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he saw a jewish child circumcised, and wrote down a most minute account of the operation. he met at san sisto a muscovite ambassador, the second who had come to rome since the pontificate of paul three. |
by the end of that day they had not gone much more than three miles; but in the late afternoon they reached the villages. |
from the mere fact that god was set over every political society, it followed that there were as many gods as peoples. |
when he wanted to go to bed she told the servants to make one for him, but he said he was such a wretched outcast that he would not sleep on a bed and under blankets; he insisted on having an undressed bullock's hide and some sheepskins put for him in the |
in these also we must understand the expression 'possible' in the conclusion in the same way as before. |
units. six hundred twenty three thousand one hundred thirty seven |
thus did he speak, and lycaon's heart sank within him. |
an argument is derived from similarity, in this way: "if those houses have fallen down, or got into disrepair, a life-interest in which is bequeathed to some one, the heir is not bound to restore or to repair them, any more than he is bound to replace a |
number represents the period of the world, the second the period of the state, or of the human race as zeller supposes; nor is the divine number afterwards mentioned (arist.). |
rather spinoza would imply that all things which form a real unity must have life-must have inner principle and unifying reality: and what he teaches is closely akin to the leibnitian doctrine that every substantial existence reposes upon a monad, a unity |
increasing, though i felt none on my cheek, and i anticipated a thorough soaking. |
proportion of which the stature of men amounted to twenty feet; the third by fire, which burned and consumed all; the fourth by an emotion of the air and wind, which came with such violence as to beat down even many mountains, wherein the men died not, |
is the nature of it. for what every being is in its most perfect state, that certainly is the nature of that being, whether it be a man, a horse, or a house: besides, whatsoever produces the final cause and the end which we a desire, must be best; but a |
lovers of money, and the world in general; nor like the lovers of power and honour, because they dread the dishonour or disgrace of evil deeds. |
four. next in succession to euclides, came eubulides of miletus, who handed down a great many arguments in dialectics; such as the lying one; the concealed one; the electra; the veiled one; the sorites; the horned one; the bald one. |
again, they say that a thing has value, when in some point of view, it has a sort of intermediate power of aiding us to live conformably to nature; and under this class, we may range riches or good health, if they give any assistance to natural life. |
they will not inform against their associates, nor any one else. |
after this the athenians weighed from corcyra, and proceeded to cross to sicily with an armament now consisting of one hundred and thirty-four galleys in all (besides two rhodian fifty-oars), of which one hundred were athenian vessels-sixty men-of-war, |
to have, or not to have, one's emotions, one's for and against, according to choice; to lower oneself to them for hours; to seat oneself on them as upon horses, and often as upon asses:--for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as well as of |
what they would fain attain with all their strength, is the universal, green-meadow happiness of the herd, together with security, safety, comfort, and alleviation of life for every one, their two most frequently chanted songs and doctrines are called |
such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of god, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention. |
it was when they were doing the last part of the course on their way back towards the sea that their pace was strained to the utmost and it was seen what each could do. |
have been expressed by him if he had been interrogated about them. yet plato was not a mystic, nor in any degree affected by the eastern influences which afterwards overspread the alexandrian world. |
sometimes also people place the whole inside the part without detection, defining (e.g.) 'animal' as an 'animate body'; whereas the part is not predicated in any sense of the whole, so that 'body' could not be the genus of animal, seeing that it is a part. |
thirty six. thus then the men did, to whom this ungracious office belonged; and meanwhile other chief-constructors proceeded to make the bridges; and thus they made them:--they put together fifty-oared galleys and triremes, three hundred and sixty to be |
and you actually, so godlike is your piety, invent a new word to express it which has no existence in the latin language. |
this arranged, the lacedaemonians summoned their allies, and all voting for peace except the boeotians, corinthians, eleans, and megarians, who did not approve of these proceedings, they concluded the treaty and made peace, each of the contracting parties |
in the case of taste, there is nothing corresponding to the medium in the case of the senses previously discussed; but as the object of sight is colour, so the object of taste is flavour. |
nine. he was accustomed also to adopt young men as his sons, in order to derive assistance from them in his pleasures, and to be protected by their affection for him. |
from whence we may understand that every perturbation of the mind is founded in opinion. |
even the dead are not always secure from this criticism, especially if their example appears inimitable. even the moral law itself in its solemn majesty is exposed to this endeavour to save oneself from yielding it respect. |
certain other things that people hide only to show them chiefly knew himself to be mortal by this act dearness is a good sauce to meat each amongst you has made somebody cuckold eat your bread with the sauce of a more pleasing imagination evade this |
guilty of high-treason, both divine and human, should the justice of our arms fall into the power of injustice, and, after a few years' possession, take a quite contrary being. |
without the acquisition of more. and from hence it is, that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their endeavours to the assuring it a home by lawes, or abroad by wars: and when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire; in some, of fame from new |
taken this might remain, and the enemy have to throw up a fresh mound against it, and as they advanced within might not only have their trouble over again, but also be exposed to missiles on their flanks. |
such actions in nicias's life as thucydides and philistus have related, since they cannot be passed by, illustrating as they do most especially his character and temper, under his many and great troubles, that i may not seem altogether negligent, i shall |
phantasticall and false doctrines; and by such reputation (as is the nature of ambition,) to govern them for their private benefit. |
from which a son alone could absolve me." |
that was necessary, since the colchians, who had been ousted from their houses, were assembled thickly, and sat eyeing them from the heights above; on the other hand the trapezuntines, being friendly to the native inhabitants, were not for leading the |
fifty eight. again, of the goods which have reference to the mind, some are habits, some are dispositions, and some are neither habits nor dispositions. |
to conclude, he bred up his citizens in such a way that they neither would nor could live by themselves; they were to make themselves one with the public good, and, clustering like bees around their commander, be by their zeal and public spirit carried |
the search, replied cebes, shall certainly be made. and now, if you please, let us return to the point of the argument at which we digressed. |
the party of rescue now beat a retreat themselves with their face to the foe, exposed to a shower of missiles, to which some of the cretan bowmen responded with their arrows. in this way they all reached the camp in safety. |
this reply the prophetess gave them in hexameter verses, and it ran thus: |
if it proceeded in any other way, it would be impossible to make any headway, for mathematics proceeds, not analytically by dissection of concepts, but synthetically, and if pure intuition be wanting, there is nothing in which the matter for synthetical |
but by my love and hope i conjure thee: cast not away the hero in thy soul! maintain holy thy highest hope!- |
a position can be stormed, it must be attempted; and if consistent with military operations, the ruler's commands must be obeyed." but there are circumstances which sometimes forbid a general to use these advantages. |
quare in tranquillo tempestatem adversam optare dementis est, subvenire autem tempestati quavis ratione sapientis, eoque magis, si plus adipiscare re explicata boni quam addubitata mali. |
twenty four. i have said enough about propositions. there are now a few things which require to be said about causes. for they have many things in common with propositions. |
dogma and sole theme of a god who is known in spirit and in truth. and yet in catholicism this spirit of all truth is in actuality set in rigid opposition to the self-conscious spirit. |
in the age of plato there was no regular mode of publication, and an author would have the less scruple in altering or adding to a work which was known only to a few of his friends. |
still there was no variety in them, because nearly all their sentences were terminated in one manner. |
echecrates: yes, and equally of ourselves, who were not of the company, and are now listening to your recital. but what followed? |
and the violences, oppressions, and injuries they do, are not extenuated, but aggravated by the greatnesse of their persons; because they have least need to commit them. the consequences of this partiality towards the great, proceed in this manner. |
whilst he was thus diverting himself and engaged in this boys' play, two dispatches arrived; one from rome, that his brother lucius and his wife fulvia, after many quarrels among themselves, had joined in war against caesar, and, having lost all, had fled |
matter and shape,) for the shape is the end, and only that which attains an end is complete.-(four) as the form from its part, e.g. |
the lincoln hills rose up around me at the extremity of a snowy plain, in which i did not remember to have stood before; and the fishermen, at an indeterminable distance over the ice, moving slowly about with their wolfish dogs, passed for sealers or |
i have adopted this division because causes seem to be divisible into nature, necessity, chance, and moreover intellect, and all human powers. |
these two last, envy and anger, not being caused by pain and pleasure simply in themselves, but having in them some mixed considerations of ourselves and others, are not therefore to be found in all men, because those other parts, of valuing their merits, |
paul, not to prove that the general measure of what men called virtue and vice throughout the world was the reputation and fashion of each particular society within itself; but to show that, though it were so, yet, for reasons i there give, men, in that |
draw a crowd about him; he will also recite in a multitude, but that will be against his inclination; he will pronounce dogmas, and will express no doubts; he will be the same man asleep and awake; and he will be willing even to die for a friend. |
for instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned. |
one unlearneth men when one liveth amongst them: there is too much foreground in all men-what can far-seeing, far-longing eyes do there! |
preserve, i beseech you, o romans, this attribute which your ancestors have left you as a sort of inheritance. |
he would deprive men of a familiar term which they can ill afford to lose; but he seems not to have observed that this alteration is merely verbal and does not in any degree affect the nature of things. |
sixty three. thus had ariston brought into his house the third wife, having dismissed the second: and this wife, not having fulfilled the ten months forty seven but in a shorter period of time, bore him that demaratos of whom we were speaking; and one of |
he too will be apt to depreciate their application to the arts. |
one hundred thirty five. thus gobryas advised; and after this, when night came on, dareios acted on this opinion. |
it must not be physical but metaphysical knowledge, viz., knowledge lying beyond experience. it can therefore have for its basis neither external experience, which is the source of physics proper, nor internal, which is the basis of empirical psychology. |
for of all measures the heroic is the stateliest and the most massive; and hence it most readily admits rare words and metaphors, which is another point in which the narrative form of imitation stands alone. |
make up the comeliness. beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, |
modes, of a dozen, a gross, a million. simple modes of idea of space. |
why do you seek it without? in the body? it is not there. if you doubt, look at myro, look at ophellius. in possessions? it is not there. |
solon, however, himself, says that it was reluctantly at first that he engaged in state affairs, being afraid of the pride of one party and the greediness of the other; he was chosen archon, however, after philombrotus, and empowered to be an arbitrator |
it was so tragical a sight, that brutus could not endure to see it, but wept at the very relation of it, and proclaimed a reward to any soldier that could save a xanthian. |
'less', less than that which is greater. |
but may remain for a for some time, nay even for a long time, if the constitution be sound at the time of death, and the season of the year favourable? |
is more than one science of flute-playing as well: for all these seem to be alike and akin. |
god for that purpose, by the authority of the king, or other true representant of the church. |
experience, we shall use only their schemata, as the key to their proper application, instead of the categories, or rather the latter as restricting conditions, under the title of "formulae" of the former. |
the unwritten law which prohibits members of the same family from such intercourse is strictly obeyed, and no thought of anything else ever enters into the minds of men in general. a little word puts out the fire of their lusts. 'what is it?' |
it may be doubted, however, whether this train of reflection is well founded. in a remarkable passage of the laws it is acknowledged that the evil may form a correct estimate of the good. the union of gentleness and courage in book ii. |
they then laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had to eat and drink, ulysses said to demodocus, "demodocus, there is no one in the world whom one admire more than i do you. |
the conception itself is always produced a priori, together with the synthetical principles or formulas from such conceptions; but the proper employment of them, and their application to objects, can exist nowhere but in experience, the possibility of |
our justice cannot expect that he, whom the fear of dying by being beheaded or hanged will not restrain, should be any more awed by the imagination of a languishing fire, pincers, or the wheel. |
on this representation of plato's the criticism has been made, that the analogy of disease and injustice is partial only, and that suffering, instead of improving men, may have just the opposite effect. |
he says that this produced a most horrid spectacle the natural affection betwixt the parents and their children, and moreover their zeal to their ancient belief, contending against this violent decree, fathers and mothers were commonly seen making |
he left the house as he spoke, and went back to piraeus who gave him welcome, but the suitors kept looking at one another and provoking telemachus by laughing at the strangers. |
ionians to break up the floating bridge and to accompany him by land, as well as the rest of the troops which were in the ships: and when the ionians were just about to break it up and to do that which he commanded, coes the son of erxander, who was |
if we are to believe some profound seekers after truth, life is all torment: we are flung, as it were, into this deep and rough sea, whose tides ebb and flow, at one time raising us aloft by sudden accessions of fortune, at another bringing down low by |
after this pattern socrates behaved himself, and so he exhorted others to behave, holding them to be but busybodies and vain fellows who acted on any different principle. |
nine. even here, when i was in the city and at home, nevertheless many attempts were made against me, in a place where i have not only the fidelity of my friends but the eyes also of the entire city to guard me. |
itaque praeclarum a maioribus accepimus morem rogandi iudicis, si eum teneremus, quae salva fide facere possit. |
and the state is no more bound to leave civil authority in the hands of its rulers than military authority in the hands of its generals. |
nor is it enough for the security, which men desire should last all the time of their life, that they be governed, and directed by one judgement, for a limited time; as in one battell, or one warre. |
one another, out of emulation of honour and worth, whether in the exercises of the body or in those of the mind, wherein sovereign greatness can have no true part. |
for, having in his youth first become familiar with cratylus and with the heraclitean doctrines (that all sensible things are ever in a state of flux and there is no knowledge about them), these views he held even in later years. |
in the second place, that which is known as 'an x' is more desirable than that which does not come within the genus 'x'-e.g. |
you imply that the two questions must be combined, i replied. now i meant that you should admit the utility; and in this way, as i thought, i should escape from one of them, and then there would remain only the possibility. |
still stretched across but broken up by a storm. |
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