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who praises an old man, and pronounces him happy because he was unknown to fame and seemed likely to arrive at the hour of death in obscurity and without notice. |
money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave; and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his friend the basin, desiring him to turn it |
"molliter austerum studio fallente laborem." |
imagined, that the religious worship now in use, was brought into the church, by misunderstanding of the scripture. |
in plain truth, these men are very savage in comparison of us; of necessity, they must either be absolutely so or else we are savages; for there is a vast difference betwixt their manners and ours. |
pains or preparations whatever? and yet it would appear that the latter concerns must be more difficult of achievement than the former, in proportion as there are more competitors in the field but fewer who reach the goal of their ambition, which is as |
ye are not eagles: thus have ye never experienced the happiness of the alarm of the spirit. and he who is not a bird should not camp above abysses. |
till possession be taken, a man that knows himself subject to this infirmity, should leisurely and by degrees make several little trials and light offers, without obstinately attempting at once, to force an absolute conquest over his own mutinous and |
oligarchy in the place of the rascally democracy that had banished him, he would be glad to return to his country and to make tissaphernes their friend), the captains and chief men in the armament at once embraced the idea of subverting the democracy. |
i am led to entertain this confidence, not by vanity, but by the evidence which the equality of the result affords, when we proceed, first, from the simplest elements up to the complete whole of pure reason and, and then, backwards from the whole to each |
to lust), look at that man! though free, he runs into bondage. |
now if cambyses when he perceived this had changed his plan and led his army back, he would have been a wise man in spite of twenty two his first mistake; as it was, however, he paid no regard, but went on forward without stopping. |
did not rise, but behaved himself to them as if they had been private men, and told them his honors wanted rather to be retrenched than increased. |
socrates: then rhetoric does not treat of all kinds of discourse? |
true opinion, and not knowledge; for knowledge, as has been already remarked, is not attained until, combined with true opinion, there is an enumeration of the elements out of which anything is composed. |
to us; if we dilate upon the inconveniences which have already befallen us, or the difficulties which are still impending over us; if we have recourse to prayers and to humble and suppliant entreaty. |
worth less than all future time. but if the preeminence in that which relates to the office and virtues of a general, should be determined by the greatest and most important acts and counsels of war, the lacedaemonian would not a little exceed the roman. |
now rageth my hammer ruthlessly against its prison. from the stone fly the fragments: what's that to me? |
either knows not the extent of her power, or neglects human affairs, or cannot judge what is best for us. |
holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, i saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of |
to which, in the first instance, the master answered: "do i not seem to you to have been practising that my whole life long?" and upon his asking "how?" |
remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! thus do i pray and conjure you. |
of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions |
(two) and as far as i can see, this principle holds generally: the natural differences of one man from another may be compensated by artificial progress, the result of care and attention. |
we talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals. conversation is an evanescent relation,-no more. |
with fraud yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition yet do we find any end of the need of interpretating? |
would take them-even so these men, though they be but two, will not be driven from the gates, but stand firm either to slay or be slain." |
no one was allowed to live after his own fancy; but the city was a sort of camp, in which every man had his share of provisions and business set out, and looked upon himself not so much born to serve his own ends as the interest of his country. |
this is yet more strange, that custom, notwithstanding long intermissions and intervals, should yet have the power to unite and establish the effect of its impressions upon our senses, as is manifest in such as live near unto steeples and the frequent |
these captives he sent off to the king without the knowledge of the rest of the allies, the account being that they had escaped from him. he managed this with the help of gongylus, an eretrian, whom he had placed in charge of byzantium and the prisoners. |
lydians to this effect, that if the oracle should give answer that he was to be king of the lydians, he should be king, and if not, he should give back the power to the sons of heracles. |
what stately ram thus measures o'er the ground, and master of the flock surveys them round? what citizen of assos, dull and cold, fond of long words, a mouth-piece, but not bold. ninety eight |
(five) leon of salamis. see "hell." two. iii. thirty nine; plat. "apol." thirty two one hundred; andoc. "de myst." forty six. |
xx., whereof the proof is of universal application). but the idea a is supposed to be referred to god, in so far as he is displayed through the human mind; therefore, the idea of the idea a must be referred to god in the same manner; that is (by two. xi. |
he thus inquired, but the god again declared to them the same answer, bidding them deliver up pactyas to the persians. |
if a thing is good, it is proved that it is not good, if an animal, that it is not an animal because the syllogism springs out of a contradiction and the terms presupposed are either identical or related as whole and part. |
the latter is that which we call the law of a common-weal, the very soul of a politic body, the parts whereof are by law animated, held together, and set on work in such actions as the common good requireth. |
cupping-glasses, that only suck and attract bad blood. |
oedipus. tell me, my daughter, has the stranger gone? |
even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honourable: but their time is past. and not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. |
socrates: and the space of four feet is made from this half line? |
difficult to others' apprehensions in my way of treating them; so it is, that my meaning, i find, is often mistaken, and i have not the good luck to be everywhere rightly understood. |
here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek in golgotha him dead, who lives in heaven; and they, who to be sure of paradise, dying, put on the weeds of dominick, or in franciscan think to pass disguised; they pass the planets seven, and pass the |
and is death the assertion of this individuality in the higher nature, and the falling away into nothingness of the lower? or are we vainly attempting to pass the boundaries of human thought? |
i give her caution that, of all sorts of people, those will be the worst that shall set her in discord; i have no fear for her, but of herself, and, certainly, i have as much fear for her as for any other part of the kingdom. |
but when an argument is derived from a genus, then it will not be necessary to trace it back to its origin, we may often stop on this side of that point, provided that which is deduced is higher than that for which it is deduced, as, "rain water in its |
syracusans were allowed to go unpunished for their depopulation of leontini, to ruin the allies still left to athens in sicily, and to get the whole power of the island into their hands, there would be a danger of their one day coming with a large force, |
defined it correctly, for to a synonymous term the definition should apply in its full range), whereas in answering you should yourself distinguish between the senses. |
to an atheist all writings tend to atheisim: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom. these have their judgments so prepossessed that they cannot relish sebond's reasons. |
when not only the fire was extinguished, but the altar demolished, then, afterwards, in kindling this fire again, it was esteemed an impiety to light it from common sparks or flame, or from any thing but the pure and unpolluted rays of the sun, which they |
timber and wooden palisades, went on and spread into all quarters. |
in such a matter we must not be always afraid of something being wasted or running over in our measure, or of more than is justly due being devoted to our friendship. |
well, he said, that was surely an extraordinary drink to be given to a person in his condition. |
chang yu paraphrases the latter part of the sentence and continues: "whenever there is fighting to be done, the keenest spirits should be appointed to serve in the front ranks, both in order to strengthen the resolution of our own men and to demoralize |
we may compare the opinion that the older actors entertained of their successors. mynniscus used to call callippides 'ape' on account of the extravagance of his action, and the same view was held of pindarus. |
the fig-tree, of all the trees that grow; of the devarshis, narada; and chitrarath of them that sing in heaven, and kapila of munis, and the gem of flying steeds, uchchaisravas, from amrit-wave which burst; of elephants airavata; of males the best and |
synthetical unity that i can think to myself the analytical. |
meanwhile athenagoras, the leader of the people and very powerful at that time with the masses, came forward and spoke as follows: |
and lo! then hast thou its name in common with the people, and hast become one of the people and the herd with thy virtue! |
if those are not enough, i will now reveal an advantage arising from the greatness of your dominion, which i think has never yet suggested itself to you, which i never mentioned in my previous speeches, and which has so bold a sound that i should scarce |
an altered word is one in which part of the ordinary form is left unchanged, and part is re-cast; as in delta epsilon xi iota-tau epsilon rho omicron nu kappa alpha tau alpha mu alpha zeta omicron nu , delta epsilon xi iota tau epsilon rho omicron nu is |
ninety four tous irenas . spartans between twenty and thirty years old were so called. the mss. have ireas . |
of the first to be met with, but enough of the last everywhere. |
i say, his anger refuses to be excited by them. |
as to the variety and weakness of the rationale of this art, they are more manifest in it than in any other art; aperitive medicines are proper for a man subject to the stone, by reason that opening and dilating the passages they help forward the slimy |
once, now misery hath joined in equal ruin; into what pit thou seest from what height fallen: so much the stronger proved he with his thunder; and till then who knew the force of those dire arms? |
ituraea and judaea, on the death of their kings, sohaemus and agrippa, were annexed to the province of syria. |
"that which was once a sterile marsh, and bore vessels on its bosom, now feeds neighbouring cities, and admits the plough." --horace, de arte poetica, v. sixty five. |
sect. two hundred thirty three. but if any one should ask, must the people then always lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny? |
everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution-it is called pregnancy. |
artistotle saith there is a kind of insect near the river hypanis, which runs from a certain part of europe into the pontus, whose life consists but of one day; those that die at the eighth hour die in full age; those who die when the sun sets are very |
and so now, also, lamachus, who better understood military affairs, being quite his subordinate, he himself, evermore delaying and avoiding risk, and faintly employing his forces, first by his sailing about sicily at the greatest distance aloof from the |
of his revelations; and amongst them, above all, he recommended to the veneration of the romans one in particular, whom he named tacita, the silent; which he did perhaps in imitation and honor of the pythagorean silence. |
it is also absurd to say, that in an oligarchy there are two cities, one of the poor and another of the rich; for why should this happen to them more than to the lacedaemonians, or any other state where all possess not equal property, or where all are not |
amid the main, two mighty fleets engage their brazen beaks, oppos'd with equal rage. actium surveys the well-disputed prize; leucate's wat'ry plain with foamy billows fries. |
ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence, nor testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory. |
all this does not sound very ill, and the last was not at all amiss, for they wear no breeches. |
more hostile: and these two things are--the land and the sea. |
i am quick to turn my leathern shield either to right or left, for this i deem the main thing in battle. |
but when ulysses, with fallacious arts, had made impression in the people's hearts, and forg'd a treason in my patron's name (i speak of things too far divulg'd by fame), my kinsman fell. |
continue there still; and he himself marched to argos with a small body of men. |
and they say, that not only are the wise free, but that they are also kings, since kingly power is an irresponsible dominion, which can only exist in the case of the wise man, as chrysippus says in his treatise on the proper application of his terms made |
fastned at one end, to the lips of that man, or assembly, to whom they have given the soveraigne power; and at the other end to their own ears. |
business a kind of entertainment, to bring in their own. nay, some undertake suits, with a full purpose to let them fall; to the end to gratify the adverse party, or competitor. |
conferred the chief power on another, and the most unjust, because on account of that dinner he had reduced the medes to slavery. |
their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society. it is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects. |
knowledge and opinion of the same thing can co-exist in two different people in the sense we have explained, but not simultaneously in the same person. that would involve a man's simultaneously apprehending, e.g. (one) that man is essentially animal-i.e. |
therefore publicola, having promulgated this law in favor of appeal to the people, immediately ordered the axes to be removed from the fasces, which the lictors carried before the consuls, and the next day appointed spurius lucretius for his colleague. |
way. thus both those who have committed wrong against us will have the yoke of slavery, and also those who have not committed wrong. |
twenty two. yet, how desirous he was of friendship, though at the same time he dreaded the treachery of friends, appears from the story of those two pythagoreans: one of these had been security for his friend, who was condemned to die; the other, to |
even if we cannot expect the mass of mankind to become disinterested, at any rate we observe in them a power of organization which fifty years ago would never have been suspected. |
but your purpose is this, to return to your country, to relieve your kinsmen of anxiety, to discharge the duties of a citizen, to marry, to beget children, to fill the usual magistracies. |
but when the minor premiss is negative, if it is problematic we shall have a syllogism by altering the premiss into its complementary affirmative, as before; but if it is necessary no syllogism can be formed. |
having done this, he left his hired soldiers in the enemy's country, to drive and carry away all they could throughout the subject-territory of carthage, and so marched with the rest of his army to syracuse, where he issued an edict for banishing the |
it nevertheless against their will; and after that they were to return to their own land and attack the enemy, if it should seem good to them in council so to do. |
(one) see the "dict. of antiq." six hundred twenty two a. hybreos graphe. in the case of common assaults as opposed to indecent assault, the prosecution seems to have been allowable only when the object of a wanton attack was a free person. cf. arist. |
for peace, while they make for conquest--the laws will insensibly lose their influence, the constitution will alter, and the state will have no rest from trouble till it is either destroyed or changed, and nature has resumed her invincible sway. |
so then 'capacity' can never be the genus of anything blameworthy. else, the result will be that what is blameworthy is sometimes desirable: for there will be a certain form of capacity that is blameworthy. |
for want of presence; i have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my seat. |
the government to check at the earliest moment. |
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