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ancient and modern philosophers with regard to tragedy--may no longer wander about virtuously and boldly. |
long time after men have begun to constitute common-wealths, imperfect, and apt to relapse into disorder, there may, principles of reason be found out, by industrious meditation, to make use of them, or be neglected by them, or not, concerneth my |
(three) while we know that in this matter there is a great gulf fixed between greek and christian ethics, yet, if we would do justice to the greeks, we must also acknowledge that there was a greater outspokenness among them than among ourselves about the |
or that other tale of how hephaestus, because of similar goings on, cast a chain around ares and aphrodite? |
uprightness of purpose, without wavering or even doubting; then will my youthful hearer be raised gradually from mere approval to admiration, from that to amazement, and finally to the greatest veneration, and a lively wish that he himself could be such a |
the ninth oration of one thousand.t. cicero against marcus antonius. called also the ninth philippio. |
thinking myself in all security and so near to my retreat that i stood in need of no better equipage, one had taken a horse that went very easy upon his pace, but was not very strong. |
have deserved or do deserve well of the republic. |
literally, "to deceive their eyes and ears." |
he would laugh at those who thought that hercules's posterity ought not to use deceit in war: "for where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's." |
invalidating one portion of it. by conversion, in this way. |
fifty nine. and when there have been gathered together of these and of the helots and of the spartans themselves many thousands in the same place, with their women intermingled, they beat their foreheads with a good will and make lamentation without |
like the water, the walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off. |
fifty drachmae, which shall be sacred to dionysus, if he pluck them from his own land; and if from his neighbour's land, a mina, and if from any others', two-thirds of a mina. |
fundamentally, however, the doctrine of the general will is independent of these contradictions. apart from kant's narrow and rigid logic, it is essentially one with his doctrine of the autonomy of the will. |
when i call him calf and coxcomb, i do not pretend to entail those titles upon him for ever; neither do i think i give myself the lie in calling him an honest fellow presently after. no one quality engrosses us purely and universally. |
there are, also, many useful ways of heightening the effect of praise. |
at length, by the entreaty of the other soldiers, the fimbrians, being prevailed upon, consented to tarry that summer under him, but if during that time no enemy came to fight them, to be free. |
and this is the reason why in our state, and in our state only, we shall find a shoemaker to be a shoemaker and not a pilot also, and a husbandman to be a husbandman and not a dicast also, and a soldier a soldier and not a trader also, and the same |
i heartily accept the motto,-"that government is best which governs least;" and i should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. |
but yet, i think they are such as are pardonable, in this ignorance we are in of the nature of that thinking thing that is in us, and which we look on as ourselves. |
things being thus ordered, the megarians were allured with the appearance, and, coming to the shore, jumped out, eager who should first seize a prize, so that not one of them escaped; and the athenians set sail for the island and took it. |
for there were three legions now come to him to supply the place of the men he had lost, of which pompey furnished him with two, out of those under his command; the other was newly raised in the part of gaul by the po. |
the war between the athenians and peloponnesians and the allies on either side now really begins. for now all intercourse except through the medium of heralds ceased, and hostilities were commenced and prosecuted without intermission. |
these and the machlyans dwell round the lake tritonis, and the river triton is the boundary between them: and while the machlyans grow their hair long at the back of the head, the auseans do so in front. |
"plates of steel are placed over the body, so flexible that, dreadful to be seen, you would think these not living men, but moving images. the horses are similarly armed, and, secured from wounds, move their iron shoulders."--claud, in ruf., ii. |
shall they, like the women of thrace, tend cattle and till the ground; or, like our own, spin and weave, and take care of the house? |
lamp. to my mind, a mother's--at least if she be such as mine. |
. to not one of these opinions do i assent. |
if the master was murdered and the perpetrator remained undetected: all these were provisions of athenian law. |
it is therefore evident that the unravelling of the plot, no less than the complication, must arise out of the plot itself, it must not be brought about by the 'deus ex machina'--as in the medea, or in the return of the greeks in the iliad. |
in all things, saving only in those that are evil, a change is to be feared; even the change of seasons, winds, viands, and humours. |
if in addition they were also thought wise, there was nothing that men did not think they could secure under such leadership. |
but callicratidas, to expose the emptiness of these high pretensions, said, "in that case, leave samos on the left hand, and, sailing to miletus, there deliver up the ships to me; for if we are masters of the sea, we need not fear sailing by our enemies |
secret, passing only amongst a few, under some kind of caution and confidence. |
--which fortune has lately offered me upon the account of this work, had befallen me in that time of my life, instead of this, wherein 'tis equally desirable to possess, soon to be lost! |
"hoc sermone pavent, hoc iram, gaudia, curas, hoc cuncta effundunt animi secreta; quid ultra? concumbunt docte;" |
exhausted i see thee, by poisonous flies; bleeding i see thee, and torn at a hundred spots; and thy pride will not even upbraid. |
sixty three and jan yu also said: "the sage exercises both civil and military functions." sixty four can it be a fact that confucius never studied or received instruction in the art of war? |
this actually happened to david hume, though he did not conceive the question in its entire universality as is done here, and as must be done, should the answer be decisive for all metaphysics. |
then thus replied the prophetess divine: "o goddess-born of great anchises' line, the gates of hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but to return, and view the cheerful skies, in this the task and mighty labour lies. |
assembly, that liberty is taken away, both because he that protesteth there, denies their soveraignty; and also because whatsoever is commanded by the soveraign power, is as to the subject (though not so alwayes in the sight of god) justified by the |
cassiopea one hundred ninety with a faintish light; but near her moves (fair and illustrious sight!) andromeda, one hundred ninety one who, with an eager pace, seems to avoid her parent's mournful face. |
verres was thus convicted; though cicero, who set the fine at seventy-five myriads, lay under the suspicion of being corrupted by bribery to lessen the sum. |
at present what is obvious is that what is seen in light is always colour. that is why without the help of light colour remains invisible. |
one of them deeply interesting us in our own welfare and preservation, and the other exciting a natural repugnance at seeing any other sensible being, and particularly any of our own species, suffer pain or death. |
the platonic socrates (for of the real socrates this may be doubted: compare his public rebuke of critias for his shameful love of euthydemus in xenophon, memorabilia) does not regard the greatest evil of greek life as a thing not to be spoken of; but it |
chosen words. see, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes. |
the tree of life; whereof hee had liberty to eat, as long as hee had not sinned; and that hee was thrust out of paradise after he had sinned, lest hee should eate thereof, and live for ever; and that christs passion is a discharge of sin to all that |
hold your tongue, said alcibiades, for by poseidon, there is no one else whom one will praise when you are of the company. |
there is a fourth class of persons answering to our spectators, who come from another land to look at ours. |
magistrates, and behaved himself in his office with great skill and conduct. |
falsus, et admoto dictet periuria tauro, |
and these lines are out of the satiric play of achus, called omphale; so that they are mistaken who say that he had never read anything but the medea of euripides, which is found, they add, in the collection of neophron, the sicyonian. |
no one shall go in a private capacity, but only in some public one, as a herald, or on an embassy, or on a sacred mission. going abroad on an expedition or in war is not to be included among travels of the class authorised by the state. |
quod futuit glaphyran antonius, hanc mihi poenam fulvia constituit, se quoqne uti futuam. fulviam ego ut futuam! quid, si me manius oret podicem, faciam? non puto, si sapiam. aut futue, aut pugnemus, ait quid, si mihi vitii charior est ipsa mentula? |
falls only on those who are well-to-do. precautions against smuggling ought not to be dictated so much by the fear of it occurring, as by the attention which the government should pay to securing individuals from being seduced by illegitimate profits, |
certain length of duration, whereof we have the idea in our minds. |
over and above this which is formed in the parts? is love the cause of any and every mixture, or only of those that are in the right ratio? is love this ratio itself, or is love something over and above this? such are the problems raised by this account. |
as to the first and only means to arrive at such cognitions, namely, through mere conceptions or intuitions a priori, it is quite clear that from mere conceptions no synthetical cognitions, but only analytical ones, can be obtained. |
(two) cowardice, which leads to capture; |
another man's province than his own reading those books, converse with the great and heroic souls reasons often anticipate the effect recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase refusin to justify, excuse, or explain myself regret so |
alone and elderly, and seeing everything around me in the hands of the enemy, still i declare that my property is whole and untouched. i have, i hold whatever of mine i have ever had. |
and now when cassius and some others were laying hands upon their daggers under their robes, and were drawing them out, brutus, viewing narrowly the looks and gesture of laenas, and finding that he was earnestly petitioning and not accusing, said nothing, |
this worthy went ably to work: he was more assiduous than before in the service of that king, so that he obtained the honour to be of his council, and one of the chiefest in his trust. |
having been originally sensuous intuitions, they are reduced to signs, and thus have only traces left of their original meaning, if it be not altogether extinguished. |
i should like to conduct the argument on some other method; for if you regard numbers, there are two cities on one side, and ten thousand on the other. 'i am ready to pursue any method which is likely to lead us to the truth.' |
during the armistice the athenians expelled the delians from delos, concluding that they must have been polluted by some old offence at the time of their consecration, and that this had been the omission in the previous purification of the island, which, |
one must prepare one's self a fortress in one's own impregnable thoughts. |
eight. objection.--answer.--but, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them, whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind in an unthinking substance. |
but truly tell, was it for force or guile, or some religious end, you rais'd the pile?' thus said the king. he, full of fraudful arts, this well-invented tale for truth imparts: 'ye lamps of heav'n!' |
making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. |
but the first alternative is absurd (by the last prop., the proof of which is universal, and can be applied to all individual things). |
seventy six. under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself. |
the fiercest clamour arose from the veteran soldiers, who, as they counted their thirty campaigns or more, implored him to relieve worn-out men, and not let them die under the same hardships, but have an end of such harassing service, and repose without |
could not be much, nor to the prejudice of others, where the same plenty was still left to those who would use the same industry. |
to which if we add the public nature of the facts, as related, it will appear, that no evidence can well be supposed stronger for so gross and so palpable a falsehood. |
the theoretical part, too, is subdivided into physics and logic; the latter forming not a single division, turning on one special point, but being rather an instrument for every art brought to a high degree of accuracy. |
"men may be bad in many ways, but good in one alone." |
"posthumus, he who ever smells well does not smell well." --idem, ii. twelve, fourteen. |
of this part, that desire is appetite, with consciousness thereof; further, that appetite is the essence of man, in so far as it is determined to act in a way tending to promote its own persistence. |
proof.--the proof of this proposition is similar to that of the last. |
proof.--in so far as we conceive a thing as contingent, we are affected by the conception of some further thing, which would assert the existence of the former (four. def. |
then carrying aid to the neapolitans and nolans, he confirmed the minds of the former, who, indeed, were of their own accord faithful enough to the romans; but in nola he found a state of discord, the senate not being able to rule and keep in the common |
trust from others business to-morrow but ill proves the honour and beauty of an action by its utility but it is not enough that our education does not spoil us by resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the fault by suspecting them, have given them a |
it is the business of a physical psychology to describe in detail the steps by which the body we are attached to is made inward as our idea through the several organs and their nervous appurtenances: whereas a psychical physiology would conversely explain |
she took great pains that he should see her in tears, and, as soon as he noticed it, hastily dried them up and turned away, as if it were her wish that he should know nothing of it. |
thirty nine. nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in |
"non est enim hilaritate, nec lascivia, nec risu, aut joco comite levitatis, sed saepe etiam tristes firmitate et constantia sunt beati." |
the meaning of these authors to posterity." i introduced didymus and eustathius to homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet. |
as such a ship huggeth the shore, tuggeth the shore:-then it sufficeth for a spider to spin its thread from the ship to the land. no stronger ropes are required there. |
they are subtleties, indeed, with which she often alarms us to little purpose. |
these he led out and having engaged battle with the persians he was worsted, and astyages himself was taken alive, and he lost also those of the medes whom he had led forth. |
but the macrones, armed with wicker shields and lances and hair tunics, were already drawn up to receive them opposite the crossing. |
it is only those that would gladly deny to pure reason the power of determining the will, without the presupposition of any feeling, who could deviate so far from their own exposition as to describe as quite heterogeneous what they have themselves |
i am very ready to oppose myself against those vain circumstances that delude our judgments by the senses; and keeping my eye close upon those extraordinary greatnesses, i find that at best they are men, as others are: |
one hundred twenty. thus the priests of the egyptians told me; and i myself also agree with the story which was told of helen, adding this consideration, namely that if helen had been in ilion she would have been given up to the hellenes, whether |
achilles' right arm drawing dark blood, but the spear itself went by him and fixed itself in the ground, foiled of its bloody banquet. |
had done ill in his office, he ought to be called to account for it; but the authority of the magistracy ought not to suffer for the faults of the magistrate. |
it was customary for the kings to offer sacrifice to mars, at passaro, a place in the molossian country, and that done to enter into a solemn covenant with the epirots; they to govern according to law, these to preserve the government as by law |
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