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but these encounters, though they raised the victor's spirits, did not thoroughly dishearten the unsuccessful; for there was no set battle, or regular fighting, but mere incursions on advantage, in which, according to occasion, they charged, retired |
yet none of these rectangles can be said to exist, except in so far as the circle exists; nor can the idea of any of these rectangles be said to exist, except in so far as they are comprehended in the idea of the circle. |
when he was just midway across, the little door opened once more, and a gaudily-dressed fellow like a buffoon sprang out, and went rapidly after the first one. |
the other species want a name in our language, and in most others; i suppose, because it was not requisite for any, but philosophical purposes, to rank them under a general term or appellation. |
presence. so having found them yet surviving they brought them into the presence of the king; and upon that xerxes, being informed for what purpose they had come, commanded the spearmen to lead them round and to show them the whole army both foot and |
"that our intention was not hostile is proved by our behaviour. |
that they may improve their education by taking part in the festivals of the gods, and with their help. i should like to know whether a common saying is in our opinion true to nature or not. |
nouns and verbs, provided nothing is added, are like thoughts without combination or separation; 'man' and 'white', as isolated terms, are not yet either true or false. in proof of this, consider the word 'goat-stag.' |
they may not prevent the growth of the body: and it is no small proof that they have this effect, that amongst the olympic candidates we can scarce find two or three who have gained a victory both when boys and men: because the necessary exercises they |
and indeed all the rest of his deportment was agreeable to this first compliment; whenever pompey came into his presence, he paid some sort of respect to him, either in rising and being uncovered, or the like, which he was rarely seen to do to anyone |
our fathers with these very adversaries, which it is said we shall now leave behind us when we sail, and the mede as their enemy as well, were able to win the empire, depending solely on their superiority at sea. |
tsze-kung said, 'what i do not wish men to do to me, i also wish not to do to men.' the master said, 'ts'ze, you have not attained to that.' chap. twelve. |
one hundred seventeen. if a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil. |
five hundred two. a distinction has thus emerged between the law (right) and the subjective will. |
these two propositions are far from being the same, i have found that such an object has always been attended with such an effect , and i foresee, that other objects, which are, in appearance, similar, will be attended with similar effects . |
i read in the gulistan, or flower garden, of sheik sadi of shiraz, that "they asked a wise man, saying; of the many celebrated trees which the most high god has created lofty and umbrageous, they call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears |
we char crooked spearshafts to straighten them, and force them by driving in wedges, not in order to break them, but to take the bends out of them; and, in like manner, by applying pain to the body or mind we correct dispositions which have been rendered |
quiet and free from disturbing thoughts; yet i suffer myself, withal, by fits to be surprised with the stings of those unpleasing imaginations that assault me, whilst i am arming myself to drive them away, or at least to wrestle with them. |
hippias said: i think, socrates, that you have given a very good explanation of the poem; but i have also an excellent interpretation of my own which i will propound to you, if you will allow me. |
thus, the taking from another what is his, without his knowledge or allowance, is properly called stealing: but that name, being commonly understood to signify also the moral gravity of the action, and to denote its contrariety to the law, men are apt to |
then antinous said, "what god can have sent such a pestilence to plague us during our dinner? |
whole continents, africa and the east, have never had this idea, and are without it still. the greeks and romans, plato and aristotle, even the stoics, did not have it. on the contrary, they saw that it is only by birth (as e.g. |
obedience of the subject to the command or suggestions of the operator. |
i will furnish you with guides chosen from the oldest experts of the country, and i will myself follow with the cavalry in the rear; it will not take me long, if need be, to present myself at the front." |
the shadows. suppose now that you suddenly turn them round and make them look with pain and grief to themselves at the real images; will they believe them to be real? |
polycritus the mendaean (the former being a dancing-master, the latter a physician), or, in the absence of them both, by ctesias; who is said to have taken conon's letter, and foisted into the contents of it a request; that the king would also be pleased |
and yet the magnanimity and constancy of the city was such, that it would not redeem the captives from hannibal, though it might have done so for a small ransom; a decree of the senate forbade it, and chose rather to leave them to be killed by the enemy, |
there is no mention of the idea of good in the timaeus, nor of the divine creator of the world in the republic; and we are naturally led to ask in what relation they stand to one another. is god above or below the idea of good? |
others are dependent; that is to say, subordinate to some soveraign power, to which every one, as also their representative is subject. |
the third, whom the greeks often call by her father's name, is the daughter of upis two hundred seventy and glauce. there are many also of the dionysi. the first was the son of jupiter and proserpine. |
"audit iter, numeratque dies, spatioque viarum metitur vitam; torquetur peste futura." |
only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood. |
socrates looked at him and said: i return your good wishes, and will do as you bid. |
but the province of metaphysics is entirely confined to the latter kind of knowledge, and it is certainly a bad index of common sense to appeal to it as a witness, for it cannot here form any opinion whatever, and men look down upon it with contempt until |
if your lordship think fit that, by your encouragement, this should appear in the world, i hope it may be a reason, some time or other, to lead your lordship further; and you will allow me to say, that you here give the world an earnest of something that, |
let it not, because a is laid down as a single term, be supposed that it is possible, when a single fact is given, that something should necessarily result. for that is not possible. |
numerous enemies. the spartans had two companies, (the company consisting, as ephorus states, of five hundred; callisthenes says seven hundred; others, as polybius, nine hundred) and their leaders, gorgoleon and theopompus, confident of success, advanced |
but, in any case, let us realize that the prometheus is not a human play: with the possible exception of io, every character in it is an immortal being. it is not as a vaunt, but as a fact, that prometheus declares, as against zeus (l. |
when you have considered all these things completely, then, if you think proper, approach to philosophy, if you would gain in exchange for these things freedom from perturbations, liberty, tranquillity. |
"thus, then, did we sit and hold sad talk with one another, i on the one side of the trench with my sword held over the blood, and the ghost of my comrade saying all this to me from the other side. |
there are attributes peculiar to the animal qua female or qua male (yet there is no 'female' nor 'male' separate from animals); so that there are also attributes which belong to things merely as lengths or as planes. |
but in compound words a threefold change can be made, not of words, but only of order, so that when a thing has once been said plainly, as nature itself prompts, the order may be inverted, and the expression may be repeated, turned upside down, as it |
too critically how or why it is. insomuch that having loved, beyond everything, the late one thousand. |
when the principles of delivery have been worked out, they will produce the same effect as on the stage. but only very slight attempts to deal with them have been made and by a few people, as by thrasymachus in his 'appeals to pity'. |
for though the action be against the law of nature, as being contrary to equitie, (as was the killing of uriah, by david;) yet it was not an injurie to uriah; but to god. |
they guide their lives by reasoning more than by moral feeling; reasoning being directed to utility and moral feeling to moral goodness. if they wrong others, they mean to injure them, not to insult them. |
i should like to explain that the presence of a man and a dog in one illustration is accidental, and was not observed by me till i developed the negative. |
counselling it. thirdly, in hearing every man apart, one may examine (when there is need) the truth, or probability of his reasons, and of the grounds of the advise he gives, by frequent interruptions, and objections; which cannot be done in an assembly, |
distemper." --who died of joy; and of thalna, who died in corsica, reading news of the honours the roman senate had decreed in his favour, we have, moreover, one in our time, of pope leo ten., who upon news of the taking of milan, a thing he had so |
but nothing of moment was done by them, for though they skirmished with the roman horse at a distance, they were not able to stand when the foot came up to them; but being broken, and flying on both sides, drew the horse in pursuit after them. |
he also instituted the games, in emulation of hercules, being ambitious that as the greeks, by that hero's appointment, celebrated the olympian games to the honor of jupiter, so, by his institution, they should celebrate the isthmian to the honor of |
lesser merit is the greater liveliness of socrates, which hurries him into verse and relieves the monotony of the style. |
nor fails the goddess to foment the rage with lying wonders, and a false presage; but adds a sign, which, present to their eyes, inspires new courage, and a glad surprise. |
glorious. a tyranny also is exposed to the same destruction as all other states are, from too powerful neighbours: for it is evident, that an opposition of principles will make them desirous of subverting it; and what they desire, all who can, do: and |
i own that this dispute has been so much canvassed on all hands, and has led philosophers into such a labyrinth of obscure sophistry, that it is no wonder, if a sensible reader indulge his ease so far as to turn a deaf ear to the proposal of such a |
therefore, with reference to him ctesiphon proposed a decree, without his having given in any accounts, that he should be presented with a golden crown, and that that presentation should take place in the theatre, the people being summoned for the |
source of pain. yet all these faults are softened both by good character and good education. illustrations of this may be found in real life, as also on the stage in the case of the brothers in the adeiphi . |
governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. |
reason to repent the meddling with the matter. the same has since happened to several others, even down to our own times: the french, my contemporaries, know it well enough. all great mutations shake and disorder a state. |
divest ourselves of it as to throw it completely off, we cannot be free from misery. and it is clear that there must be grief where anything has the appearance of a present sore and oppressing evil. |
the general account, however, prevails, that those spoils only are opima, which the general first takes in set battle, and takes from the enemy's chief captain whom he has slain with his own hand. but of this enough. |
the get hold themselves to be immortal, and that their death is nothing but a journey to their god zamolxis. every five years they dispatch some one among them to him, to entreat of him such necessaries as they stand in need of. |
after this necessary corrective, an objection rises from an unpardonable and almost intentional misconception, as if my doctrine turned all the things of the world of sense into mere illusion. |
it is not that it could not hurt men, but neither does the ruling sage hurt them. |
they threw their spears as he bade them, but minerva made them all of no effect. |
nevertheless, a certain officer serving under his banner, who happened to be a fellow-townsman, ventured to appropriate a bamboo hat belonging to one of the people, in order to wear it over his regulation helmet as a protection against the rain. |
doing nothing, but had urged them always not to fight a battle: and for himself he acted as follows, not being pleased with the things which were being done by mardonios.-the men of whom artabazos was commander (and he had with him no small force but one |
men. he now abides at the ships in anger with agamemnon shepherd of his people, but there are many of us who are well able to face you; therefore begin the fight." |
but you must not wonder if i speak any how as things come into my mind; for the fluent and orderly enumeration of all your singularities is not a task which is easy to a man in my condition. |
whilst the rest of the world marched on in rank and did whatever fighting had to be done, they preferred to leave the ranks, and rush forward to loot and enrich themselves at our expense. |
so is 'a country pays a heavy reckoning in being condemned by the judgement of mankind', for a reckoning is damage deservedly incurred. |
or if he does, he will be punished;-his share will exceed that of some, and be less than that of others, and if he be the weakest of all, he being the best of all will have the smallest share of all, callicles:-am i not right, my friend? |
as, for instance, if he should say that he is unable to form any clear conceptions, or that he can desire and do nothing but what is wicked and base, c. |
one hundred twenty three senibus autem labores corporis minuendi, exercitationes animi etiam augendae videntur; danda vero opera, ut et amicos et iuventutem et maxime rem publicam consilio et prudentia quam plurimum adiuvent. |
so petulance is derived from asking ( petendo ); wantonness ( procacitas ) from procando , that is, from demanding. |
"all my hope is in myself."--terence, adelph., iii. five, nine. |
so that the thing fell out to him just as the god had foreshown in a sacrifice. |
but again they help in no wise either towards the knowledge of the other things (for they are not even the substance of these, else they would have been in them), or towards their being, if they are not in the particulars which share in them; though if |
there goes a story that he once invited a great number of citizens to an entertainment, at which the dishes in which the meat was served were very homely and plain, and the repast itself poor and ordinary fare; the guests seated, he began to tell them |
a slippery trick. but this way is no less difficult to me than the other; i must have three hours to learn three verses. |
but yet their trust towards them, hath rather been as to good spials, and good whisperers, than good magistrates and officers. and much like is the reason of deformed persons. |
profess them: thus he who builds a house is not the only judge of it, for the master of the family who inhabits it is a better; thus also a steersman is a better judge of a tiller than he who made it; and he who gives an entertainment than the cook. |
one will show later on how the external strength of a great people two may be combined with the convenient polity and good order of a small state. |
affectionately attached to the repose of his country, an enemy to changes and innovations, he would have preferred to employ what means he had towards their discouragement and suppression, than in promoting their success." |
reason, as the faculty of principles, determines the interest of all the powers of the mind and is determined by its own. |
the primary syllogisms, which have three terms and proceed by means of one middle, are of this nature. |
on which account, some people prefixed a to his name. fifty but as a writer, he was very unequal to his reputation. |
highways which wind among mountains, by being much frequented, become gradually so smooth and commodious, that it is much better to follow them than to seek a straighter path by climbing over the tops of rocks and descending to the bottoms of precipices. |
incomprehensible power? and that he believed that the weak holds we are able to take were capable, or the force of our understanding sufficient, to participate of beatitude or eternal pains? |
the astonishing magnificence of the cities of cusco and mexico, and, amongst many other things, the garden of the king, where all the trees, fruits, and plants, according to the order and stature they have in a garden, were excellently formed in gold; as, |
that is quite true, he said; but to what are you alluding? |
this discourse made cleomenes for the present to be looked upon as a man of great influence and assured fidelity; but afterwards, ptolemy's weakness increasing his fear, and he, as it usually happens, where there is no judgment and wisdom, placing his |
one hundred for panaetius was a stoic, and the stoics did not admit that there were any degrees of right or wrong. |
myself i then perused, and limb by limb surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran with supple joints, as lively vigour led: but who i was, or where, or from what cause, knew not; to speak i tried, and forthwith spake; my tongue obeyed, and readily |
nineteen) he biddeth them to teach it their children, by discoursing of it both at home, and upon the way; at going to bed, and at rising from bed; and to write it upon the posts, and dores of their houses; and (deut. thirty one. |
i am delighted, thrasymachus, to see you not only nodding assent and dissent, but making answers which are quite excellent. |
still the mediation of the notion has the external form of transition , and the science of nature presents itself as the course of necessity, so that it is only in the one extreme that the liberty of the notion is explicit as a self-amalgamation. |
be shown. and therefore how far the consciousness of past actions is annexed to any individual agent, so that another cannot possibly have it, will be hard for us to determine, till we know what kind of action it is that cannot be done without a reflex |
soveraigne power not hurtfull as the want of it, and the hurt proceeds for the greatest part from not submitting readily, to a lesse |
passion for power: but who would call it passion, when the height longeth to stoop for power! verily, nothing sick or diseased is there in such longing and descending! |
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