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the inhabitants must have food: secondly, arts, for many instruments are necessary in life: thirdly, arms, for it is necessary that the community should have an armed force within themselves, both to support their government against those of their own |
there remain with his company, and sustain the charge of mardonius. |
the left side, with which correspond in the same manner two canals in size equal to or larger than the preceding, viz., the venous artery ( arteria venosa ), likewise inappropriately thus designated, because it is simply a vein which comes from the lungs, |
aristotle's mixed constitution springs from a recognition of sectional interests in the state. |
for that other is more elegant in form, and more generally known, which was made by the same archimedes, and deposited by the same marcellus in the temple of virtue at rome. |
but cleomenes sailed from aegialia, landed in libya, and being honorably conducted through the king's country, came to alexandria. |
the athenians, they say, were doing thus; and meanwhile they themselves (say the eginetans), being informed that the athenians were about to make an expedition against them, got the argives to help them; and just when the athenians had disembarked upon |
but what gave the greatest fear to the nobles was, that he was thought privy to the conspiracy of catiline, and not to dislike it, because of his great debts. |
forty seven. and they say that enunciation is the manifestation of the ideal perception; and these enunciations the stoics pronounce some to be perfect in themselves, and some to be defective; now those are defective, which furnish an incomplete sense, as |
euth. yes, so it strikes me: he who knows not his own ability knows not himself. |
but the response to the changes of the seasons and hours of the day is found only in faint changes of mood, which come expressly to the fore only in morbid states (including insanity) and at periods when the self-conscious life suffers depression. |
affirm that we are the criminals and yourselves pretend to escape justice. not so, if these your judges decide aright, but you will be punished for all together. |
seventeen. philosophical meaning of "material substance" divisible into two parts.--if we inquire into what the most accurate philosophers declare themselves to mean by material substance, we shall find them acknowledge they have no other meaning annexed |
but besides this, the solicitude of doing well, and a certain striving and contending of a mind too far strained and overbent upon its undertaking, breaks and hinders itself like water, that by force of its own pressing violence and abundance, cannot find |
that bodies should tend towards the centre of the earth is not thought strange, because it is what we perceive every moment of our lives. |
another doctrine of the stoics is, that there is nothing intermediate between virtue and vice; while the peripatetics assert that there is a stage between virtue and vice, being an improvement on vice which has not yet arrived at virtue. |
"so the she-bear, fiercer after the blow from the lybian's thong- hurled dart, turns round upon the wound, and attacking the received spear, twists it, as she flies."--lucan, vi. two hundred twenty. |
of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. |
setting their mind then on this, they came round and enclosed them in the middle. |
at magus next he threw: he stoop'd below the flying spear, and shunn'd the promis'd blow; then, creeping, clasp'd the hero's knees, and pray'd: "by young iulus, by thy father's shade, o spare my life, and send me back to see my longing sire, and tender |
three. it used to be a common saying of his that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words, but that words are put together for the sake of things. |
"fear not," replied ulysses, "let no thought of death be in your mind; but tell me, and tell me true, why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships, while other men are sleeping? |
latter, something else must exist in the former, which could not be understood from its own existence alone? for this is the very essence of community-which is inconceivable as a property of things which are perfectly isolated. |
to pass from the seat, to the house itself; we will do as cicero doth in the orator's art; who writes books de oratore, and a book he entitles orator; whereof the former, delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter, the perfection. |
parricides, consequently, were unknown until a law was made against them, and the penalty showed them the way to the crime. filial affection soon perished, for since that time we have seen more men punished by the sack than by the cross. |
'him wild hunger drives o'er the beauteous earth.' |
national rites relating to the latin feasts; but the alban water the oracle commanded, if it were possible, they should keep from the sea, and shut it up in its ancient bounds; but if that was not to be done, then they should carry it off by ditches and |
admit what is right in some particulars, they have done justice on the whole: thus, for instance, if some persons are unequal in riches, they suppose them unequal in the whole; or, on the contrary, if they are equal in liberty, they suppose them equal in |
two hundred sixty. a man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called old-in-vain.' |
the religious philosophers, not satisfied with the tradition of your forefathers, and doctrine of your priests (in which i willingly acquiesce), indulge a rash curiosity, in trying how far they can establish religion upon the principles of reason; and |
he would understand that part of it which became popular in the next generation, as for example, the doctrine of ideas or of numbers: he might approve of communism. |
in fact make its entrance. so the hellenes went down to their ships again and made their way back to the isthmus. |
for, except the banishment of protagoras, and the death of socrates, which last event proceeded partly from other motives, there are scarcely any instances to be met with, in ancient history, of this bigotted jealousy, with which the present age is so |
consider, marcia, how seldom mothers who live in separate houses see their children: consider how they lose and pass in anxiety all those years during which they have sons in the army, and you will see that this time, none of which you lost, was of |
lycoleon said, defending chabrias, 'they did not respect even that bronze statue of his that intercedes for him yonder'.this was a metaphor for the moment, though it would not always apply; a vivid metaphor, however; chabrias is in danger, and his statue |
for it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no god, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty, |
i like one a rough and unpolished homebred servant, i like my servant born in my house: i like my country-bred father's heavy silver plate stamped with no maker's name: one do not want a table that is beauteous with dappled spots, or known to all the town |
the falerians, trusting in the strength of their city, which was well fortified on all sides, made so little account of the siege, that all, with the exception of those that guarded the walls, as in times of peace, walked about the streets in their common |
society. fortune has consulted both your safety and your pleasure in her disposal of your two sons: you may be protected by the authority of the one, and delighted by the literary leisure of the other. |
the sixth tetralogy commences with the euthydemus, or the disputatious man, a distinctive dialogue. then comes the protagoras, or the sophists, a demonstrative one. the gorgias, or a dissertation on rhetoric, another distinctive one. |
of them however a few were purposely slack in the fight according to the injunctions of themistocles, fifty three but the greater number were not so. |
liberality itself is not in its true lustre in a sovereign hand: private men have therein the most right; for, to take it exactly, a king has nothing properly his own; he owes himself to others: authority is not given in favour of the magistrate, but of |
it is most certain that an extreme fear and an extreme ardour of courage equally trouble and relax the belly. |
there has been a late deservedly esteemed philosopher who, no doubt, has given it very much countenance, by seeming to think the having abstract general ideas is what puts the widest difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast. |
middle empire where europe as it were flows back to asia--namely, in russia there the power to will has been long stored up and accumulated, there the will--uncertain whether to be negative or affirmative--waits threateningly to be discharged (to borrow |
this place, and made preparations for a sea-fight; but the persians, being informed that they were sailing thither, put out to sea also and went over to the mainland with their remaining ships, (those of the phenicians having been already sent away to |
and victims of sacrifices and treat them as well as possible while they live, and after they are dead they bury them in sacred tombs, embalming them: but those who dwell about the city of elephantine even eat them, not holding them to be sacred. |
proof.--virtue is human power, which is defined solely by man's essence (four. def. viii.), that is, which is defined solely by the endeavour made by man to persist in his own being. |
his dart, fearless to be o'ermatched by living might. |
head, before they rose from table. valerius antias only so far varies the story as to make it woman for whom he did it. |
the ninth book of the dialogues of fifty. annaeus seneca, addressed to serenus. |
the pursuit reached a long way, and all through the night the romans slew and took prisoners, and carried off spoils and treasure, till they were weary. |
have put animals to their best use, for they are all beasts of burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts. |
for the human body is composed of very numerous parts, of diverse nature, which continually stand in need of fresh and varied nourishment, so that the whole body may be equally capable of performing all the actions, which follow from the necessity of its |
other particular obligations are acknowledged in the notes. |
reform therefore, without bravery, or scandal of former times and persons; but yet set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents, as to follow them. |
how magnanimity is consistent with care.-things themselves (materials) are indifferent; but the use of them is not indifferent. how then shall a man preserve firmness and tranquillity, and at the same time be careful and neither rash nor negligent? |
our life long affect us. for all things, above and below, are still the same, and from the same causes. when then will there be an end? |
and in the battle which took place between the athenians and mitylenans on the subject of the district of achilis, he was the mitylenan general; the athenian commander being phrynon, a pancratiast, who had gained the victory at olympia. |
let them be absent three years, and on their return never again share in the same sacred rites with their children, or sit at the same table with them. |
him two hundred twenty two nor the might of bulls nor the raging of lions shall hinder; for he hath might as of zeus; and i say he shall not be restrained, till one of the other of these he have utterly torn and divided." two hundred twenty three |
result, for the night was almost spent. and, at the same time, others came with information that all the confusion in the camp proceeded only from their own violence and robbery among themselves. |
pre-eminence which one may have in strength, riches, or connection: but when the pre-eminence is virtue, what then is to be done? |
that, however, of which i am master and knower, is the brain of the leech:-that is my world! |
the same summer, the inhabitants of camarina and gela in sicily first made an armistice with each other, after which embassies from all the other sicilian cities assembled at gela to try to bring about a pacification. |
the two were brought up at once and questioned separately: "did they know of any other road than the one visible?" the first said no; and in spite of all sorts of terrors applied to extract a better answer--"no," he persisted. |
cured, because, like a child, he is afraid of the pain of being burned or cut:-is not that a parallel case? |
they are always real, because they concern the existence of substance (negations are only determinations, which express the non-existence of something in the substance). |
one hundred ninety one aeque lund; eaque mss. |
assuming then that my thesis as to the nature of scientific knowing is correct, the premisses of demonstrated knowledge must be true, primary, immediate, better known than and prior to the conclusion, which is further related to them as effect to cause. |
and will our pupils, when they hear this, refuse to take their turn at the toils of state, when they are allowed to spend the greater part of their time with one another in the heavenly light? |
but before venturing upon this sea, in order to explore it in its whole extent, and to arrive at a certainty whether anything is to be discovered there, it will not be without advantage if we cast our eyes upon the chart of the land that we are about to |
nourishment good, yet every one not be able to receive it with that seasoning; and it must be dressed another way, if you will have it go down with some, even of strong constitutions. |
six csar, pleading for catiline, tried to establish the dogma that the soul is mortal: cato and cicero, in refutation, did not waste time in philosophising. |
except dion, and of him many entertained a jealousy that he would establish a monarchy there, after the lacedaemonian manner. |
during the same summer the lacedaemonians and their allies made an expedition with a hundred ships against zacynthus, an island lying off the coast of elis, peopled by a colony of achaeans from peloponnese, and in alliance with athens. |
he said, and plung'd below. while yet he spoke, his dream aeneas and his sleep forsook. he rose, and looking up, beheld the skies with purple blushing, and the day arise. |
he should rather employ himself in the actual administration of government, and become a sort of steward of it, being perfectly conversant with the principles of universal law and equity, without which no man can be just: not unfamiliar with the civil |
logographers to the poems of homer. it would have told of a struggle for liberty (cp. tim. twenty five one hundred), intended to represent the conflict of persia and hellas. |
(sixteen) fifty. dindorf (brackets) this passage as spurious. |
tell me, no matter how much it may grieve me.' |
and menon as a mantua-maker, and so, again, more than half the megarians (seven) by the making of vests. |
ninety nine. the disappointed one speaks--"i listened for the echo and i heard only praise." |
but first, to reconcile the blue-ey'd maid for her stol'n statue and her tow'r betray'd, warn'd by the seer, to her offended name we rais'd and dedicate this wondrous frame, so lofty, lest thro' your forbidden gates it pass, and intercept our better |
lives they are not repeated again, are quite lost, without the least glimpse remaining of them. |
from their property to its support. besides, it is difficult to secure the property of individuals on one side, without attacking it on another; and it is impossible that all the regulations which govern the order of succession, will, contracts, c. |
necessity, making them benefactors of the state, and therefore benefactors of one another; to this end he created them, not to please themselves, but to be his instruments in binding up the state. |
nor could any communication be well had amongst men without such complex ideas, with names to them: and therefore men have settled names, and supposed settled ideas in their minds, of modes of actions, distinguished by their causes, means, objects, ends, |
shades of night; then sought sichaeus thro' the shady grove, who answer'd all her cares, and equal'd all her love. |
overhung still as it rose, impossible to climb. |
roses over it.' i wondered at the words he spake, but i knew that his were no idle words. four years after, when i chanced to revisit naishapur, i went to his final resting-place, and lo! |
he is under his father's tuition and authority, till he comes to age of discretion; and then he is a freeman, at liberty what government he will put himself under, what body politic he will unite himself to: for if an englishman's son, born in france, be |
yet with feelings not hard or insensible either to compassion or to his own distress; conceive him, i say, at the moment when he wishes that he had never lived to see the day that exposed him to such unutterable anguish, yet remaining true to his |
he will hear as though he heard not, and to no profit, the end in view being practice and not mere knowledge. |
note i.--this imitation of emotions, when it is referred to pain, is called compassion (cf. three. xxii. |
moreover, they say that all these fiery bodies, and all the other stars, receive nutriment; the sun from the vast sea, being a sort of intellectual appendage; and the moon from the fresh waters, being mingled with the air, and also near the earth, as |
why, he mutilated his own friend, telesphorus the rhodian, cutting off his nose and ears, and kept him for a long while in a den, like some new and strange animal, after the hideousness of his hacked and disfigured face had made him no longer appear to be |
arts of persuasion, to insinuate it into our minds help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering judgment of great things is many times formed from lesser thing option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage two principal |
possibility of this arrangement the consistency of the argument with itself bears witness. |
unless, indeed, you have men who are bound to you by greater kindnesses than some of those men by whom he was slain were bound to caesar, or unless there are points in which you can be compared with him. |
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