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"autumn hair" is explained as the fur of a hare, which is finest in autumn, when it begins to grow afresh. the phrase is a very common one in chinese writers. |
but, endeavoring to obviate the ill-will and discredit which, upon plato's account, might accrue to him among the philosophers, he collected in his court many reputed learned men; and, ambitiously desiring to surpass them in their debates he was forced to |
necessary use in the objects of experience were not shown. nay, the representation of them is a mere schema, that always relates to the reproductive imagination, which calls up the objects of experience, without which they have no meaning. |
"not i," replied the complainer; "only my cloak." |
soc. it would seem to follow that those who have the knowledge how to behave are also those who have the power? (thirty four) |
for though alcibiades was the proper appointed person to receive all lacedaemonians when they came to athens, and had taken particular care of those that were made prisoners at pylos, yet, after they had obtained the peace and restitution of the captives, |
for both of them he professes a respect in the open court, which contrasts with his manner of speaking about them in other places. |
suppose now we turn and consider what it is you find so hard in my life. |
for we can scarcely find any other examples where so small and weak a party of men by bold courage overcame such numerous and powerful enemies, or brought greater blessings to their country by so doing. |
for sossius, also, had great success, and canidius, whom he left in armenia, defeated the people there, and also the kings of the albanians and iberians, and marched victorious as far as caucasus, by which means the fame of antony's arms had become great |
fifthly, that all evill which is inflicted without intention, or possibility of disposing the delinquent, or (by his example) other men, to obey the lawes, is not punishment; but an act of hostility; because without such an end, no hurt done is contained |
(nine) in reference to the necessity of building up a family connection or political alliances cf. arist. "pol." iii. nine, thirteen. |
this i understand of those various modes of thought there mention'd, and not of substance ; and when i subjoyn, which of them is it that can be separated from me ? |
what perceives is, of course, a spatial magnitude, but we must not admit that either the having the power to perceive or the sense itself is a magnitude; what they are is a certain ratio or power in a magnitude. |
who esteemed his procuring him this charge a greater obligation, than that of preferring him to the kingdom. |
having publicly praised his victorious troops, caesar raised a pile of arms with the proud inscription, "the army of tiberius caesar, after thoroughly conquering the tribes between the rhine and the elbe, has dedicated this monument to mars, jupiter, and |
and fight against ourselves curiosity and of that eager passion for news delivered into our own custody the keys of life drunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's nature i can more hardly believe a man's constancy than any virtue "i wish you good |
best. but it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler; and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be |
ninety four i.e. carians, persians, and ionians. |
may be affirmed of other objects. now an universal criterion of truth would be that which is valid for all cognitions, without distinction of their objects. |
senate which was established by solon probably had some aristocratic features, though their precise nature is unknown to us. |
his good housekeeper answered, "hector, since you bid me tell you truly, she did not go to your sisters nor to your brothers' wives, nor yet to the temple of minerva, where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess, but she is on the high wall of |
have reached the stage of gratitude towards them, he has not personally advanced one step nearer to that which still maintains itself as church or as piety; perhaps even the contrary. |
'when workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.' (king john. act. iv. sc. two.) |
you should therefore look and see if its contrary, to wit, friendship, be also in the 'spirited faculty': for if not-if friendship is in the faculty of desire-then hatred could not follow anger. |
that has in it neither more nor less difficulty than the question-"how can i be an object to myself?" or this-"how i can be an object of my own intuition and internal perceptions?" |
men had only recently arrived at the notion of opinion; they could not at once define the true and pass beyond into the false. |
to the commonest reason and easily observed. |
this leads us to inquire why it is that, in metaphysics, the sure path of science has not hitherto been found. shall we suppose that it is impossible to discover it? |
it may be observed in general, that when young men arrive early at fame and repute, if they are of a nature but slightly touched with emulation, this early attainment is apt to extinguish their thirst and satiate their small appetite; whereas the first |
fifty eight the soil, though improper for the olive, the vine, and other productions of warmer climates, is fertile, and suitable for corn. |
not serve to conduct him to the market and exchange; if he could not see things he was to avoid, at a convenient distance; nor distinguish things he had to do with by those sensible qualities others do. |
the second company was led by noble eudorus, son to an unwedded woman. |
of this kind of statement of a case hermagoras is considered the inventor: not that many of the ancient orators have not frequently employed it, but because former writers on the subject have not taken any notice of it, and have not entered it among the |
in a semi-legal aspect, using the terminology, if not the standpoint, of jurisprudence, he restates the same doctrine in the form of popular sovereignty. this use tends continually to pass over into the more philosophical form which comes third. |
what remained but to take the sword and chose for their generals and emperors those whose images they had followed as standards. |
in what shop, or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. but the operatories of the clergy, are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontificall. |
then i knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them. |
only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no god attends. |
no art, no activity of wit, could conduct our steps so as to follow so wandering and so irregular a guide; in this windy confusion of the noise of vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on, no way worth anything can be chosen. |
since, however, this is opposed even to the usage of language, which distinguishes the pleasant from the good, the unpleasant from the evil, and requires that good and evil shall always be judged by reason, and, therefore, by concepts which can be |
similarly sight is the sight of something, not 'of that of which it is the sight' (though of course it is true to say this); in fact it is relative to colour or to something else of the sort. |
what is good is honourable, and what is bad is disgraceful. think everything that is wicked, foreign. prudence is the safest fortification; for it can neither fall to pieces nor be betrayed. |
we must admit that it is in the soul most especially that the principle of sensation resides. |
but of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily? it is such as i will describe; for i must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. |
"ye immortal gods," said he, "the only complaint which i have to make of you is that you did not make your will known to me earlier; for then i would sooner have gone into that state of life to which i now have been called. |
or future indulgence so united, that they always afterwards kept company together in that man's mind, as if they were but one idea. |
unable, however, to unite and defend themselves, on account of the number of confederates that had votes, all the allies were enslaved, except ourselves and the chians, who continued to send our contingents as independent and nominally free. |
it is the same in painting, where touches shall sometimes slip from the hand of the painter, so surpassing both his conception and his art, as to beget his own admiration and astonishment. |
for he that knocks at another man's door ought not to enter the house till the master gives him leave. |
"nature has green to us no knowledge of the end of things." --cicero, acad., ii. twenty nine. |
for when plays are ordered with a view to children having the same plays, and amusing themselves after the same manner, and finding delight in the same playthings, the more solemn institutions of the state are allowed to remain undisturbed. |
when, as was commonly the case, i had none to commune with, i used to raise the echoes by striking with a paddle on the side of my boat, filling the surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, stirring them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild |
i am told that the distance is considerable, but probably there are shady places under the trees, where, being no longer young, we may often rest and converse. |
athenian: very good; and you must not be surprised if i go back a little, for we have plenty of leisure, and there is nothing to prevent us from considering in every point of view the subject of law. |
for if extended substance could be so divided that its parts were really separate, why should not one part admit of being destroyed, the others remaining joined together as before? and why should all be so fitted into one another as to leave no vacuum? |
but one who is raised to the leadership by popular favour finds himself alone, and has no one or very few who are not ready to obey him. |
there may be (one) motion in the same place, as in revolution on an axis, which is imparted swiftly to the larger and slowly to the lesser circle; and there may be motion in different places, having sometimes (two) one centre of motion and sometimes |
colours and all will be a blank? for light is the noble bond between the perceiving faculty and the thing perceived, and the god who gives us light is the sun, who is the eye of the day, but is not to be confounded with the eye of man. |
diffidence-- constant despayre, diffidence of our selves. |
ulysses was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone. |
for when the ambassadors have reported what they certainly will report, that antonius will not submit to you nor to the senate, who then will be so worthless a citizen as to think him deserving of being accounted a citizen? |
i tell you this, because i want you to observe that songs and strains have all of them preludes, but that laws, though called by the same name (nomoi), have never any prelude. |
if any pity touch rutulian hearts, here empty all your quivers, all your darts; or, if they fail, thou, jove, conclude my woe, and send me thunderstruck to shades below!" |
and as a matter of fact, the fatalism of the weak-willed embellishes itself surprisingly when it can pose as "la religion de la souffrance humaine"; that is its "good taste." |
themselves, might render difficult. some objects had need be turned on every side; and when the notion is new, as i confess some of these are to me; or out of the ordinary road, as i suspect they will appear to others, it is not one simple view of it that |
but i could no longer sit and look into the fire, and the pertinent words of a poet recurred to me with new force.- |
two. there is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. to do that is near losing (the gentleness) which is so precious. thus it is that when opposing weapons are (actually) crossed, he who deplores (the situation) conquers. |
beleeve on him; and by consequence, a restitution of eternall life, to all the faithfull, and to them onely: yet the doctrine is now, and hath been a long time far otherwise; namely, that every man hath eternity of life by nature, in as much as his soul |
to help him with auxiliaries, the young piso actively assisting in all the business of war, though he had advised against undertaking it. |
that there be force in the hands of some or other, to put those lawes in execution. |
proof is something distinct from the proposition. for that which can be joined to a thing or separated from it, cannot possibly be the same thing with that to which it is joined or from which it is separated. |
of his limbs, and by his loud and dreadful roaring, attracted the eyes of all the spectators. amongst other slaves that were presented to the people in this combat of beasts there was one androdus, of dacia, belonging to a roman lord of consular dignity. |
are very dear friends, who are now under my roof." |
c. p. he is to seek to find out how to inspire those men whom he is desirous to persuade, with belief in his words; and how to affect their minds with such and such feelings. |
some even of the good soldiers were inclined to a corrupt compliance, as a whispered rumour gained ground that the emperor was not averse to these proceedings. |
his fool's heart was persuaded, and he took his bow from its case. this bow was made from the horns of a wild ibex which he had killed as it was bounding from a rock; he had stalked it, and it had fallen as the arrow struck it to the heart. |
note two.--from what has just been said, we understand what is meant by the terms hope, fear, confidence, despair, joy, and disappointment. |
such were the order and the forces of the two combatants. the lacedaemonian army looked the largest; though as to putting down the numbers of either host, or of the contingents composing it, i could not do so with any accuracy. |
"there is something therein," said the spiritually conscientious one, and put his finger to his nose, "there is something in this spectacle which even doeth good to my conscience. |
the youth who believes that such things are done by those who have the blood of heaven flowing in their veins will be too ready to imitate their example. |
in the first place then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and if so, whether it is as the art of making shuttles is to the art of weaving, or the |
and charges, and to allay their jealousy; the city usually throwing herself upon him alone, and trusting to his sole conduct, upon the urgency of great affairs and public dangers, by reason of his authority and the sway he bore. |
in like manner if we consider all the miracles done by the hand of moses, and all the rest of the prophets, till the captivity; and those of our saviour, and his apostles afterward; we shall find, their end was alwaies to beget, or confirm beleefe, that |
two hundred eight. when a philosopher nowadays makes known that he is not a skeptic--i hope that has been gathered from the foregoing description of the objective spirit?--people all hear it impatiently; they regard him on that account with some |
to be the principal mark of the essence of what is defined): or (three) that the expression is not peculiar to the object (for, as we said above as well, a definition ought to be peculiar): or else (four) see if, though he has observed all the aforesaid |
in this manner, men may have insensibly acquired some gross ideas of mutual undertakings, and of the advantages of fulfilling them: that is, just so far as their present and apparent interest was concerned: for they were perfect strangers to foresight, |
thirty nine. but as to the question of the reward, it will be necessary to consider what reward, how great a reward is claimed, and why it is claimed; and also, to what reward, and to how great a reward, the conduct in question is entitled. |
the country. and so retail trade will benefit every one, and do the least possible injury to those in the state who practise it. |
to make the religious rites of private persons few, and those common; and every means is to be contrived to associate and blend the people together as much as possible; and that all former customs be broken through. |
caesar, exalted with this success, proposed another law, for dividing almost all the country of campania among the poor and needy citizens. |
were painted with red, and this was that which the pythian prophetess was declaring beforehand to the siphnians, bidding them guard against the "army of wood" and the "red-coloured herald." |
and certainly we see that in the many battles fought betwixt the lacedaemonians and the other greeks, up to the time of philip of macedon, not one of their kings was ever killed, except cleombrotus, by a javelin-wound, at the battle of leuctra. |
after this manner our ancient franks came from the remotest part of germany to seize upon gaul, and to drive thence the first inhabitants; so was that infinite deluge of men made up who came into italy under the conduct of brennus and others; so the goths |
into a contention, who should then be the greater man. |
-all who do not want to live unless they learn again to hope-unless they learn from thee, o zarathustra, the great hope!" |
live any life which does not profit in another world as well as in this. |
with this iris went her way, fleet as the wind, from the heights of ida to the lofty summits of olympus. she met the goddesses at the outer gates of its many valleys and gave them her message. "what," said she, "are you about? are you mad? |
necessarily requiring, that lysander should again take upon him that command, they made one aratus admiral; 'tis true, but withal, lysander went general of the navy; and, by the same subtlety, one of their ambassadors being sent to the athenians to obtain |
the bond of society, however, cannot exist unless it guards and loves all its members. |
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