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away from god and gods did this will allure me; what would there be to create if there were-gods! |
everything now begins to change its aspect. |
lover, because his youthful companions or others slanderously told him that he would be disgraced, now as years advance, at the appointed age and time, is led to receive him into communion. |
(two) a cyzicene stater twenty-eight silver drachmae of attic money b.one hundred. three hundred thirty five, in the time of demosthenes; but, like the daric, this gold coin would fluctuate in value relatively to silver. |
however, we have said too much about a word; let us rather look to the facts, o conscript fathers, the appreciation of which, i know, is at times injured by too much attention being paid to words. |
of purification and cleanness, fit for such an office. |
to which cassius with some emotion answered, "but what roman will suffer you to die? what, do you not know yourself, brutus? |
thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of nature. the maker of this earth but patented a leaf. what champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last? |
are you still in labour, or have you brought all you have to say about knowledge to the birth? |
boeorix, king of the cimbri, came with a small party of horse to the roman camp, and challenged marius to appoint the time and place, where they might meet and fight for the country. |
for the celebrating of which he made a public feast through greece, and for the prizes which were contested at athens he himself acted as steward, and, leaving at home the ensigns that are carried before the general, he made his public appearance in a |
and so much was this ceremony observed, that in blessing the whole congregation at once, which cannot be done by laying on of hands, yet "aaron (levit. nine.twenty two.) did lift up his hand towards the people when he blessed them." |
now, allowing that what we see in the world could not be effected without a god, archimedes could not have imitated the same motions in his sphere without a divine soul. |
true. this argument might also be used in a case of parity, as in the lines: |
by this artifice a great part of the army was in a state of excitement, and the soldiers began to look every way about, inquiring for pyrrhus. |
vast a multitude of troops. he also placed the choicest of his armed chariots in the front of his own phalanx over against the grecian troops, that a violent charge with these might cut open their ranks before they closed with them. |
"if she asserts that for you to receive a colony of hers into alliance is not right, let her know that every colony that is well treated honours its parent state, but becomes estranged from it by injustice. |
the second main point raised by critics of the general will is whether in defining it as a will directed solely to the common interest, rousseau means to exclude acts of public immorality and short-sightedness. he answers the questions in different ways. |
let cicero, the father of eloquence, treat of the contempt of death; let seneca do the same: the first languishingly drawls it out so you perceive he would make you resolve upon a thing on which he is not resolved himself; he inspires you not with |
technon, upon this likeness, all being in accordance with what he had been told, asked him if he knew erginus; and on his replying that he was his brother, taking it for granted that he was speaking with diocles, not so much as asking his name or staying |
space and time themselves, pure as these conceptions are from all that is empirical, and certain as it is that they are represented fully a priori in the mind, would be completely without objective validity, and without sense and significance, if their |
he hoped, says bishop osorius, no contemptible latin historian of these later times, that the favour of the liberty he had given them having failed of converting them to christianity, yet the difficulty of committing themselves to the mercy of the |
this each son does for his father, just as the hellenes keep the day of memorial for the dead. thirty two in other respects however this race also is said to live righteously, and their women have equal rights with the men. |
but the conclusions will not follow the same arrangement either in respect to the terms or to the premisses. |
does a calm sea and fair wind display the art of the pilot: some foul weather is wanted to prove his courage. |
we can easily show in like manner, that all other causes of hatred depend solely on differences, and not on the agreement between men's natures. |
in the phaedo the soul is conscious of her divine nature, and the separation from the body which has been commenced in this life is perfected in another. |
living in any shelter that they can find, or in tubs as diogenes did; for he used to say that it was the peculiar property of the gods to want nothing, and that, therefore, when a man wished for nothing he was like the gods. |
the horned bull, one hundred eighty eight with sturdy limbs, is placed: |
but when we say the name, we mean also the surname. |
he then, knowing the time when he took to him his wife, and reckoning the months upon his fingers, said, denying with an oath, "the child would not be mine." |
so the emperor made him a present of money, furnished him with an escort, and bade him enter with a good heart on the honours of his house. "never before," he said, "had a native of rome, no hostage but a citizen, gone to mount a foreign throne." |
greater or less difficulty, be brought to assume another form. |
but such a companion should be chosen and acquired from your first setting out. |
let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things-either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul |
this is a deduction in the manner of my adversaries, which i would as soon anticipate as let them have the shame of drawing. |
reconciles them to himself by his piteous cries and by frankincense, with drink-offerings and the savour of burnt sacrifice. |
aesop tells a story, that one who had bought a morisco slave, believing that his black complexion had arrived by accident and the ill usage of his former master, caused him to enter with great care into a course of baths and potions: it happened that the |
--the greek history observes of iccus the tarentine, of chryso, astyllus, diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves during that preparation all commerce with venus. |
and so the dispute between them went on for some time, antony's solicitations receiving but little encouragement from the shouts of a few friends, and caesar's refusal being accompanied with the general applause of the people; a curious thing enough, that |
"why, there are two things to examine here. " |
i should have found this counsel conformable enough to the stoical roughness: but it appears the more strange, for being borrowed from epicurus, who writes the same thing upon the like occasion to idomeneus. |
divide it among the people, for that they, if they were philosophers, would have no need of anything. |
laws, but above all practically restrictive laws, and consequently above obligation and duty. |
for it is not enough to object, even if the point demolished be a falsehood, but the reason of the fallacy should also be proved: for then it would be clear whether the man makes his objection with his eyes open or not. |
i should like, however, to point out the general intention of the poem, which is certainly designed in every part to be a refutation of the saying of pittacus. |
for that once when judging in a friend's cause he had voted himself in accordance with the law, but had persuaded a friend to vote for his acquittal, in order that so he might maintain the law, and yet save his friend. |
kingdom, syloson heard that the kingdom had come about to that man to whom once in egypt he had given the garment at his request: accordingly he went up to susa and sat down at the entrance one hundred twenty three of the king's palace, and said that he |
nor does it make any more confusion between the two ideas of sweet and bitter that the same sort of body produces at one time one, and at another time another idea by the taste, than it makes a confusion in two ideas of white and sweet, or white and |
than i regret that my duration shall not be as long and entire as that of an oak. |
the motions of factions under kings ought to be, like the motions (as the astronomers speak) of the inferior orbs, which may have their proper motions, but yet still are quietly carried, by the higher motion of primum mobile. |
for the world is the common habitation or city of the gods and men; for they are the only reasonable beings: they alone live by justice and law. |
to the dictates of the law of reason which god had implanted in him. |
"wherefore of these men which have companyed with us all the time that the lord jesus went in and out amongst us, beginning from the baptisme of john unto that same day hee was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a martyr (that is a witnesse) |
this sort of contention and rivalry with others in matter of style, to my mind, in any case, seems petty and pedantic, but when its objects are works of inimitable excellence, it is absolutely senseless. |
'tis all a chequer-board of nights and days where destiny with men for pieces plays: hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays. |
here ulysses lay down, and eumaeus covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather. |
socrates: but if not by knowledge, the only alternative which remains is that statesmen must have guided states by right opinion, which is in politics what divination is in religion; for diviners and also prophets say many things truly, but they know not |
give him his helmet, shield, and a couple of lances, and if he is the man he was when i first knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he would soon lay his hands about these rascally suitors, were he to stand once more upon his own threshold. |
another is, when many use the same words, to signifie (by their connexion and order,) one to another, what they conceive, or think of each matter; and also what they desire, feare, or have any other passion for, and for this use they are called signes. |
to form such troops, it was necessary to take men from the land; the lack of their labour then diminished the amount of provisions, and their maintenance introduced those taxes which increased prices. |
the long defence the trojan people made, the war protracted, and the siege delay'd, were due to hector's and this hero's hand: both brave alike, and equal in command; aeneas, not inferior in the field, in pious reverence to the gods excell'd. |
"rather enough than costly (more wit than cost)"--nonius, xi. nineteen. |
but the idea which constitutes the reality of an emotion must denote or express the disposition of the body, or of some part thereof, because its power of action or force for existence is increased or diminished, helped or hindered. |
and this is the reason, my dear thrasymachus, why, as i was just now saying, no one is willing to govern; because no one likes to take in hand the reformation of evils which are not his concern without remuneration. |
desires, when he loathed his wife octavia, high born as she was, and of approved virtue, either from some fatality, or because vice is overpoweringly attractive. |
the same has fallen out to men truly wise, which befalls the ears of corn; they shoot and raise their heads high and pert, whilst empty; but when full and swelled with grain in maturity, begin to flag and droop. |
there is doubtless, in his way of putting it, an appeal to a "golden age"; but this golden age is admittedly as imaginary as the freedom to which men are born is bound, for most of them, to be. |
thus there are propositions about natural science on which it is impossible to base any enthymeme or syllogism about ethics, and other propositions about ethics on which nothing can be based about natural science. the same principle applies throughout. |
no compulsion, unimpeded, and has put them entirely in our own power, without even having reserved to himself any power of hindering or impeding. |
but when this has been shown it is clear that every syllogism is perfected by means of the first figure and is reducible to the universal syllogisms in this figure. |
likewise, also, propositions contradicting the contraries of general opinions will pass as general opinions: for if it be a general opinion that one ought to do good to one's friends, it will also be a general opinion that one ought not to do them harm. |
oedipus. and wherewith shall i fill it, ere in its place i set it? this too tell. |
when demaratus the lacedaemonian, being ordered by the king to ask whatsoever he pleased, and it should immediately be granted him, desired that he might make his public entrance, and be carried in state through the city of sardis, with the tiara set in |
as a blasphemer. men did not merely mistake their benefactor; they mistook him for the exact contrary of what he was, and treated him as that prodigy of impiety, which they themselves are now held to be, for their treatment of him. |
after the murder of julia, drusus's daughter, by messalina's treachery, for forty years she wore only the attire of a mourner, with a heart ever sorrowful. |
stroke. such a part of duration as this, wherein we perceive no succession, is that which we call an instant, and is that which takes up the time of only one idea in our minds, without the succession of another; wherein, therefore, we perceive no |
one must here ask my readers to distinguish also between public economy , which is my subject and which i call government , and the supreme authority, which i call sovereignty ; a distinction which consists in the fact that the latter has the right of |
certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. and solomon, one am sure, saith, it is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence. |
sent to thee from god, bidding them follow the commands which were given by thee at first with regard to the preparations to be made; and endeavour that on thy side nothing may be wanting, since god delivers the matter into thy hands." |
philosophies come and go; but the detection of fallacies, the framing of definitions, the invention of methods still continue to be the main elements of the reasoning process. |
indeed, he said, in no way could they make a fairer picture. |
of all their difficulties, whether relating to the affairs of war or peace. |
know ye the delight which rolleth stones into precipitous depths?-those men of to-day, see just how they roll into my depths! |
every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life. the least activity of the intellectual powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time. |
one hundred fifty seven atque ut apium examina non fingendorum favorum causa congregantur, sed, cum congregabilia natura sint, fingunt favos, sic homines, ac multo etiam magis, natura congregati adhibent agendi cogitandique one hundred fifty seven |
three hundred forty five hundred, three hundred forty four five hundred. |
sulpicius was killed, being betrayed by his servant, whom sylla first made free, and then threw him headlong down the tarpeian rock. |
glad and made sure of victory; forthwith, however, the son of atreus drew his sword and sprang upon him. |
under-sheriffries; as if they were but matters, for under-sheriffs and catchpoles: though many times those under-sheriffries do more good, than their high speculations. st. |
was not encouraged by the aid of the state in the age of plato; and he will recognize the grasp of plato's mind in his ability to conceive of one science of solids in motion including the earth as well as the heavens,-not forgetting to notice the |
but the fact is, that owing to our feebleness and sluggishness we are prevented from reaching the surface of the air: for if any man could arrive at the exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and come to the top, then like a fish who puts his head |
in processe of time these offices of honour, by occasion of trouble, and for reasons of good and peacable government, were turned into meer titles; serving for the most part, to distinguish the precedence, place, and order of subjects in the |
full powers. so he came out, long wished for by the greatest part of the chief persons and leaders in the towns, who hoped to grow to greater power still by his means, when the popular governments should be everywhere destroyed. |
the inhabitants, however, showing no signs of submitting, he dismissed the land forces and himself sailed to leucas, and making a descent upon nericus was cut off during his retreat, and most of his troops with him, by the people in those parts aided by |
never taste the things which fall from the table on the floor. |
and, indeed, this is generally the feeling of those who look on these as real evils, but yet think they should be borne with resignation. |
the rights of man as they are preached by the modern individualist, are not the rights of which rousseau and the revolutionaries were thinking. |
it is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, |
such kind of general propositions are seldom mentioned in the huts of indians: much less are they to be found in the thoughts of children, or any impressions of them on the minds of naturals. |
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