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of brothers between them, as if i had all the skill of a midwife: the notion that the same woman contributed, as mother, equally to their births, (though i were ignorant or mistaken in the manner of it,) being that on which i grounded the relation; and |
and whatever is talked of other definitions, ingenious observation puts it past doubt, that the idea in our minds, of which the sound man in our mouths is the sign, is nothing else but of an animal of such a certain form. |
i am like an infant which has not yet smiled. i look dejected and forlorn, as if i had no home to go to. the multitude of men all have enough and to spare. i alone seem to have lost everything. my mind is that of a stupid man; i am in a state of chaos. |
immeasurable capacity for marvellousness. but i can assure my readers that walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. |
cause his imagination to waver (see two. xliv. note). thus, although the man be assumed to acquiesce in what is false, we shall never say that he is certain. for by certainty we mean something positive (two. xliii. |
c. f. what are the arguments which you say belong to the cause? |
for you know that in all these cases the esse-percipi theory appears to be unmistakably refuted, since in dreams and illusions we certainly have false perceptions; and far from saying that everything is which appears, we should rather say that nothing is |
the same inability will every one find in himself, who shall go about to fashion in his understanding one simple idea, not received in by his senses from external objects, or by reflection from the operations of his own mind about them. |
these forms, taken separately, was absolutely good; but i described as preferable to either of them that mixed government which is composed of a proper amalgamation of these simple ingredients. |
i however, on behalf of him and also of the other persians, will not cease until i have conquered athens and burnt it with fire; seeing that they did wrong unprovoked to me and to my father. |
so saying, from the tree her step she turned; but first low reverence done, as to the power that dwelt within, whose presence had infused into the plant sciential sap, derived from nectar, drink of gods. |
after long conversation, eumenes making no mention of his own pardon and security, but requiring that he should be confirmed in his several governments, and restitution be made him of the rewards of his service, all that were present were astonished at |
chanced to be by when he encountered with and mastered a huge lion, told him he had fought gallantly with the beast, which of the two should be king. |
it has some characteristics in common with the object which admit of transformation, but it also differs from them, inasmuch as it does not allow any distinct parts to be discerned in it. |
but when the thebans merely retorted by demanding philotas and antipater to be delivered into their hands, and by a proclamation on their part, invited all who would assert the liberty of greece to come over to them, he presently applied himself to make |
day; by art, as in the case of a man who paints well; by chance, as in the case of a man who has a prosperous voyage. none of these things are without some cause, and yet none of them are wholly owing to any single cause. |
"that," replied lysander, "is perhaps rather said by you, than done by me; i desire only, that you will assign me some office and place, in which i may serve you without incurring your displeasure." |
they make no use of sails, nor have regular benches of oars at the sides: they row, as is practised in some rivers, without order, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, as occasion requires. |
he was also indistinct. how he raged at us, this wrath-snorter, because we understood him badly! but why did he not speak more clearly? |
themselves in some degree with this greater whole, to feel themselves members of their country, and to love it with that exquisite feeling which no isolated person has save for himself; to lift up their spirits perpetually to this great object, and thus |
still they went to the boeotians and tried to persuade them to alliance and a common action generally with argos and themselves, and also begged them to go with them to athens and obtain for them a ten days' truce similar to that made between the |
it was indeed the opinion of all the others, when they consulted about the execution of their design, that it was necessary to cut off antony with caesar, looking upon him as an insolent man, an affecter of monarchy, and one that, by his familiar |
every way always produces very ill effects. it is much more worthy and more becoming to exercise ourselves in things that strengthen than that weaken our government and that tend to the public safety and common glory. |
with thought of this vision therefore i both urged on this marriage for thee, and i refuse now to send thee upon the matter which is being taken in hand, having a care of thee that i may steal thee from thy fate at least for the period of my own life, if |
and those who do not return our kindnesses seem to think that those kindnesses were conferred by inferiors. and we feel particularly angry with men of no account at all, if they slight us. |
darkness. he admired their harbours, ships, places of assembly, and the lofty walls of the city, which, with the palisade on top of them, were very striking, and when they reached the king's house minerva said: |
fifteen five. formam quidem ipsam, marce fili, et tamquam faciem honesti vides, "quae si oculis cerneretur, mirabiles amores," ut ait plato, "excitaret sapientiae." |
six. on one occasion, when a sparrow was pursued by a hawk, and flew into his bosom, he caressed it, and let it go again, saying that we ought not to betray a suppliant. |
this act for some time checked the avarice of the richer, and was of great assistance to the poorer people, who retained under it their respective proportions of ground, as they had been formerly rented by them. |
but if i am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, i am glad to be wrong; nor will i allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as i live. |
nothing is concluded; but the tendency of the dialectical process, here as always, is to enlarge our conception of ideas, and to widen their application to human life. |
presage and inspiration rightly ascribe to god. |
and when you are come away, do not talk much about what has passed on the stage, except about that which may lead to your own improvement. for it is plain, if you do talk much, that you admired the spectacle (more than you ought). |
to know the law of themselves, there is one that hath authority to enforme them of it, in the particular case they are to judge of. |
and i am surprised that posidonius has but briefly touched upon this subject in certain memoirs of his, and especially, as he states that there is no other topic in the whole range of philosophy so essentially important as this. |
thus most men, like spendthrift heirs, are apt to judge a little in hand better than a great deal to come; and so, for small matters in possession, part with greater ones in reversion. |
and they deny that any man has ever been seen who does not know what it is to be angry; and they name what we call lenity by the bad appellation of indolence. |
a meer denomination , but a real error of nature for it to thirst when drink is hurtful to it. it remains therefore here to be inquired, how the goodness of god suffers nature so taken to be deceivable . |
whether of joy or sorrow, acquires new force and vigour. in producing this effect, there concur both a relation and a present impression. |
about this time mithridates left pergamus, and retired to pitane, where being closely besieged by fimbria on the land, and not daring to engage with so bold and victorious a commander, he was concerting means for escape by sea, and sent for all his fleets |
meanwhile the chians and pedaritus, undeterred by the backwardness of astyochus, went on sending messengers pressing him to come with all the fleet to assist them against their besiegers, and not to leave the greatest of the allied states in ionia to be |
one hundred fifty six. men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, lie, like broken bows, sighing after the past. |
so many other thoughts traverse this, that it languishes and tires at last. |
the legions were stationed in the rear, before the intrenchments; a disposition which would render the victory signally glorious, if it were obtained without the expense of roman blood; and would ensure support if the rest of the army were repulsed. |
it was commonly reported that snakes had been seen by his cradle, which they seemed to guard, a fabulous tale invented to match the marvels of other lands. |
and our answer will be that, even as they are, our guardians may very likely be the happiest of men; but that our aim in founding the state was not the disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole; we thought that |
and so, with the advantage which the ring gave him, he debauched the queen, and with her assistance he murdered his royal master and removed all those who he thought stood in his way, without anyone's being able to detect him in his crimes. |
for these sorts of exercises, and no others, are useful both in peace and war, and are beneficial alike to states and to private houses. but other labours and sports and exercises of the body are unworthy of freemen, o megillus and cleinias. |
we start back horrified from this platonic ideal, in the belief, first, that the higher feelings of humanity are far too strong to be crushed out; secondly, that if the plan could be carried into execution we should be poorly recompensed by improvements |
therefore, at present i not only agree with quintus fufius, but i even return thanks to him, for he has given utterance to opinions which are upright, and dignified, and worthy of the republic. |
the fleet, about the same time, with prosperous gales and renown, entered the trutulensian one hundred twenty four harbor, whence, coasting all the hither shore of britain, it returned entire to its former station. one hundred twenty five |
cleinias: if you are speaking of that, you will find in us hearers who are disposed to receive what you say not unfavourably but most favourably. |
why are nature's changes bound to a fixed and ordered round? what to leagued peace hath bent every warring element? wherefore doth the rosy morn rise on phoebus' car upborne? why should phoebe rule the night, led by hesper's guiding light? |
polemarchs, one hundred sixty five not being of the royal house, and of the athenians themistocles the son of neocles. |
readily than others; and therefore are more generally received: though that too be according as the organs of our bodies and powers of our minds happen to be employed; god having fitted men with faculties and means to discover, receive, and retain truths, |
the king had lately called upon him for the tribute from his government, for which he was in arrears, being unable to raise it from the hellenic towns by reason of the athenians; and he therefore calculated that by weakening the athenians he should get |
but if you deify these, erechtheus surely is a god, whose temple and priest we have seen at athens. and can you, then, refuse to acknowledge also codrus, and many others who shed their blood for the preservation of their country? |
first the eighth, then the fifteenth legion returned; the ninth cried again and again that they ought to wait for the letter from tiberius, but soon finding themselves isolated by the departure of the rest, they voluntarily forestalled their inevitable |
'what need to speak of the forged letters by which an attempt is made to prove that i hoped for the freedom of rome? |
talk of it by all means to your son or your servant, like that old fellow who, having no other auditor of his praises nor approver of his valour, boasted to his chambermaid, crying, "o perrete, what a brave, clever man hast thou for thy master!" |
"the privilege of nature;" theophrastus, "a silent deceit;" theocritus, "an ivory mischief;" carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards." |
and the ister flows at an equal level always both in summer and in winter for some such cause as this, as i suppose:-in winter it is of the natural size, or becomes only a little larger than its nature, seeing that this land receives very little rain in |
a scheme unexecuted is with them a positive loss, a successful enterprise a comparative failure. |
'tis pity that we should fool ourselves with our own fopperies and inventions, |
gorgos accordingly being robbed of the city went for refuge to the medes, and onesilos was ruler of salamis and endeavoured to persuade all the men of cyprus to join him in revolt. |
ten. the most important events, o conscript fathers, are often determined by very trivial moving influences in every circumstance that can happen in the republic, and also in war, and especially in civil war, which is usually governed a great deal by |
sect. two hundred twelve. besides this over-turning from without, governments are dissolved from within. |
it is the law of the natural will or character which from an inaccessible background dominates our action,-which, because it is not realised and formulated in consciousness, behaves like a guardian spirit, or genius, or destiny within us. |
dionysus, close to munychia, and there held an assembly in which they decided to march into the city, and setting forth accordingly halted in the anaceum. |
my house never pleased my eye so much after it was plastered, though i was obliged to confess that it was more comfortable. |
thus if to substance be joined the simple idea of a certain dull whitish colour, with certain degrees of weight, hardness, ductility, and fusibility, we have the idea of lead; and a combination of the ideas of a certain sort of figure, with the powers of |
certainly in any concern of mine have trusted my interest much more willingly with him, than with myself. |
above all, the essayist uncased himself, and made his intellectual and physical organism public property. he took the world into his confidence on all subjects. |
ravaging the lands near sparta, they went back home. |
and they, tying a thread to the image, and holding one end of it, went down to the tribunal; but when they came to the temple of the furies, the thread broke of its own accord, upon which, as if the goddess had refused them protection, they were seized by |
for if a true survey be taken of counsellors and statesmen, there may be found (though rarely) those which can make a small state great, and yet cannot fiddle; as on the other side, there will be found a great many, that can fiddle very cunningly, but yet |
dangerous hands. in my time the pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing) was not permitted but to those who had some faithful and only friend; but now the ordinary discourse and common table-talk is nothing but boasts of favours |
even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. it is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. a wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. |
oh, what a soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity, whereon to repose a well-ordered head! |
it is only among the most illustrious and courageous nations that they are to be found; it is only among free peoples that the dignity of man is realised. |
saturninus, to those who had conferred upon him the command in chief: "companions," said he, "you have lost a good captain, to make of him a bad general." |
sertorius, who when prosperity failed him, became exasperated by his disasters against those who had done him wrong. |
his argument, however, really rests on the fundamental character of the general will. |
but i asked once, and suffocated almost with my question: what? is the rabble also necessary for life? |
they, with an army of forty thousand, waited the coming of aemilius, who brought with him not above eight thousand, so that the enemy was five to one when they engaged; yet he vanquished and put them to flight, forcing them to retire into their walled |
in the same way every one of those who walk out to swell the crowd in the streets, is led round the city by worthless and empty reasons; the dawn drives him forth, although he has nothing to do, and after he has pushed his way into many men's doors, and |
or is there a hidden being which is allied to the author of all existence, who is because he is perfect, and to whom our ideas of perfection give us a title to belong? |
provinciall lawes are not made by custome, but by the soveraign power |
taken under the protection of law? is the belief in a god one of the opinions, to feel sure of which, you hold to be assuming infallibility? |
nigh rising atlas, next the falling sun, long tracts of ethiopian climates run: there a massylian priestess i have found, honour'd for age, for magic arts renown'd: th' hesperian temple was her trusted care; 'twas she supplied the wakeful dragon's fare. |
but some one may say, that it is wrong to let man have the supreme power and not the law, as his soul is subject to so many passions. but if this law appoints an aristocracy, or a democracy, how will it help us in our present doubts? |
forty four alter locus erat cautionis, ne benignitas maior esset quam facultates, quod, qui benigniores volunt esse, quam res patitur, primum in eo peccant, quod iniuriosi sunt in proximos; quas enim copias his thirty eight et suppeditari aequius est et |
for solon is mistaken in saying that an old man can be always learning; youth is the time of study, and here we must remember that the mind is free and dainty, and, unlike the body, must not be made to work against the grain. |
true christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind: this short life counts for too little in their eyes. |
such chiefs are courted by embassies; distinguished by presents; and often by their reputation alone decide a war. |
we must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if not homogeneous, whether its various forms are different specifically or generically: up to the present time those who have |
nineteen. if it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. |
to execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things. |
but listen now, and cease to let thy heart consume away with fretfulness, nor expect to live on thine own terms in a realm that is common to all.' |
socrates: and would you say that courage differed from pleasure? |
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