit. dei, i. eighteen. |
therefore if there is a science of all things, such as some assert to exist, he who is learning this will know nothing before. |
but also in contentions and political animosities, a noble nature and a temperate education stay and compose the mind. |
they had, however, destroyed the barrow lately raised in memory of varus's legions, and the old altar of drusus. the prince restored the altar, and himself with his legions celebrated funeral games in his father's honour. |
nine virg. ae. three. four hundred eighteen. |
when these are modified under changed circumstances, moral duty also undergoes a change, and it does not always remain the same. thirty two non-fulfilment of promises. |
at length one of the old men cried out and said, there was no place so sacred, but they might pass through it for marius's preservation; and thereupon, first of all, he himself, taking up some of the baggage that was carried for his accommodation to the |
after this the stockman hit ctesippus in the breast, and taunted him saying, "foul-mouthed son of polytherses, do not be so foolish as to talk wickedly another time, but let heaven direct your speech, for the gods are far stronger than men. |
their goings forth to war as many cattle as they desire, and take both the hides and the backs of all that are sacrificed.. |
the things which they practise are said not yet to be known. here is one fishing for pickerel with grown perch for bait. you look into his pail with wonder as into a summer pond, as if he kept summer locked up at home, or knew where she had retreated. |
together. it is clear, then, that though there may be countless instances of the perishing of some principles that are unmoved but impart motion, and though many things that move themselves perish and are succeeded by others that come into being, and |
figure: therefore fire will be a pyramid. others, again, express no opinion on the subject of its figure, but simply regard it as the of the finest parts, which in combination will form other bodies, as the fusing of gold-dust produces solid gold. |
prop. three.-theorem. if two planes (ab, bc) cut one another, their common section (bd) is a right line. |
five. now this philosopher was very fond of a garden, and also of solitude, as we are told by antigonus. |
the peril, yet am i solicitous respecting the safety of our posterity and the immortality of the commonwealth itself, which, doubtless, might become perpetual and invincible if our people would maintain their ancient institutions and manners. |
but afterwards things which were approved of, or which seemed useful, either through habit, or because of their truth, appeared to have been confirmed by laws, and some things seem to be a law of nature, which it is not any vague opinion, but a sort of |
the common name, too, which has been handed down from our distant ancestors even to our own day, seems to show that they conceived of it in the fashion which we have been expressing. |
he must be omniscient, in order to know my conduct up to the inmost root of my mental state in all possible cases and into all future time; omnipotent, in order to allot to it its fitting consequences; similarly he must be omnipresent, eternal, etc. |
those who are inured to monarchy do the same; and what opportunity soever fortune presents them with to change, even then, when with the greatest difficulties they have disengaged themselves from one master, that was troublesome and grievous to them, they |
the athenians were deliberating, and at a loss what to do, when demades, having agreed with the persons whom alexander had demanded, for five talents, undertook to go ambassador, and to intercede with the king for them; and, whether it was that he relied |
motion to that of the heavens. this at once leads us to expect that the body which is nearest to that first simple revolution should take the longest time to complete its circle, and that which is farthest from it the shortest, the others taking a longer |
be gotten, as he had found use for; though not so copious, as an orator or philosopher has need of. |
them separately in the same way as we indicate a higher degree or preponderance of an affection by 'more', of a quantity by 'greater.' |
for when he had sent messengers to the thesprotians on the river acheron to ask the oracle of the dead about a deposit made with him by a guest-friend, melissa appeared and said she would not tell in what place the deposit was laid, for she was cold and |
again, if the genus have a contrary, look and see whether also the contrary species is found in the contrary genus: for if so, clearly also the species in question is found in the genus in question. |
good riddles do, in general, provide us with satisfactory metaphors: for metaphors imply riddles, and therefore a good riddle can furnish a good metaphor. |
twenty one. what propositions are these limiting cases of? |
capable of change: whether the elements are naturally opposed to one another, or whether they are not at variance, but work towards the same end by different means." |
to me, however, did the heart writhe with laughter, and was like to break; it knew not where to go, and sunk into the midriff. |
covered with splashes both from the horses' hoofs and from the tyres of the wheels. |
advanced. seeing the senses cannot determine our dispute, being full of uncertainty themselves, it must then be reason that must do it; but no reason can be erected upon any other foundation than that of another reason; and so we run back to all infinity. |
then because the plane ab is perpendicular to adc, the line de in ab is normal to the plane adc eleven. def. viii. . in like manner df is normal to it. therefore from the point five hundred there are two distinct normals to the plane adc, which eleven. |
impassivity, i.e. not of locomotion but rather of qualitative change. |
and yet there is no difficulty in seeing that the perfect number of time fulfils the perfect year when all the eight revolutions, having their relative degrees of swiftness, are accomplished together and attain their completion at the same time, measured |
do not let any one suppose us to mean that each of these enunciated by itself constitutes a proposition or problem, but only that it is from these that both problems and propositions are formed. |
if the rectangle contained by the extremes of three right lines be equal to the square of the mean, the three lines are proportional. |
adb is a triangle fulfilling the required conditions. |
himself. they then, since they had suffered a heavy blow, did not advance further up towards the west, nor did any one compel them to do so; but they remained still in samos and kept watch over ionia, lest it should revolt, having three hundred ships |
out. thus, he that has an idea made up of barely the simple ones of a beast with spots, has but a confused idea of a leopard; it not being thereby sufficiently distinguished from a lynx, and several other sorts of beasts that are spotted. |
two hundred fifty two. the fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the gambler. |
an ancient father says "that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand." |
eyes fell on; all the change is in me. it has not acquired one permanent wrinkle after all its ripples. it is perennially young, and i may stand and see a swallow dip apparently to pick an insect from its surface as of yore. |
but to the median war and contemporary history we must refer, although we are rather tired of continually bringing this subject forward. |
ninety one ippoboteon , lit. "horse-breeding": see v. seventy seven. |
pure mathematics, and especially pure geometry, can only have objective reality on condition that they refer to objects of sense. |
certainly, he replied, we must do as you say. |
now by its length i mean the interval between its poles, one pole being above and the other below; for two hemispheres are specially distinguished from all others by the immobility of the poles. |
the good man will do his duty without disturbance or fear, and he will perform the duty of a good man, so as to do nothing unworthy of a man. |
this would be the natural form of movement towards what is naturally spherical. either then the earth is spherical or it is at least naturally spherical. |
and when he had made a good deal of progress he attached himself to polemo because of his freedom from arrogance, so that it is reported that he said to him, "i am not ignorant, o zeno, that you slip into the garden-door and steal my doctrines, and then |
he was seen, as the people thronged about him, to wear a calm face, while he prolonged his time on the way with various conversations, till at last when piso's relatives tried in vain to restrain him, augusta directed the money which was claimed to be |
if you were to ask a man, why he believes any matter of fact, which is absent; for instance, that his friend is in the country, or in france; he would give you a reason; and this reason would be some other fact; as a letter received from him, or the |
again, the two s bac, cad have the sides ba, ac of one respectively equal to the sides ac, ad of the other, and the included angles equal; therefore iv. |
man to be a slave, and that to be a master, and that it is right and just, that some should be governed, and others govern, in the manner that nature intended; of which sort of government is that which a master exercises over a slave. |
him, attending and conducting him to rome with far greater forces than he disbanded; insomuch that if he had designed any movement or innovation in the state, he might have done it without his army. |
has he any objection to make to them which would justify him in overturning them? was he not brought into the world and educated by their help, and are they not his parents? |
another;' but 'this life is subject to law, and is in a state of progress, and therefore law and progress may be believed to be the governing principles of another.' |
fifteen. given the base of a triangle, the vertical angle, and the radius of the inscribed, or any of the escribed circles: construct it. |
for the same cause must necessarily have the same effect on the same thing. |
yet, doubtless, there was some first impression derived from external nature, which, as in mythology, so also in philosophy, worked upon the minds of the first thinkers. |
for though the nature of that we conceive, be the same; yet the diversity of our reception of it, in respect of different constitutions of body, and prejudices of opinion, gives everything a tincture of our different passions. |
"suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis, e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem:" |
patroclus, i suppose, will lead him off to his chamber to bind up his wounds, at least if he be a man: but not a word of that; he only inquires how the battle went: |
in my time, a gentleman on one of our frontiers, unwieldy of body, and finding no horse able to carry his weight, having a quarrel, rode through the country in a chariot of this fashion, and found great convenience in it. |
this he did in apprehension of a night attack, for a persian army is good for nothing at night. |
meanwhile ulysses untied the horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off, striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot. then he whistled as a sign to diomed. |
entertain too decided a belief in regard to nothing of the truth of which i had been persuaded merely by example and custom; and thus i gradually extricated myself from many errors powerful enough to darken our natural intelligence, and incapacitate us in |
the conception of quantity cannot be explained except by saying that it is the determination of a thing whereby it can be cogitated how many times one is placed in it. |
a may belong to all b and to no one hundred, or to all one hundred and to no b, or to all of the one, not to all of the other; here too the relation between the terms may be reversed. similarly in the third figure. |
for let flesh be extracted from water and again more flesh be produced from the remainder by repeating the process of separation: then, even though the quantity separated out will continually decrease, still it will not fall below a certain magnitude. |
what the pagans had feared took place. then everything changed its aspect: the humble christians changed their language, and soon this so-called kingdom of the other world turned, under a visible leader, into the most violent of earthly despotisms. |
nevertheless, he did identify place and space.) i mention plato because, while all hold place to be something, he alone tried to say what it is. |
socrates: he will explain, secondly, the mode in which she acts or is acted upon. |
do you not see that when you have let your mind loose, it is no longer in your power to recall it, either to propriety, or to modesty, or to moderation; but you do everything that comes into your mind in obedience to your inclinations. |
iv. a rectangle is said to be contained by any two adjacent sides. thus the rectangle abcd is said to be contained by ab, ad, or by ab, bc, c. |
if the only daughter-in-law agrippina could bear was one who wished evil to her son, let her be restored to her union with otho. |
theaetetus: indeed, socrates, i do not know how to prove the one any more than the other, for in both cases the facts precisely correspond;--and there is no difficulty in supposing that during all this discussion we have been talking to one another in a |
midst of this, socrates with his bare feet on the ice and in his ordinary dress marched better than the other soldiers who had shoes, and they looked daggers at him because he seemed to despise them. |
pedaritus, son of leon, who had been sent by the lacedaemonians to take the command at chios, they dispatched by land as far as erythrae with the mercenaries taken from amorges; appointing philip to remain as governor of miletus. |
forty three. the hsia, the shang and the chou. although the last-named was nominally existent in sun tzu's day, it retained hardly a vestige of power, and the old military organization had practically gone by the board. |
leucas, to go to the relief of naupactus. |
mingled together, of the phrygians, thracians, mysians, paionians, and the rest; and among them also some ethiopians, and of the egyptians those called hermotybians and calasirians, thirty five carrying knives, thirty six who of all the egyptians are the |
by the former they mean extension, figure, motion, rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number; by the latter they denote all other sensible qualities, as colours, sounds, tastes, and so forth. |
such speculations are apt to be unsettling, because they seem to show that an institution which was thought to be a revelation from heaven, is only the growth of history and experience. |
now see why his tutor, exchanging pleas for ploughs, has had given to him in the public domain of the roman people two thousand acres of land in the leontine district, exempt from all taxes, for making a stupid man still stupider at the public expense. |
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