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addressed to aristagoras; four books of probable conjunctive reasons, addressed to dioscorides. |
twenty seven. ideas of space and solidity distinct. |
this is the kind of disparaging remark that would be made about me, and i could not complain, for i should myself be scandalised at seeing any other girl do the like, and go about with men in spite of everybody, while her father and mother were still |
promised by fabius. in conclusion, the bargain was struck, and the promise made of delivering the town. |
a man should abhor lawsuits as much as he may a person's look is but a feeble warranty accept all things we are not able to refute admiration is the foundation of all philosophy advantageous, too, a little to recede from one's right all i say is by way of |
virtually known. for example, the student knew beforehand that the angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles; but it was only at the actual moment at which he was being led on to recognize this as true in the instance before him that he came |
(twelve) e.g. xenophanes and parmenides, see grote, "plato," i. i. sixteen foll. |
it is therefore manifest, that the words of st. mark are not so to be interpreted. there be some of them that stand here (saith our saviour) that shall not tast of death till they have seen the kingdome of god come in power. |
soc. i presume that those who obey the laws do what is just and right? |
afterwards to restore him to his command, and so to manifest how much upon him depended their safety and honour; victory like a shadow attending him wherever he went; and indeed the prosperity of his country, as being from him derived, died with him. |
but now leave, i pray you, this nursery, mine own cave, where to-day all childishness is carried on. cool down, here outside, your hot child-wantonness and heart-tumult! |
colonising libya to be the cause. as then they had no remedy for their evil, they sent messengers to crete, to find out whether any of the cretans or of the sojourners in crete had ever come to libya. |
but fourteen suppose that there is an angry struggle on both sides, even then, he is the better man who first gives way; the winner is the real loser. |
for though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes. |
but, if in this thy faint heart fails, bring me thy failure! find refuge in me! |
prove the reality of the foregoing principle. |
conceptions, then, are based on the spontaneity of thought, as sensuous intuitions are on the receptivity of impressions. now, the understanding cannot make any other use of these conceptions than to judge by means of them. |
it is easy to see how the establishment of one community made that of all the rest necessary, and how, in order to make head against united forces, the rest of mankind had to unite in turn. |
the third is incident to the other two; and that is the decay of customs of kings or states, which ebb or flow, with merchandizing. the fourth, that it bringeth the treasure of a realm, or state, into a few hands. |
nothing, however, will be of so much service as to consider, first, the hideousness, and, secondly, the danger of anger. no passion bears a more troubled aspect: it befouls the fairest face, makes fierce the expression which before was peaceful. |
twelve. hope is an inconstant pleasure, arising from the idea of something past or future, whereof we to a certain extent doubt the issue. |
or proves that virtue is vice and vice virtue, and his mind becomes unsettled, and he ceases to love, honour, and obey them as he has hitherto done. he is seduced into the life of pleasure, and becomes a lawless person and a rogue. |
after they had retired the athenians set guards by land and sea at the points at which they intended to have regular stations during the war. they also resolved to set apart a special fund of a thousand talents from the moneys in the acropolis. |
for my own part, one confess one cannot forbear starting when the rattle of a harquebuse thunders in my ears on a sudden, and in a place where i am not to expect it, which i have also observed in others, braver fellows than i. |
when he begat you;" and for the same reason he nicknamed him the chatterer, as he himself was very concise in his speeches. |
otherwise, there will be more than one definition of the same thing: for clearly he who defines through terms that are prior and more intelligible has also framed a definition, and a better one, so that both would then be definitions of the same object. |
rearraying her dress, and drawing her clothes close about her, and suffering none to come near or be an eyewitness of her fall, besides the executioner, she courageously submitted to the stroke, and wanted nobody to look after her or wind her up after she |
thus great are the heavenly blessings which the friendship of a lover will confer upon you, my youth. |
stages themselves, if you reckon them properly, are so many losses. |
worthless and idle use, these fruitless efforts will never be abandoned for good. |
a man who never ventured one impious word or deed against the gods we worship, but whose whole language concerning them, and his every act, closely coincided, word for word, and deed for deed, with all we deem distinctive of devoutest piety. |
but the foundation for this kind of idealism we have already destroyed in the transcendental sthetic. |
proposition, not demonstrable as such, but which is an inseparable result of an unconditional a priori practical law. |
in the day he was thus carried to the forts, garrisons, and camps, one servant sitting with him, who used to write down what he dictated as he went, and a soldier attending behind with his sword drawn. |
till with their own hands they have first killed another in battle. for me, who have no other title left me to these things but by the ears, 'tis sufficient if, according to the privilege of my age, they retain me for one of their counsel. |
athenian: now, which would be the better judge--one who destroyed the bad and appointed the good to govern themselves; or one who, while allowing the good to govern, let the bad live, and made them voluntarily submit? |
you have heard me speak at sundry times and in divers places of an oracle or sign which comes to me, and is the divinity which meletus ridicules in the indictment. |
thou thyself seemest to me awakened: what didst thou do? why didst thou turn round? why didst thou get converted? speak, thou nondescript!" |
his profession required it of him, he elevated to a place far above all the rest, as the greatest of the great. they were penn, howard, and mrs. fry. every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this. |
what then, it may be asked, is, in hegel's view, the indispensable minimum essential to a state? and the answer will be, organised strength,-a central and united force. |
and this is what the telamon declares, "i, when my son was born," etc.; and thus theseus, "i on my future misery did dwell;" and anaxagoras, "i knew my son was mortal." |
'and is this a sort of thing which is of the nature of the holy, or of the nature of the unholy?' i should be angry at his putting such a question, and should say, 'peace, man; nothing can be holy if holiness is not holy.' what would you say? |
universal humanity. still-and this is perhaps for each time always the more important-the national unity-not indeed as a multitude, nor as a majority-is the supreme real appearance of the eternal and absolute. |
and he replied: "o king, i am the son of gordias, the son of midas, and i am called adrastos; and i slew my own brother against my will, and therefore am i here, having been driven forth by my father and deprived of all that i had." |
encompassed by their enemies. themistocles, knowing the generosity of aristides, and much struck by his visit at that time, imparted to him all that he had transacted by sicinnus, and entreated him, that, as he would be more readily believed among the |
engonasis do call, because he's borne one hundred seventy nine about with bended knee. near him is placed the crown with a refulgent lustre graced. |
but, before i go further, i should like here to explain at greater length prop. x of this part, in order that we may clearly understand how one idea is contrary to another. in the note to two. xvii. |
then every conspicuous ornament will be removed, even pearls; even curling-irons will be put away; and all medicaments of paint and chalk, all artificial red and white, will be discarded; only elegance and neatness will remain. |
despoil and enslave and pillage, or in any way at all to wrong me and mine, is far more disgraceful and evil to the doer of the wrong than to me who am the sufferer. |
but if some one who would rather not admit the immortality of the soul boldly denies this, and says that the dying do really become more evil and unrighteous, then, if the speaker is right, i suppose that injustice, like disease, must be assumed to be |
emotions, we shall still regard the first--named object with love or hate. |
the snub-nosed youth is said to have a winning grace; the beak of another has a royal look; the featureless are faultless; the dark are manly, the fair angels; the sickly have a new term of endearment invented expressly for them, which is 'honey-pale.' |
socrates: o callicles, if there were not some community of feelings among mankind, however varying in different persons-i mean to say, if every man's feelings were peculiar to himself and were not shared by the rest of his species-i do not see how we |
she, partly as a sort of well-turned compliment to alexander, partly out of sport, as the drinking went on, at last was carried so far as to utter a saying, not misbecoming her native country's character, though somewhat too lofty for her own condition. |
xenophon, with some ardour, retorted: "you know, sirs, i have not been in the habit hitherto of introducing you to danger which you might avoid. it is not your reputation for courage surely that is at stake, but your fourteen safe return home. |
the question which is the more desirable, or the better, of two or more things, should be examined upon the following lines: only first of all it must be clearly laid down that the inquiry we are making concerns not things that are widely divergent and |
whole country ought never to shut himself up but in case of such last extremity that the only place he has left is in concern, and that the only hope he has left is in the defence of that city; otherwise he ought to keep himself always at liberty, that he |
pisistratus, it is stated, was similarly attached to one charmus; he it was who dedicated the figure of love in the academy, where the runners in the sacred torch-race light their torches. |
one hundred fifty seven i.e. three hundred,zero. |
appeared to me to be a lofty profession; and i was always agitating myself with the consideration of questions such as these:--is the growth of animals the result of some decay which the hot and cold principle contracts, as some have said? |
forty three. these were things which tended to peace for the ionians; but at the beginning of the spring, the other commanders having all been removed by the king, mardonios the son of gobryas came down to the sea, bringing with him a very large land-army |
there is indeed in st. paul (titus three.ten.) a text that seemeth to be to the contrary. "a man that is an haeretique, after the first and second admonition, reject." |
even for long. we ought frequently to remind ourselves that we must love the things of this life as we would what is shortly to leave us, or indeed in the very act of leaving us. |
for to other things answer faculties productive of them, but to accidental results there corresponds no determinate art nor faculty; for of things which are or come to be by accident, the cause also is accidental. |
and this, too, is what marcus lepidus ought to take care of,--not to appear to act in any respect with more arrogance than suits his character. |
you are still young-you might be the youngest of my own children-still you have spoken wisely and have counselled the chief of the achaeans not without discretion; nevertheless i am older than you and i will tell you everything; therefore let no man, not |
mixing all the flesh together they set forth a banquet. |
scurrilous language. brutus, having his mind taken up with other affairs, said nothing to their accusation; but the judgment of messala corvinus was, that they should be whipped publicly upon a stage, and so sent naked to the captains of the enemy, to |
her original purity; and then her beauty will be revealed, and justice and injustice and all the things which we have described will be manifested more clearly. |
and, according to my host's tale in ariosto, be as handsome a man and as worthy a gentleman as you will, do not conclude too much upon your mistress's inviolable chastity for having been repulsed; you do not know but she may have a better stomach to your |
when he has nothing left, must not his desires, crowding in the nest like young ravens, be crying aloud for food; and he, goaded on by them, and especially by love himself, who is in a manner the captain of them, is in a frenzy, and would fain discover |
are a very poor testimony of our worth and parts. |
something of grace and felicity. and so, in spite of great and frequent hurt that he had done the city, he was repeatedly appointed to office and command; while coriolanus stood in vain for a place which his great services had made his due. |
pusillanimity-- desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; and fear of things that are but of little hindrance, pusillanimity. |
six. wherefore, i will embrace every consideration in my opinion which i am now going to deliver, a course to which you, i feel sure, have no objection, in order that authority may be conferred by us on admirable generals, and that hope of reward may be |
over as briefly as possible, so that it shall appear to be only a refreshing of the recollection of the hearers, not a repetition of the speech. |
let custom from the very childhood have joined figure and shape to the idea of god, and what absurdities will that mind be liable to about the deity? |
it is rightly said that an empty space plays the chief part in the production of hearing, for what people mean by 'the vacuum' is the air, which is what causes hearing, when that air is set in movement as one continuous mass; but owing to its friability |
courted than commanded by their general." it is said, this speech so stopped the soldiers' mouths, and altered their minds, that all the tribes decreed a triumph for aemilius; which was performed after this manner. |
suffering the continual drain of lives and treasure in which they were inferior, would in the end come to nothing. |
meno: i certainly thought just now that we were right. |
prudence and wisdom of those, whose hands it is in, to be managed for the public good: for the laws that concern subjects one amongst another, being to direct their actions, may well enough precede them. |
soc. it seems you use the term "well-proportioned" not in an absolute sense, but in reference to the wearer, just as you might describe a shield as well proportioned to the individual it suits; and so of a military cloak, and so of the rest of things, in |
a restriction, e.g. by some given person, by the speaker or by some one else. the manner, however, of its acceptance or rejection, whatever it be, makes no difference: for the right way to answer, i.e. |
oh, the misery of all bestowers! oh, the darkening of my sun! oh, the craving to crave! oh, the violent hunger in satiety! |
this narrative is in the memoirs of brutus written by bibulus, porcia's son. |
the other element of friendship is tenderness. |
then for ever unharmed. if, however, she drops her wings and falls to the earth, then she takes the form of man, and the soul which has seen most of the truth passes into a philosopher or lover; that which has seen truth in the second degree, into a king |
thus hath been opened thee this truth of truths, the mystery more hid than any secret mystery. meditate! and--as thou wilt--then act! |
accounted hostile force, but where it leaves not the remedy of such an appeal; and it is such force alone, that puts him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it lawful to resist him. |
such teachers as these would thus get themselves virtuous successors, and transmit from age to age, to generations to come, the experience and talents of rulers, the courage and virtue of citizens, and common emulation in all to live and die for their |
there is something ridiculous in the expression 'master of himself;' for the master is also the servant and the servant the master; and in all these modes of speaking the same person is denoted. |
would that i had yielded to my young son rather than he to his aged father! and therefore i pray the more earnestly that the innocent may not pay the penalty of my wickedness. |
from crete he sailed to asia, with design, as is said, to examine the difference betwixt the manners and rules of life of the cretans, which were very sober and temperate, and those of the ionians, a people of sumptuous and delicate habits, and so to form |
gallus asinius argued on the other side. "with the growth of the empire private wealth too," he said, "had increased, and there was nothing new in this, but it accorded with the fashions of the earliest antiquity. |
but if they, or any other, relate any such stories of their own knowledge, they shall not thereby confirm the more such vain reports; but discover their own infirmity, or fraud. |
numbers to whom their power extends, but not in their constitution: so that with them a herile government is one composed of a very few, a domestic of more, a civil and a regal of still more, as if there was no difference between a large family and a |
possessors of nature. and this is a result to be desired, not only in order to the invention of an infinity of arts, by which we might be enabled to enjoy without any trouble the fruits of the earth, and all its comforts, but also and especially for the |
the celebrated locke, for want of due reflection on these points, and because he met with pure conceptions of the understanding in experience, sought also to deduce them from experience, and yet proceeded so inconsequently as to attempt, with their aid, |
and the chief officers of the wardens of the country shall superintend all these matters, and see how many of them, and which class of them, each place requires; and fix them where they are likely to be least troublesome, and most useful to the |
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