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great hector now turned his head aside while he shook the helmet, and the lot of paris flew out first. |
questions for examination on props. thirteen., fourteen., fifteen. |
men in a state of nature being confined merely to what is physical in love, and fortunate enough to be ignorant of those excellences, which whet the appetite while they increase the difficulty of gratifying it, must be subject to fewer and less violent |
hence it will not be a geometrical line no matter how nearly it may approach to one. this is the reason that euclid postulates the drawing of a right line from one point to another. |
for carrying always follows one of the other three methods, for that which is carried is in motion accidentally, because it is in or upon something that is in motion, and that which carries it is in doing so being either pulled or pushed or twirled; thus |
pushed on, and pulled back in their motions, by the same springs that we are in our little undertakings. |
how strange then that socrates should have been so treated by the athenians. slave, why do you say socrates? |
there was nothing behind them; they were to physical science what the poems of homer were to early greek history. |
expetendam. ita propria est ea praeceptio stoicorum, academicorum, peripateticorum, quoniam aristonis, pyrrhonis, erilli iam pridem explosa sententia est; qui tamen haberent ius suum disputandi de officio, si rerum aliquem dilectum five reliquissent, ut |
entanglements; always in a readiness to depart:) shall live by herself, and to herself, doing that which is just, accepting whatsoever doth happen, and speaking the truth always; if, i say, thou shalt separate from thy mind, whatsoever by sympathy might |
hence be, ch, which join their adjacent extremities, are equal and parallel; therefore bh is a parallelogram. again, since the parallelograms bd, bh are on the same base bc, and between the same parallels bc, ah, they are equal xxxv. . |
monstrous; or that man should rise above himself and humanity; for he cannot see but with his eyes, nor seize but with his hold. |
more faults are often committed, while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offence. nay, some virtues are actually hated; inflexible strictness, for example, and a temper proof against partiality. |
future. you may indeed be sure that those thunderbolts alone are just which are worshipped even by those who are struck by them. |
but now, inasmuch as the soul is manifestly immortal, there is no release or salvation from evil except the attainment of the highest virtue and wisdom. |
such as know me, both above and below me in station, are able to say whether they have ever known a man less importuning, soliciting, entreating, and pressing upon others than i. |
in the end, however, they were all driven into the entrenchment and had a sorrowful night of it with their slain and wounded. |
essentially involved in the very conception of them, is a conclusive objection to it. |
inflammations originate in bile, which is sometimes relieved by boils and swellings, but when detained, and above all when mingled with pure blood, generates many inflammatory disorders, disturbing the position of the fibres which are scattered about in |
when one king dies, another is needed; elections leave dangerous intervals and are full of storms; and unless the citizens are disinterested and upright to a degree which very seldom goes with this kind of government, intrigue and corruption abound. |
what speculative reason was able to think, but was obliged to leave undetermined as a mere transcendental ideal, viz., the theological conception of the first being, to this it gives significance (in a practical view, that is, as a condition of the |
the centre, therefore, being determinate, the upper place must also be determinate. but if these two places are determined and finite, the corresponding bodies must also be finite. |
and he made answer: "not according as astyages enjoined: for not even if he shall come to be yet more out of his senses and more mad than he now is, will i agree to his will or serve him in such a murder as this. |
wherefore my counsel is, that we hold fast ever to the heavenly way and follow after justice and virtue always, considering that the soul is immortal and able to endure every sort of good and every sort of evil. |
soon afterwards this same piso gave an equal proof of a fearless sense of wrong by suing urgulania, whom augusta's friendship had raised above the law. |
eighteen.eighteen.) from amongst their brethren like unto thee, and will put my words into his mouth," and this similitude with moses, is also apparent in the actions of our saviour himself, whilest he was conversant on earth. |
resemble not them, but that other which included them. |
not able to endure so great an indignity, he resolved in his anger to leave the city and go into exile; and so, having taken leave of his wife and his son, he went silently to the gate of the city, and, there stopping and turning round, stretched out his |
seventeen. what is meant by incommensurable lines? give an example from book two. |
to which let me add, that he who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to |
the answer which is given by plato is paradoxical enough, and seems rather intended to stimulate than to satisfy enquiry. virtue is knowledge, and therefore virtue can be taught. |
to this god gave a body, consisting at first of fire and earth, and afterwards receiving an addition of air and water; because solid bodies, like the world, are always connected by two middle terms and not by one. |
if, therefore, to be in itself is the place of the infinite, that also will be appropriate to the part. therefore it will remain in itself. |
dem.-let abcd, abcd be the two figures, p a point in the plane of abcd. |
"further, if we admit in the fullest sense that something exists apart from the concrete thing, whenever something is predicated of the matter, must there, if there is something apart, be something apart from each set of individuals, or from some and not |
squares ad, ck is equal to twice the figure ak, together with the figure gh. |
the matter and the shape, are parts of what is contained. |
a security that was not far from disdain and contempt of them, the whole multitude then became angry, and gave evident signs of impatience and disgust; and sicinnius, the most violent of the tribunes, after a little private conference with his colleagues, |
if it be said, that wise men of all nations came to have true conceptions of the unity and infinity of the deity, i grant it. but then this, |
we might as well maintain that greek art was not real or great, because it had nihil simile aut secundum, as say that greek physics were a failure because they admire no subsequent progress. |
prop. one. substance is by nature prior to its modifications. |
two. prove that af is perpendicular to de. |
deities, and so additional sanctity ought to be given to a spot where heaven showed such honour to the emperor. |
things are said to be in contact when their extremities are together. |
we have been friends from the beginning: to us are grief, gruesomeness, and ground common; even the sun is common to us. |
but they have never explained in detail the shapes of the various elements, except so far to allot the sphere to fire. |
(a) in one sense, then, we call 'heaven' the substance of the extreme circumference of the whole, or that natural body whose place is at the extreme circumference. |
indeed, socrates, to confess the truth, i am. |
it follows that courage involves pain and is justly praised, since it is a harder matter to withstand things that are painful than to abstain from such as are pleasant. |
one. parallel planes intercept equal segments on parallel lines. |
and this goes so far, that even those who cannot enjoy this pleasure immediately, nor can believe those miraculous events, of which they are informed, yet love to partake of the satisfaction at second-hand or by rebound, and place a pride and delight in |
and being grievously troubled by the misfortune he called upon zeus the cleanser, protesting to him that which he had suffered from his guest, and he called moreover upon the protector of suppliants thirty seven and the guardian of friendship, thirty |
as to the generals, their immediate concern was to try and gain some information as to seuthes: "was he hostile or friendly? also, would they have to march through the sacred mountain (one), or round about through the middle of thrace?" |
the multitude thereupon applauding him, and shouting, he was so transported at it, that he forgot a quail which he had under his robe, and the bird, being frighted with the noise, flew off; upon which the people made louder acclamations than before, and |
any one who has stated that it is a property of 'fire' to 'bear a very close resemblance to the soul', uses the term 'soul', which is less intelligible than 'fire'-for we know better what fire is than what soul is-, and therefore a 'very close resemblance |
he passes abruptly from persons to ideas and numbers, and from ideas and numbers to persons,-from the heavens to man, from astronomy to physiology; he confuses, or rather does not distinguish, subject and object, first and final causes, and is dreaming of |
in fine then, that is involuntary which is done through ignorance, or which, not resulting from ignorance, is not in the agent's control or is done on compulsion. |
one-not in an accidental sense (i.e. it must be one as the white that blackens is one or coriscus who walks is one, not in the accidental sense in which coriscus and white may be one), nor merely in virtue of community of nature (for there might be a case |
if a butler or an errand boy with such a character were offered to us we would not take him as a free gift. and if he would not accept an intemperate slave, what pains should the master himself take to avoid that imputation. |
for if the infinite could traverse the finite, the finite could traverse the infinite; for it makes no difference which of the two is the thing in motion; either case involves the traversing of the infinite by the finite. |
again, as air is lighter than water, so is water than earth: how then can they think that the naturally lighter substance lies below the heavier? |
their ambition is to rule you, their object to use the suspicions that we excite to unite you, and then, when we have gone away without effecting anything, by force or through your isolation, to become the masters of sicily. |
appointed spaces to run through! the sight of which doubtless urged and encouraged those ancient philosophers to exercise their investigating spirit on many other things. |
movement as 'before' and 'after'. here, too there is a correspondence with the point; for the point also both connects and terminates the length-it is the beginning of one and the end of another. |
a young man was talking a great deal of nonsense, and he said to him, "this is the reason why we have two ears and only one mouth, that we may hear more and speak less." |
the more we resign and commit ourselves to god, and the more we renounce ourselves, of the greater value we are. |
necessity is in the matter, while 'that for the sake of which' is in the definition. |
for just as people speak of 'a passing-away' without qualification when a thing has passed into what is imperceptible and what in that sense 'is not', so also they speak of 'a coming-to-be out of a not-being' when a thing emerges from an imperceptible. |
this is the common demand of mathematicians, who always assume as principles things finite either in kind or in number. |
in spite of this, however, upon my speaking on the conservative side, religion gained an easy victory over his plausible speech. |
and lastly, to say he spake by the holy spirit, as it signifieth the graces, or gifts of the holy spirit, is to attribute nothing to him supernaturall. |
she, for the fault of one offending foe, the bolts of jove himself presum'd to throw: with whirlwinds from beneath she toss'd the ship, and bare expos'd the bosom of the deep; then, as an eagle gripes the trembling game, the wretch, yet hissing with her |
the genus will then be found to partake of its own species: for, since of everything either an affirmation or its negation is true, length must always either lack breadth or possess it, so that 'length' as well, i.e. |
six. the three perpendiculars of a triangle are concurrent. |
made his utmost efforts to be declared dictator. cato perceiving his design, prevailed with the senate to make him sole consul, that with the offer of a more legal sort of monarchy he might be withheld from demanding the dictatorship. |
(twenty one) n.b.--in reference to this definition of justice, see k. joel, op. cit. p. three hundred twenty three foll., "das ist eine karrikatur des sokratischen dialogs." |
"i will not purchase hope with ready money," (or), "i do not purchase hope at a price." --terence, adelphi, ii. three, eleven. |
for some of the older philosophers thought that 'what is' must of necessity be 'one' and immovable. |
def. two points, such as f and p, the rectangle of whose distances of, op from the centre is equal to the square of the radius, are called inverse points with respect to the circle. |
when a man is inspired by virtue such as this, what bribes can you offer him, what treasures, what thrones, what empires? he considers these but mortal goods, and esteems his own divine. |
respecting the harmonies of sound i must hereafter speak. |
galen reports, that a man happened to be cured of a leprosy by drinking wine out of a vessel into which a viper had crept by chance. |
nor is it always seasonable to be studying astronomy, but it is more honourable to exhibit a regard for one's country. |
it is no dream of mine, to ornament a line; i cannot come nearer to god and heaven than i live to walden even. |
beneficially effective against mischievous errors. this is a form of the argument for religious intolerance, sufficiently remarkable not to be passed without notice. |
that which is per se cause of the effect is determinate, but the incidental cause is indeterminable, for the possible attributes of an individual are innumerable. |
"the lunar halo arises from the fact of the air, which moves towards the moon from all quarters, uniformly intercepting the rays emitted by this star, in such a way as to form around it a sort of circular cloud which partially veils it. |
inviting them to help and join in the struggle; in true oligarchical fashion he fights with a small part only of his resources, and the result commonly is that he loses the prize and saves his money. |
the heart, the knot of the veins and the fountain of the blood which races through all the limbs, was set in the place of guard, that when the might of passion was roused by reason making proclamation of any wrong assailing them from without or being |
the difficulty which plato feels, is that which all of us feel, and which is increased in our own day by the progress of physical science, how the responsibility of man is to be reconciled with his dependence on natural causes. |
and all these things are a token that the nature of the world has been arranged by no ordinary wisdom. |
but this is conjecture rather than certain knowledge, for those that were by had not leisure to observe particulars, and were either killed fighting about crassus, or ran off at once to get to their comrades on the hill. |
one hundred seventy two. he who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds. |
then he fell upon a heap of gold-dust, and first he packed in by the side of his legs so much of the gold as his boots would contain, and then he filled the whole fold of the tunic with the gold and sprinkled some of the gold dust on the hair of his head |
the danger of miracles. "there shall arise," (saith he) "false christs, and false prophets, and shall doe great wonders and miracles, even to the seducing (if it were possible) of the very elect." (mat. twenty four. |
it seems indeed, to me, that fortune has managed this by the divine aid of the immortal gods, that, leaving the acts of caesar firmly ratified, the son of cnaeus pompeius might still be able to recover the dignities and fortunes of his father. |
(that is why a drop of wine does not 'combine' with ten thousand gallons of water: for its form is dissolved, and it is changed so as to merge in the total volume of water.) on the other hand (ii) when there is a certain equilibrium between their 'powers |
he does desire them, and restrains his enjoyment out of sordidness, he is miserable. i would fain know of cato himself, if we seek riches that we may enjoy them, why is he proud of having a great deal, and being contented with little? |
theaetetus: no, indeed, socrates; for if one admit the existence of parts in a syllable, it would be ridiculous in me to give up letters and seek for other parts. |
were it against reason so to get it, when it is impossible to receive hurt by it? and if it be not against reason, it is not against justice; or else justice is not to be approved for good. |
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