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is the behaviour and conduct of the one sex very unlike that of the other? is it thence we become acquainted with the different characters which nature has impressed upon the sexes, and which she preserves with constancy and regularity? |
but those who upon this fasten stories of their own invention, as of his being disowned by his father, and that his mother died for grief of her son's ill fame, certainly calumniate him; and there are others who relate, on the contrary, how that to deter |
now every sensation has a degree or quantity by which it can fill time, that is to say, the internal sense in respect of the representation of an object, more or less, until it vanishes into nothing ( zero negatio). |
"my house and the forms of places float before my eyes" --ovid, trist, iii. four, fifty seven. |
the greeks him ophiuchus call, renown'd the name. |
lost. and though he had brought with him several of ptolemy's stewards, who could testify to his integrity, and stop the mouths of enemies and false accusers, yet the loss annoyed him, and he was vexed with himself about the matter, as he had designed |
being blind and poor, living before the sciences were reduced into rule and certain observation, he was so well acquainted with them, that all those who have since taken upon them to establish governments, to carry on wars, and to write either of religion |
manius, the roman consul, after the defeat of antiochus, requested the achaeans to restore the banished lacedaemonians to their country, which motion was seconded and supported by all the interest of titus. |
in general, universals are easier game for the destroyer than particulars: for whether the predicate belongs to none or not to some, they are destroyed: and the particular negative is proved in all the figures, the universal negative in two. |
for the thing known is explained as that which is known by something, that is, by knowledge. such things, then, as are opposite the one to the other in the sense of being correlatives are explained by a reference of the one to the other. |
is it to be enough that a man has the strength to expel others for a moment, in order to establish his right to prevent them from ever returning? |
station, they appear various, and cannot therefore be the images of anything settled and determinate without the mind? |
prevailed with to come into sicily; but if plato did come, dion should be assured of whatever he desired. |
and the desires of which a man may get rid, if he takes pains from his youth upwards-of which the presence, moreover, does no good, and in some cases the reverse of good-shall we not be right in saying that all these are unnecessary? |
(one) epigenes, possibly the son of antiphon. see plat. "apol." thirty three e; "phaed." fifty nine b. |
the laws are executed; who take care of the boys and preside over their education. to these may be added those who have the care of their gymnastic exercises, a their theatres, and every other public spectacle which there may happen to be. |
their fatal tendencies, or to oppose adequate obstacles to their decline and fall. |
plato, who is desirous of mingling different elements, makes a partial use of the lot, which he applies to candidates already elected by vote. |
the "positive supersession(one hundred seven)" of individualism and naturalism in ethics is by hegel called "absolute ethics." |
it wavered between object and subject, passing imperceptibly from one or being to mind and thought. appearance in the outward object was for a time indistinguishable from opinion in the subject. |
how then shall a man endure such persons as this slave? slave yourself, will you not bear with your own brother, who has zeus for his progenitor, and is like a son from the same seeds and of the same descent from above? |
having accepted it, is the subject of him that took him; because he had no other way to preserve himselfe. the case is the same, if he be deteined on the same termes, in a forreign country. |
gorgon, or the isle ophiusa,) but still greatest he the midst, now dragon grown, larger than whom the sun ingendered in the pythian vale or slime, huge python, and his power no less he seemed above the rest still to retain; they all him followed, issuing |
false values and fatuous words: these are the worst monsters for mortals-long slumbereth and waiteth the fate that is in them. |
cause, for evils past; yet much more cheered with meditation on the happy end. he ended, and they both descend the hill; descended, adam to the bower, where eve lay sleeping, ran before; but found her waked; and thus with words not sad she him received. |
the lives of the last duke of alva, and of our constable de montmorency, were both of them great and noble, and that had many rare resemblances of fortune; but the beauty and glory of the death of the last, in the sight of paris and of his king, in their |
we are all steeped in it, as well one as another; but they who are not aware on't, have somewhat the better bargain; and yet i know not whether they have or no. |
why need we wonder if those who begin to climb a steep path do not succeed in ascending it very high? yet, if you be a man, look with respect on those who attempt great things, even though they fall. |
and do we know what we opine? or is the subject-matter of opinion the same as the subject-matter of knowledge? |
he was wonderfully fond of his father antigonus; and the tenderness he had for his mother led him, for her sake, to redouble attentions, which it was evident were not so much owing to fear or duty as to the more powerful motives of inclination. |
athenian: let us see if we can discover what comes fourth and fifth. |
crete to investigate the history of that country, and to egypt for the purpose of conferring with the priests and astronomers who are to be found there, and yet are unwilling to make a voyage to you; for solon will come too, if you will give him leave, |
here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth not fall down before him." |
supposing that the ship of artemisia was either a hellenic ship or was deserting from the barbarians and fighting for the hellenes, |
fifthly, supposing the number of counsellors equall, a man is better counselled by hearing them apart, then in an assembly; and that for many causes. |
but yet this property has no necessary connexion with that complex idea, or any part of it: and there is no more reason to think that malleableness depends on that colour, weight, and hardness, than that colour or that weight depends on its malleableness. |
there are also three good dispositions of the mind; joy, caution, and will. |
scipio. you grant, then, that a state which is entirely in the power of a faction cannot justly be entitled a political community? |
note.--the multitude understand by the power of god the free will of god, and the right over all things that exist, which latter are accordingly generally considered as contingent. |
when in his old age he was watching some athletes practising in the course, he is said to have looked at his arms and to have exclaimed with tears in his eyes: "ah well! these are now as good as dead." not a bit more so than yourself, you trifler! |
the law is preceded by an admonition, in which the offenders are informed that no one ever did an unholy act or said an unlawful word while he retained his belief in the existence of the gods; but either he denied their existence, or he believed that they |
one hundred forty seven videndum fifty c, edd.; vivendum b h a b. |
between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. the grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.' chap. twenty. one. tsze-chang asked, 'what must the officer be, who may be said to be distinguished?' two. |
representation (the latter depending upon determination through categories): remembering, as already noted, that what is actually present in mind need not be therefore explicitly realised in consciousness, just as little as the exaltation of the |
one hundred thirty four conversation, then, in which the socratics are the best models, should have these qualities. it should be easy and not in the least dogmatic; it should have the spice of wit. |
eighteen. another line of argument is based on the fact that men do not always make the same choice on a later as on an earlier occasion, but reverse their previous choice. e.g. |
know the name of rhodopis, and then after her one whose name was archidiche became a subject of song over all hellas, though she was less talked of than the other. |
"nam ubi libido dominatur innocentiae leve praesidium est." |
and as state is to state in virtue and happiness, so is man in relation to man? |
they, hardened more by what might most reclaim, grieving to see his glory, at the sight took envy; and, aspiring to his highth, stood re-embattled fierce, by force or fraud weening to prosper, and at length prevail against god and messiah, or to fall in |
he takes for granted wherever any one still professes to belong to the church. |
lawes, to the molestation of the common-wealth; like the little wormes, which physicians call ascarides. |
valerius flaccus given him as his instrument, rather than his colleague, in the consulship. |
but that which exceeded all the former follies and flatteries, was the proposal of dromoclides of sphettus; who, when there was a debate about sending to the delphic oracle to inquire the proper course for the consecration of certain bucklers, moved in |
twenty one. scipio. i might reply at great length to these sophistical objections of philus, if it were not, my laelius, that all our friends are no less anxious than myself to hear you take a leading part in the present debate, especially as you promised |
the gods arranged all this, and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about. did you lose some brave kinsman of your wife's when you were before troy? |
that can keep themselves upright in despite of a pedantic education. but it is not enough that our education does not spoil us; it must, moreover, alter us for the better. |
as soon as we were well away from the island, and could see nothing but sky and sea, the son of saturn raised a black cloud over our ship, and the sea grew dark beneath it. |
eight. but with this step our perplexity seems rather to increase than to lessen. for the question now is, "how is it possible to intuite in a visual form anything a priori?" |
moreover, if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and |
this pleased artaxerxes, and he was the more inclined to show pelopidas attention and honor, being desirous to seem reverenced, and attended by the greatest. |
if i should ever succeed in carrying out all that i have set myself to accomplish, you may then demand that my words and deeds should correspond," but he who has reached the summit of human perfection will deal otherwise with you, and will say, "in the |
does it follow from this that the general will is exterminated or corrupted? not at all: it is always constant, unalterable and pure; but it is subordinated to other wills which encroach upon its sphere. |
when simmias and cebes say that they are more strongly persuaded of the existence of ideas than they are of the immortality of the soul, they represent fairly enough the order of thought in greek philosophy. |
greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. after this he joined megara to attica, and erected that famous pillar on the isthmus, which bears an inscription of two lines, showing the bounds of the two countries that meet there. |
consecrated precinct of zeus for fear of the lacedaemonians), to restore him with the same dances and sacrifices with which they had instituted their kings upon the first settlement of lacedaemon. |
yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has |
suited to a lofty and magniloquent subject but ephorus himself, an inconsiderable orator, though coming from an excellent school, inclines to the paeon, or dactyl, but avoids the spondee and trochee. |
but i shall adduce examples, taken from common life, that are more obvious still. |
post. i.) of a variety of individual parts of different nature, and may therefore (ax.i. after lemma iii. after two. |
whoever died so erect, or more like a man? |
after refitting their ships, gylippus and pythen coasted along from tarentum to epizephyrian locris. |
grant, one thousand eight hundred fifty seven-eight, one thousand eight hundred sixty six, one thousand eight hundred seventy four, one thousand eight hundred eighty five; e. |
afterwards, however, it always made him laugh, when he either told the story or was otherwise reminded of it. |
your will and your valuations have ye put on the river of becoming; it betrayeth unto me an old will to power, what is believed by the people as good and evil. |
terentia, therefore, as she was otherwise in her own nature neither tender-hearted nor timorous, but a woman eager for distinction (who, as cicero himself says, would rather thrust herself into his public affairs, than communicate her domestic matters to |
his patrimony should be equally so, and the inactive man was liable to prosecution by any one who choose to impeach him." but lysias, in his speech against nicias, says that draco first proposed this law, but that it was solon who enacted it. |
sect. two hundred twenty one. there is therefore, secondly, another way whereby governments are dissolved, and that is, when the legislative, or the prince, either of them, act contrary to their trust. |
with the deduction, that is, the justification of its objective and universal validity, and the discernment of the possibility of such a synthetical proposition a priori, we cannot expect to succeed so well as in the case of the principles of pure |
beneath of an altar in front of the headquarters, corbulo, by exaggerating everything, filled him with admiration of our ancient system. |
are they not, cebes, such as compel the things of which they have possession, not only to take their own form, but also the form of some opposite? |
and the true philosophers, and they only, are ever seeking to release the soul. is not the separation and release of the soul from the body their especial study? |
is to say, we give the name to those who fail of self-control and spend money on the unrestrained gratification of their passions; and this is why they are thought to be most base, because they have many vices at once. |
himself: he caused a scaffold, more long than broad, to be erected, supported by columns royally adorned with tapestry and strewed with flowers and abundance of perfumes; all which being prepared, in a robe of cloth of gold, set full of jewels of great |
this determination of place cannot be derived from the relation of phenomena to absolute time (for it is not an object of perception); but, on the contrary, phenomena must reciprocally determine the places in time of one another, and render these |
he said, amongst other things at his death, that he was obliged to the gods, and thanked them, in that they would not cut him off by surprise, having long before advertised him of the place and hour of his death, nor by a mean and unmanly death, more |
we may learn the wish (will) of nature from the things in which we do not differ from one another: for instance, when your neighbor's slave has broken his cup, or anything else, we are ready to say forthwith, that it is one of the things which happen. |
why, yes, to be sure (replied the youth); for without that much discernment i should indeed be worse than any slave. (forty six) |
and inasmuch as they are two, each of them is one? |
to which i answer, that, though the idea i have in view whilst i make the demonstration be, for instance, that of an isosceles rectangular triangle whose sides are of a determinate length, i may nevertheless be certain it extends to all other rectilinear |
he is said, however, to have borne the loss moderately, and like a philosopher, and was nothing the more remiss in attending to affairs of state; so that he did not, as lucius lucullus and metellus pius did, grow languid in his old age, as though public |
now, therefore, let us all do as i say; let us bring down the ships that are on the beach and draw them into the water; let us make them fast to their mooring-stones a little way out, against the fall of night-if even by night the trojans will desist from |
which way can we better prove it than by itself? |
h this story is told of cleomenes, king of sparta (five hundred twenty-four hundred ninety one b.one hundred.), in the war with argos. (plutarch, apophth. lacon. two hundred twenty three a.) |
the phbe had already come once more and looked in at my door and window, to see if my house was cavern-like enough for her, sustaining herself on humming wings with clinched talons, as if she held by the air, while she surveyed the premises. |
but it was thought somewhat strange, and looked like willfulness and pride, that when the consuls and praetors appeared, he did not disembark, nor stay to salute them, but rowed up the stream in a royal galley of six banks of oars, and stopped not till he |
animals. indeed it is brutish to take pleasure in such things and to like them best of all; for the most respectable of the pleasures arising from the touch have been set aside; those, for instance, which occur in the course of gymnastic training from the |
now first of all this is a fallacy: not every differentia precludes identity, since many differentiae inhere in things specifically identical, though not in the substance of these nor essentially. |
oedipus. prince, they would fain convey me back to thebes. |
by which a chiliogone differs from other polygones or manyangled figures . |
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