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one in a year, is worth l. and from the other possibly not worth a penny, if all the profit an indian received from it were to be valued, and sold here; at least, i may truly say, not one thousandth. |
in the next place, we must contrive to defend the spirit of one law, and the letter of the other. and so the rules which were just now given relating to the spirit and letter of the law may all be transferred to this subject. |
they were holding high feast in the house of boisterous zephyrus when iris came running up to the stone threshold of the house and stood there, but as soon as they set eyes on her they all came towards her and each of them called her to him, but iris |
they came up to the battlements at one of the intermediate spaces where they knew them to be unguarded: those who carried the ladders went first and planted them; next twelve light-armed soldiers with only a dagger and a breastplate mounted, led by |
'tis folly to fix all a man's thoughts upon it, and to engage in it with a furious and indiscreet affection; but, on the other hand, to engage there without love and without inclination, like comedians, to play a common part, without putting anything to |
let no more trouble shake thy heart, because thine eyes have seen my terror with my glory. as i before have been so will i be again for thee; with lightened heart behold! once more i am thy krishna, the form thou knew'st of old! |
sixteen. now of the land about which this account has been begun, no one knows precisely what lies beyond it: twenty for i am not able to hear of any one who alleges that he knows as an eye-witness; and even aristeas, the man of whom i was making mention |
"the virgin, astonished and attracted by the glittering apple, stops her career, and seizes the rolling gold." --ovid, metam., x. six hundred sixty six. |
divine service; a word drawn from the custom of the jews, to cast out of their synagogues, such as they thought in manners, or doctrine, contagious, as lepers were by the law of moses separated from the congregation of israel, till such time as they |
if milder remedies have proved useless he opens a vein; if the extremities are injuring the body and infecting it with disease he lays his hands upon the limbs; yet none of his treatment is considered harsh if its result is to give health. |
at which sparamizes smiling, said, "i do not grudge them to you, mithridates; but since the grecians tell us that wine and truth go together, let me hear now, my friend, what glorious or mighty matter was it to find some trappings that had slipped off a |
a so-called ether. thus animal magnetism supplied a sort of physical theory of the other world and the other life. jung-stilling, e.g. in his "theory of spirit-lore." |
like those who, from fear of a precipice, throw themselves headlong into it; |
the question which is most discussed is in what sense we are to understand the participation of private persons in state affairs. |
one is not properly said to envy--as when agamemnon grieves at hector's success; but where any one, who is in no way hurt by the prosperity of another, is in pain at his success, such a one envies indeed. |
also stewart's philosophy of the mind, part i, chapt. iv. sect. iii. p. ninety nine. |
thirty one absurd indeed would be the position that even the dead man is to change about with them and become at one time happy and at another miserable. |
that (it might seem) was a resource against rulers whose interests were habitually opposed to those of the people. |
to get the better of them. but that the governors ought to excel the governed is beyond a doubt; the legislator therefore ought to consider how this shall be, and how it may be contrived that all shall have their equal share in the administration. |
what could be better than to assert that fortune interferes but little with a wise man? |
to understand this progress as necessary we must consider not so much the motives for the establishment of the body politic, as the forms it assumes in actuality, and the faults that necessarily attend it: for the flaws which make social institutions |
the very man who lately proposed and carried a vote for a supplication, without intending it pronounced those men enemies; for a supplication has never been decreed for success in civil war. decreed, do i say? |
after this skirmish of the horse, they kept from fighting a long time; for the soothsayers, by the sacrifices, foretold the victory both to greeks and persians, if they stood upon the defensive part only, but if they became aggressors, the contrary. |
it is quite certain that claudius was so overwhelmed by terror that he repeatedly asked whether he was indeed in possession of the empire, whether silius was still a subject. |
now, however, the second exercise comes in, the living exhibition of morality of character by examples, in which attention is directed to purity of will, first only as a negative perfection, in so far as in an action done from duty no motives of |
one hundred one. as for the other kings, they could tell me of no great works which had been produced by them, and they said that they had no renown eighty five except only the last of them, moris: he (they said) produced as a memorial of himself the |
a and b to direct them how far to go in obeying christ. |
yet, when the enemy's fleet was arrived at the haven of phalerum, upon the coast of attica, and with the number of their ships concealed all the shore, and when they saw the king himself in person come down with his land army to the seaside, with all his |
matter, which is, then, when they will be seen, condensed. but both of them agree on one generall appellation of them, daemons. |
but even if i allow that the events of war are uncertain, and that the chances of mars are common to both sides, still it is worth while to fight for freedom at the peril of one's life. |
i could not therefore omit to make use of this clue with regard to one of the most abstract ontological divisions, viz., the various distinctions of "the notions of something and of nothing," and to construct accordingly (critique, p. |
--a present which appears to me to be appropriate, as well because it is the work of a gentleman of mark,-- meaning xenophon. |
i do not much less suspect my fancies for being the second or the third, than for being the first, or present, or past; we often correct ourselves as foolishly as we do others. |
meanwhile the phokians stood facing them gathered together and with their ranks closed as much as possible every way. then the horsemen turned and rode away back. |
was not his wife, then nothing is due to her." |
there is no need to discuss in exact detail the things that happen contrary to nature, nor to ask whether they happen in some sense naturally or from some other cause; it would seem that chance is at least partly the cause of such events. |
ho shih notes three occasions on which converted spies were used with conspicuous success: (one) by t'ien tan in his defence of chi-mo (see supra , p. ninety); (two) by chao she on his march to o-yu (see p. |
for precepts for embellishing, and praising, and blaming, have partly been already given by us, and partly will be given hereafter in their proper place. |
the long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually |
seeing then that now i myself too think that things are so, we have need of good counsel, in order that our retreat homewards may be safely made." |
this he said with the greatest passion, shedding tears as he spoke; upon which erasistratus, taking him by the hand, replied, "in that case, you have no need of erasistratus; for you, who are the husband, the father, and the king, are the proper physician |
which being said, the surgeons, at the same time, opened the veins of both their arms, but as those of seneca were more shrunk up, as well with age as abstinence, made his blood flow too slowly, he moreover commanded them to open the veins of his thighs; |
meanwhile the senate, as they were now on the eve of the quinquennial contest, wishing to avert scandal, offered the emperor the "victory in song," and added the "crown of eloquence," that thus a veil might be thrown over a shameful exposure on the stage. |
and about the time of renewing the watch towards morning, there appeared a great light over caesar's camp, whilst they were all at rest, and from thence a ball of flaming fire was carried into pompey's camp, which caesar himself says he saw, as he was |
meantime, while the senate stooped to the most abject supplication, tiberius happened to say that although he was not equal to the whole burden of the state, yet he would undertake the charge of whatever part of it might be intrusted to him. |
it will at once be observed that in this table freedom is considered as a sort of causality not subject to empirical principles of determination, in regard to actions possible by it, which are phenomena in the world of sense, and that consequently it is |
this extremely concise expression is intelligibly paraphrased by chia lin: "even though we have constructed neither wall nor ditch." |
glory. again his brother drusus enjoyed in a greater degree the affection of the citizens. but he was more than ever on dangerous ground after his marriage with julia, whether he tolerated or escaped from his wife's profligacy. |
one who acts unjustly towards the community. |
and this will always happen in every oligarchy where the magistrates do not elect themselves, but are chosen out of men either of great fortune or certain ranks, by the soldiers or by the people; as was the custom at abydos. |
the ambassadors ought to have brought us back courage, they have brought us back fear. |
most persons think that it is necessary for a city to be large to be happy: but, should this be true, they cannot tell what is a large one and what a small one; for according to the multitude of the inhabitants they estimate the greatness of it; but they |
if, for example, we take the pure conceptions of relation, we find that (one) for the purpose of presenting to the conception of substance something permanent in intuition corresponding thereto and thus of demonstrating the objective reality of this |
burden to others. at the emperor's bidding i married. behold the offspring and progeny of a succession of consuls and dictators. not to excite odium do i recall such facts, but to win compassion. |
soc. but tell me, did he teach you how to draw up troops in general, or specifically where and how to apply each particular kind of tactical arrangement? |
and the more rude among them used to be angry with their children, to see them, as they walked together, receiving cicero with respect into the middle place. |
it is shown by all the poets except those who sometimes had recourse to a hiatus in order to finish their verse; as naevius-- |
hence it is not, as is commonly imagined, enough for experience to compare perceptions and to connect them in consciousness through judgment; there arises no universality and necessity, for which alone judgments can become objectively valid and be called |
magistrate. but if an equality of goods is established, this may be either too much, when it enables the people to live luxuriously, or too little, when it obliges them to live hard. |
and so with any other charge: the accused must be either open or not open to it: there is in either case an appearance of probable innocence, but whereas in the latter case the probability is genuine, in the former it can only be asserted in the special |
prop. thirty three. men can differ in nature, in so far as they are assailed by those emotions, which are passions, or passive states; and to this extent one and the same man is variable and inconstant. |
the night being come (and such as one may presume must follow such a battle), and the armies laid to rest, they say that the grove shook, and uttered a voice, saying that the tuscans had lost one man more than the romans; clearly a divine announcement; |
"each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole. " |
friendship with solemn oaths, should return together into italy. |
of the events of his life which transpired after he attained man's estate we know but little beyond that which he himself has recorded in his writings. |
nostrils should be idle, the very place in which, they solemnize three the rites of luxury is scented with various perfumes. you will say that these men live in the midst of pleasures. |
the causes why the blusterous winds vex ocean's tranquil face, whose hand doth turn the stable globe, or why his even race from out the ruddy east the sun unto the western waves doth run: |
the first appearance is formed by the syllogism, which is based on the logical system as starting-point, with nature for the middle term which couples the mind with it. the logical principle turns to nature and nature to mind. |
amongst other points asserts itself, maintains itself. it has a character of its own, but that character it only shows in and through a development conditioned by external influences. |
all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, obominable, inutterable, and worse than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. |
only on some few particular days in the year. |
if only she had had the simple-minded ancients to admire her virtues, how many brilliant intellects would have vied with one another in singing the praises of a wife who forgot the weakness of her sex, forgot the perils of the sea, which terrify even the |
cicero, therefore, came forward, and said there was no need of speeches; and after producing and examining witnesses, he required the judges to proceed to sentence. however, many witty sayings are on record, as having been used by cicero on the occasion. |
strings are matter and material, composite, earthy, and akin to mortality? |
let him sequester himself, from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth. |
it will make no disturbance, it will give you no warning of how fast it flies: it will move silently on: it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the wish of a nation: as it started on its first day, so it will run: it will never turn |
i have formerly seen men, brought hither by sea from very distant countries, whose language not being understood by us, and moreover their mien, countenance, and habit, being quite differing from ours; which of us did not repute them savages and brutes! |
chorus. (str. two) against thy will no man shall drive thee hence. |
animate to inanimate things; things natural to things not natural; things skilfully produced by art to things with which art has no connexion. |
however, i prefer to leave such questions undiscussed, lest i should give ground to the superstitious for raising new issues. |
as to the intuitions of other thinking beings, we cannot judge whether they are or are not bound by the same conditions which limit our own intuition, and which for us are universally valid. |
forasmuch as every one has not the firmness of fabius against common, adverse, and injurious tongues, who rather suffered his authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of men, than to do less well in his charge with a favourable reputation and the |
eighty five anemon strumonien , "the wind called strymonias." |
for all other kind of hindrances that are not hindrances of thy mind either they are proper to the body, or merely proceed from the opinion, reason not making that resistance that it should, but basely, and cowardly suffering itself to be foiled; and of |
those who attended even to the merest trifles, would not disguise their responsibility for important affairs." |
were taken as it is, as everything, as the endless lot of empirical existence, then it would hardly have been even held possible to suppose a pantheism which asserted of such stuff that it is god. |
"the more courageous from the deliberation to die." --horace, od., i. thirty seven, twenty nine. |
but that which is necessary is wider than the syllogism: for every syllogism is necessary, but not everything which is necessary is a syllogism. |
moment creates fresh ones when it pleases. such superabundance in the realm of sense and of triviality contributes nothing to form the real wealth of a cultivated language. |
secondly, if it be a law that obliges only some condition of men, or one particular man and be not written, nor published by word, then also it is a law of nature; and known by the same arguments, and signs, that distinguish those in such a condition, |
the grounds on which we must base our arguments, when we are speaking for or against a proposal, have now been set forth more or less completely. |
yes, that is very likely, cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the good, but of the evil, which are compelled to wander about such places in payment of the penalty of their former evil way of life; and they continue to wander until through the |
she hath taken away her friends, and left thee thine ? what price wouldst thou not have given for this service in the fulness of thy prosperity when thou seemedst to thyself fortunate? |
factions; but they do not consider, that to purchase the glory of sallust, i would not give myself the trouble, sworn enemy as i am to obligation, assiduity, or perseverance: that there is nothing so contrary to my style, as a continued narrative, i so |
thus it is in the case of those opposites only, which are opposite in the sense in which the term is used with reference to affirmation and negation, that the rule holds good, that one of the pair must be true and the other false. |
or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. this is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness. |
it would not be difficult to show that this was one of the principal causes of the ruin of the roman empire. |
the first enumeration of all the bookes, both of the old, and new testament, is in the canons of the apostles, supposed to be collected by clement the first (after st. peter) bishop of rome. |
this let me crave, since near your grove the road to hell lies open, and the dark abode which acheron surrounds, th' innavigable flood; conduct me thro' the regions void of light, and lead me longing to my father's sight. |
importance, and grief stands in the way of that which at the moment is most required. |
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