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"where the question is not about the wit, but about the soul." --seneca, ep., seventy five. |
for his business is entirely that of an architect, and reason is the architect; while others want only that portion of it which may be sufficient for their station; from whence it is evident, that although moral virtue is common to all those we have |
and restraining the desires when they are no longer willing of their own accord to obey the word of command issuing from the citadel. |
that which a changing thing, if it changes continuously in a natural manner, naturally reaches before it reaches that to which it changes last, is between. |
after his return, lucullus inflicted the customary punishment upon the fugitives, and made them dig a trench of twelve foot, working in their frocks unfastened, while the rest stood by and looked on. |
all which they do, to no other end, but only to extort some gentle or submissive word from them, or to frighten them so as to make them run away, to obtain this advantage that they were terrified, and that their constancy was shaken; and indeed, if |
or if thou do, return unto them again with all possible speed. and remember, that the word notes unto thee an intent and intelligent consideration of every object that presents itself unto thee, without distraction. |
and no laws are in their true credit, but such to which god has given so long a continuance that no one knows their beginning, or that there ever was any other. |
similarly the parts of a plane have position, for it could similarly be stated what was the position of each and what sort of parts were contiguous. the same is true with regard to the solid and to space. |
concerning all this, we must make some such proclamation as the following: mankind must have laws, and conform to them, or their life would be as bad as that of the most savage beast. |
now there is such a thing as locomotion, and in locomotion there is included circular movement, and everything is measured by some one thing homogeneous with it, units by a unit, horses by a horse, and similarly times by some definite time, and, as we |
again, if we advance several deep, the enemy will none the less overlap us, and turn their superfluous numbers to account as best they like; while, if we march in shallow order, we may fully expect our line to be cut through and through by the thick rain |
when, however, summer was at its height some of the legions were sent back overland into winter-quarters, but most of them caesar put on board the fleet and brought down the river amisia to the ocean. |
title to do ill "by the gods," said he, "if i was not angry, i would execute you" by the misery of this life, aiming at bliss in another caesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot caesar's choice of death: "the shortest" can neither keep |
and certainly, added simmias, the objection which he is now making does appear to me to have some force. for what can be the meaning of a truly wise man wanting to fly away and lightly leave a master who is better than himself? |
who were enemies to the greeks; he affirmed, that this was now become a common oath taken by all physicians, and enjoined his son to have a care and avoid them; for that he himself had written a little book of prescriptions for curing those who were sick |
triangles variously combined into regular solid figures: (three) three of them, fire, air, and water, admit of transformation into one another; the fourth, earth, cannot be similarly transformed: (four) different sizes of the same triangles form the |
and his riches. and when they afterwards received tidings that pompey was passing the pyrenees, they took up their arms, laid hold on their ensigns, called upon perpenna to lead them to sertorius, and threatened him that if he refused they would go |
the gods sell us all good things in return for our labours. |
now, as the promotion of this summum bonum, the conception of which contains this connection, is a priori a necessary object of our will and inseparably attached to the moral law, the impossibility of the former must prove the falsity of the latter. |
of the war with this people, caesar himself has given this account in his commentaries, that the barbarians, having sent ambassadors to treat with him, did, during the treaty, set upon him in his march, by which means with eight hundred men they routed |
he had never given anything to serapion, one of the youths that played at ball with him, because he did not ask of him, till one day, it coming to serapion's turn to play, he still threw the ball to others, and when the king asked him why he did not |
if the end is to exist or does exist, that also which precedes it will exist or does exist; otherwise just as there, if-the conclusion is not true, the premiss will not be true, so here the end or 'that for the sake of which' will not exist. |
it is very remarkable that the romans were able to dispense with it; but rome was for five hundred years one continued miracle which the world cannot hope to see again. |
into one another in regular order, while the infinite complexity of the human frame remains unobserved. |
repent, though it happen perchance to be less prosperous in the issue. |
but even if we consider it on its own merits the so-called vacuum will be found to be really vacuous. for as, if one puts a cube in water, an amount of water equal to the cube will be displaced; so too in air; but the effect is imperceptible to sense. |
what hope then is there that there ever can be peace between the roman people and the men who are besieging mutina and attacking a general and army of the roman people? |
dem.-produce ba to five hundred (post. ii.), and make ad equal to ac iii. . join four hundred. |
them distrustful of the hellenes. one hundred eight |
but when terms stand to one another as these do, f and h coincident, e and f never predicated of the same thing but one or other of everything, and g and h likewise, then e and g must needs be coincident. |
all these things of him remember, that whensoever thy last hour shall come upon thee, it may find thee, as it did him, ready for it in the possession of a good conscience. |
for it is and it is not, it is nowhere when filled, it is nothing when empty. |
again if no one hundred is b, but some b is or is not a or not every b is a, there cannot be a syllogism. take the terms white, horse, swan: white, horse, raven. the same terms may be taken also if the premiss ba is indefinite. |
two. if through any point within a circle the chord be drawn, which is bisected in that point, its half is a mean proportional between the segments of any other chord passing through the same point. |
amongst the infirmities therefore of a common-wealth, i will reckon in the first place, those that arise from an imperfect institution, and resemble the diseases of a naturall body, which proceed from a defectuous procreation. |
but things which are changed all of a sudden, and only gradually and with difficulty return to their own nature, have effects in every way opposite to the former, as is evident in the case of burnings and cuttings of the body. |
--which alexander much more vividly and more roundly manifested in effect, when, having notice by a letter from parmenio, that philip, his most beloved physician, was by darius' money corrupted to poison him, at the same time he gave the letter to philip |
soc. were you travelling alone, or was your man-servant with you? |
the pope's homers would soon get properly distributed.- |
vii. when of the multiples of four magnitudes (taken as in def. |
a drunken meeting, where one theodorus represented the herald, polytion the torch- bearer, and alcibiades the chief priest, while the rest of the party appeared as candidates for initiation, and received the title of initiates. |
by night, if need were, or even by day. the thing is to get them to turn their thoughts to what they mean to do, instead of to what they are likely to suffer. do that, and their spirits will soon revive wonderfully. |
the men who, though exceedingly hungry and thirsty, and both equally, yet being equidistant from food and drink, is therefore bound to stay where he is-even so, it still remains to explain why fire stays at the extremities. |
having heard this battos and his companions sailed away back again; for in fact the god would not let them off from the task of settlement till they had come to libya itself: and having arrived at the island and taken up him whom they had left, they made |
they might be opposed as philosophy and rhetoric, and as conversant respectively with necessary and contingent matter. but no true idea of the nature of either of them, or of their relation to one another, could be framed until science obtained a content. |
in this king's reign they told me that, as the circulation of money was very slow, a law was made for the egyptians that a man might have that money lent to him which he needed, by offering as security the dead body of his father; and there was added |
so soul," continues the hindoo philosopher, "from the circumstances in which it is placed, mistakes its own character, until the truth is revealed to it by some holy teacher, and then it knows itself to be brahme ." |
this cannot be said of any straight line:-not of an infinite line; for, if it were perfect, it would have a limit and an end: nor of any finite line; for in every case there is something beyond it, since any finite line can be extended. |
hence it is said to be discerned by a kind of spurious or analogous reason, partaking so feebly of existence as to be hardly perceivable, yet always reappearing as the containing mother or nurse of all things. |
watches of the night, whereby we can accomplish many of our needs? (seven) |
that aspect of negation accordingly which kant certainly began with, and which schopenhauer magnified until it became the all-in-all of ethics, hegel entirely subordinates. |
a child knows his nurse and his cradle, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age; and a young savage has, perhaps, his head filled with love and hunting, according to the fashion of his tribe. |
eight. the bisectors of two external angles and the bisector of the third internal angle are concurrent. |
do not say (one) 'from being a man he came to be musical' but only 'the man became musical'. |
like the romance of king arthur, which has had so great a charm, it has found a way over the seas from one country and language to another. it inspired the navigators of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; it foreshadowed the discovery of america. |
first, then, let us provide money, and not allow ourselves to be carried away by the talk of our allies before we have done so: as we shall have the largest share of responsibility for the consequences be they good or bad, we have also a right to a |
nevertheless this second theory is not right either. |
for if ab, ac be respectively parallel to de, df, and if ac, de meet in g, the angles a, five hundred are each equal to g xxix. . |
i do not deny pain to be pain--for were that the case, in what would courage consist?--but i say it should be assuaged by patience, if there be such a thing as patience: if there be no such thing, why do we speak so in praise of philosophy? |
def. ix.-when two planes which meet are not perpendicular to each other, their inclination is the acute angle contained by two right lines drawn from any point of their common section at right angles to it-one in one plane, and the other in the other. |
hence (ex aequali) ab : ac :: six hundred : de. therefore the sides about the equal angles are proportional. |
pompey discovered this too late, and not daring to give battle, for fear of being encompassed, and yet being ashamed to desert his friends and confederates in their extreme danger, was thus forced to sit still, and see them ruined before his face. |
know this, the realm of night; the stygian shore: my boat conveys no living bodies o'er; nor was i pleas'd great theseus once to bear, who forc'd a passage with his pointed spear, nor strong alcides, men of mighty fame, and from th' immortal gods their |
both your goods and you belong to your families, as well those past as those to come; but, further, both your family and goods much more appertain to the public. |
ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the impossibility. |
so then, as might be supposed, with a fertile land and with no small number of men dwelling in it, they straightway shot up and became prosperous: and it was no longer sufficient for them to keep still; but presuming that they were superior in strength to |
said, time is measured by motion as well as motion by time (this being so because by a motion definite in time the quantity both of the motion and of the time is measured): if, then, what is first is the measure of everything homogeneous with it, regular |
and hence, when any impurities arise in the region of the liver by reason of disorders of the body, the loose nature of the spleen, which is composed of a hollow and bloodless tissue, receives them all and clears them away, and when filled with the |
and the reason of this is that these two, the straight and the circular line, are the only simple magnitudes. |
differ merely in relative position, but also as possessing distinct potencies. this is made plain also by the objects studied by mathematics. |
observation.-these definitions tacitly assume the result of props. iii. and x. of this book. on this account we have departed from the usual custom of placing them at the beginning of the book. we have altered the place of definition vi. |
whether a man escape or endure this, he is miserable,--in the former case, because he is not cured; while in the latter, he perishes in order that the rest of mankind may be saved. |
and indeed most of the facts are such as to convince a man (one at least who is capable of reasoning about such matters), that it is not at all likely that it flows from snow. |
avoided sufficiently covered by their virtue without any other robe suicide: a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes swell and puff up their souls, and their natural way of speaking swim |
seventy two. pascal's theorem.-if the opposite sides of an irregular hexagon abcdef inscribed in a circle be produced till they meet, the three points of intersection g, h, i are collinear. |
if (ii) infinite, then either as democritus believed one in kind, but differing in shape or form; or different in kind and even contrary. |
i.) will regard the external body as actually existing, until it is affected, c. q.e.five hundred. |
to the common people in the zeal and forwardness they now allowed for their country's service, but to prove that they were superior to them, not so much in power and riches as in merit and worth. |
"'strangers, who are you? where do sail from? are you traders, or do you sail the sea as rovers, with your hands against every man, and every man's hand against you?' |
for though men may do many things, which god does not command, nor is therefore author of them; yet they can have no passion, nor appetite to any thing, of which appetite gods will is not the cause. |
xerxes however did not believe that he was speaking the truth, and since he had not performed the appointed task, he impaled him, inflicting upon him the penalty pronounced before. |
as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink nestor said, "sons, put telemachus's horses to the chariot that he may start at once." |
wherefore the varieties of smell have no name, and they have not many, or definite and simple kinds; but they are distinguished only as painful and pleasant, the one sort irritating and disturbing the whole cavity which is situated between the head and |
from white to black or from good to bad, which is not of a kind specifically distinct: it is numerically the same if it proceeds from something numerically one to something numerically one in the same period of time, e.g. |
a man, suddenly struck with palsy in the leg or arm, or who had newly lost those members, frequently endeavours, at first to move them, and employ them in their usual offices. |
the tribuneship. and when, afterwards, saturninus, on becoming tribune, brought forward his law for the division of lands, with a clause enacting that the senate should publicly swear to confirm whatever the people should vote, and not to oppose them in |
bultmann, rudolf, "das religiose moment in der ethischen unterweisung des epiktets und das neue testament," zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche wissenschaft und die kunde des urchristentums , vol. thirteen, one thousand nine hundred twelve; pp. |
it had not that sort of consistency to plato which has been given to it in modern times by geometry and metaphysics. neither of the greek words by which it is described are so purely abstract as the english word 'space' or the latin 'spatium.' |
matter had not come in the way;--on my return, when we had done supper and were about to retire to rest, my brother said to me: protagoras is come. i was going to you at once, and then i thought that the night was far spent. |
imagine why she should appear deserving of such lofty panegyrics, or of being sought after with such excessive eagerness. |
to perform, and at this very moment he is endeavouring to invade a province of the roman people. |
should, however, the totality of the practical spirit throw itself into a single one of the many restricted forms of impulse, each being always in conflict to another, it is passion . |
on this the day broke, but ulysses heard the sound of her weeping, and it puzzled him, for it seemed as though she already knew him and was by his side. |
the locomotions of the two are contrary to each other. and again, fire moves up naturally and down unnaturally: and its natural motion is certainly contrary to its unnatural motion. |
all of them gave a ready ear to the proposal made by alcibiades, except only phrynichus of the township of dirades, one of the generals, who suspected, as the truth was, that alcibiades concerned not himself whether the government were in the people or |
for we have not here to do with the nature of outward objects, which is infinite, but solely with the mind, which judges of the nature of objects, and, again, with the mind only in respect of its cognition a priori. |
six. if two circles intersect in the points a, b, and any two lines acd, bfe, be drawn through a and b, cutting one of the circles in the points one hundred, e, and the other in the points five hundred, f, the line ce is parallel to df. |
'presently' or 'just' refers to the part of future time which is near the indivisible present 'now' ('when do you walk? |
with frequent glances she surveyed her person, or looked to see if others noticed her; while ever and anon she fixed her gaze upon the shadow of herself intently. |
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