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we are the people of agamemnon, son of atreus, who has won infinite renown throughout the whole world, by sacking so great a city and killing so many people. |
he took up his position in the hippodrome, where antony made a fierce sally upon him, routed the horse, and beat them back into their trenches, and so returned with great satisfaction to the palace, where, meeting cleopatra, armed as he was, he kissed |
he is the inspired prophet or teacher who can never die, the only one in whom the outward form adequately represents the fair soul within; in whom the thoughts of all who went before him are reflected and of all who come after him are partly anticipated. |
the use of words, is to register to our selves, and make manifest to others the thoughts and conceptions of our minds. |
such a rivalry is more characteristic of an imitator than of an original writer. the (so-called) symposium of xenophon may therefore have no more title to be regarded as genuine than the confessedly spurious apology. |
we have nothing that excels it in reputation; it has the first place in the commerce of men; it presents itself in the front; seduces and prepossesses our judgments with great authority and wonderful impression. |
it is said that denter romulius was appointed by romulus, then numa marcius by tullus hostilius, and spurius lucretius by tarquinius superbus. afterwards, the consuls made the appointment. |
and let a man not forget to pay the yearly tribute of respect to the dead, honouring them chiefly by omitting nothing that conduces to a perpetual remembrance of them, and giving a reasonable portion of his fortune to the dead. |
he cut the boar's throat as he spoke, whereon talthybius whirled it round his head, and flung it into the wide sea to feed the fishes. then achilles also rose and said to the argives, "father jove, of a truth you blind men's eyes and bane them. |
wang hsi thinks that this means not using the same stratagem twice. |
prisoner. now miltiades had come to be a friend twenty two of croesus the lydian; and croesus accordingly, being informed of this event, sent and commanded the people of lampsacos to let miltiades go; otherwise he threatened to destroy them utterly like a |
three. three hundred thirty two then appeared the sages of philosophy , whose minds took a higher flight, and who were able to conceive and to execute designs worthy of the gifts of the gods. |
soc. well, and what do you make of the fact that where we are powerless to take advantageous forethought for our future, at this stage they themselves lend us their co-operation, imparting to the inquirer through divination knowledge of events about to |
sixty nine. again, let us examine what is meant by occasion. |
fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. for many strange prodigies and apparitions are said to have been observed shortly before the event. |
to these i have lately added two very general reasons of doubt ; the first was, that while i was awake , i could not believe my self to perceive any thing, which i could not think my self sometimes to perceive, tho i were a sleep ; and seeing i cannot |
moreover, testimony seems to be borne to these positions both privately by individuals, and by law-givers too, in that they chastise and punish those who do wrong (unless they do so on compulsion, or by reason of ignorance which is not self-caused), while |
citizen owes to himself (compare republic). |
merchants and ships upon the seas, but also to lay waste the islands and seaport towns. so that now there embarked with these pirates men of wealth and noble birth and superior abilities, as if it had been a natural occupation to gain distinction in. |
"slight your mistress; she will to-day come who denied you yesterday.--"propertius, ii. fourteen, nineteen. |
wits cannot possibly arrive, nor conceive their natural conduct, we lend them material, heavy, and substantial springs of our own by which to move:-- |
scarcely however was the voluntary beggar gone in haste, and zarathustra again alone, when he heard behind him a new voice which called out: "stay! zarathustra! do wait! it is myself, forsooth, o zarathustra, myself, thy shadow!" |
anon he sang how the sons of the achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade. |
for the nonrational potencies are all productive of one effect each, but the rational produce contrary effects, so that if they produced their effects necessarily they would produce contrary effects at the same time; but this is impossible. |
he slew antiochus himself, took many men and ships, and erected a trophy. |
graptus, one of the emperor's freedmen, whose age and experience had made him thoroughly acquainted with the imperial household from the time of tiberius, quickened these apprehensions by the following falsehood. |
neither endure the sight nor the crowing of a cock. i will not deny, but that there may, peradventure, be some occult cause and natural aversion in these cases; but, in my opinion, a man might conquer it, if he took it in time. |
uncover'd but by heav'n, there stood in view an altar; near the hearth a laurel grew, dodder'd with age, whose boughs encompass round the household gods, and shade the holy ground. |
but even hume did not make his empiricism so universal as to include mathematics. |
might be sometimes wanting to those advantages which sertorius by his quickness and dexterity would wrest out of his hands. |
he killed coeranus, alastor, chromius, alcandrus, halius, noemon, and prytanis, and would have slain yet more, had not great hector marked him, and sped to the front of the fight clad in his suit of mail, filling the danaans with terror. |
"egregium sanctumque virum si cerno, bimembri hoc monstrum puero, et miranti jam sub aratro piscibus inventis, et foetae comparo mulae." |
pure conception of external intuition can exist; for example, "be tween two points only one straight line is possible," "two straight lines cannot enclose a space," etc. these are the axioms which properly relate only to quantities (quanta) as such. |
of ignorance, or by chance. for those things which have been done in consequence of some motion or agitation of the mind, without any positive intention, have, in legal proceedings, no defence if they are impeached, though they may have an excuse if |
this sole end of another happily immortal life is that which really merits that we should abandon the pleasures and conveniences of this; and he who can really and constantly inflame his soul with the ardour of this vivid faith and hope, erects for |
still of increasing the number, be it already as great as it will. |
comets, out of question, have likewise power and effect, over the gross and mass of things; but they are rather gazed upon, and waited upon in their journey, than wisely observed in their effects; specially in, their respective effects; that is, what kind |
"ut homo hominem, non iratus, non timens, tantum spectaturus, occidat." |
which they took from another. thus fate has decreed that nothing should ever enjoy an uninterrupted course of good fortune. |
this it appears was that which they desired to guard against in good time one hundred eleven when they changed their counsel, one hundred twelve reflecting on this especially besides other things, namely that they had a country which, it appears, is easy |
"the very custom of assenting seems to be dangerous and slippery."--cicero, acad., ii. twenty one. |
which lay in such heaps as not only stopped, but almost covered the horses, and made them rear and grow so unruly, that the frighted charioteer could govern them no longer, in this extremity was glad to quit his chariot and his arms, and mounting, it is |
quod si acciderit (potest autem accidere), facienda morum institutorumque mutatio est. |
'yes, that i know,' said i, 'and have answered that it is from god.' |
formerly rich or highly distinguished noble families often sank into ruin from a passion for splendour. |
(for empiricism is based on a necessity felt, rationalism on a necessity seen). and thus universal empiricism reveals itself as absolute scepticism. |
title of "most good" precedes that of "most great." this, then, is he whom ennius means in the following passage, before quoted-- |
if, however, any dispute arises about what is proper and for the interest of either party, they shall choose ten of the guardians of the law and abide by their permission and appointment. |
and further, who conceiveth the full depth of the modesty of the vain man! i am favourable to him, and sympathetic on account of his modesty. |
it is true that similar confusion and uncertainty, and in some cases similar discordance, exist respecting the first principles of all the sciences, not excepting that which is deemed the most certain of them, mathematics; without much impairing, |
he saw this unequal combat from afar,-for the blacks were nearly twice the size of the red,-he drew near with rapid pace till he stood on his guard within half an inch of the combatants; then, watching his opportunity, he sprang upon the black warrior, |
for it is altogether as intelligible to say that a body is extended without parts, as that anything thinks without being conscious of it, or perceiving that it does so. |
the great art of novel writing, that peculiar creation of our own and the last century, which, together with the sister art of review writing, threatens to absorb all literature, has even less of seriousness in her composition. |
to form such a bond, there must be intermediate orders, and princes, personages and nobility to compose them. but no such things suit a small state, to which all class differences mean ruin. |
after a while he divides his time impartially between them; and perhaps, when he gets older and the violence of passion has abated, he restores some of the exiles and lives in a sort of equilibrium, indulging first one pleasure and then another; and if |
"scilicet et fluvius qui non est maximus, ei'st qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit." |
two. but before punishment can be inflicted at all, the legislator must determine the nature of the voluntary and involuntary. |
man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby hath he overcome every animal. with sound of triumph hath he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain. |
an animal if an animal is produced; but it is not necessary that a quality or quantity should pre-exist otherwise than potentially. |
in fact, the opportunity they enjoy to-day of taking vengeance on me for any treatment which i put upon them wrongfully, is derived from their salvation then; whereas, if they had fallen into the enemy's hands, let them ask themselves for what outrage, |
the athenians, in the meantime, were miserably afflicted at their loss of empire, but when they were deprived of liberty also, and lysander set up thirty despotic rulers in the city, in their ruin now they began to turn to those thoughts which, while |
xxviii.) as we have shown in the foregoing proposition, from this common property of particular things, we have only a very inadequate knowledge of the duration of our body; we must draw a similar conclusion with regard to the duration of particular |
he, therefore, to avoid this fault, got six hundred of the equestrian order about him as his guard, whom he named anti-senators; and with these confederates he set upon the consuls, whilst they were at the assembly, and took the son of one of them, who |
thus natural inequality unfolds itself insensibly with that of combination, and the difference between men, developed by their different circumstances, becomes more sensible and permanent in its effects, and begins to have an influence, in the same |
term; so that, since the former knows, he that opines also has knowledge. |
they had taken one of these towns, when the lacedaemonians under nicomedes, son of cleombrotus, commanding for king pleistoanax, son of pausanias, who was still a minor, came to the aid of the dorians with fifteen hundred heavy infantry of their own, and |
decemvirs of the highest nobility, without the counterbalancing authority of the tribunes of the people, without the sanction of any other magistracies, and without appeal to the people in the case of a sentence of death or scourging. |
i shall therefore permit the body of mighty hector to be stolen; and yet this may hardly be without achilles coming to know it, for his mother keeps night and day beside him. |
but the senate persuaded fannius, the consul, to command all persons who were not born romans, to depart the city. a new and unusual proclamation was thereupon made, prohibiting any of the allies or confederates to appear at rome during that time. |
of this oppression there passed ten years while the causeway was made by which they drew the stones, which causeway they built, and it is a work not much less, as it appears to me, than the pyramid; for the length of it is five furlongs one hundred five |
clearly then from what has been said a syllogism results or not from similar relations of the terms whether we are dealing with simple existence or necessity, with this exception, that if the negative premiss is assertoric the conclusion is problematic, |
be borrowed, or be absent, yet because in lending, he voteth the borrowing, he contradicteth his former vote, and is obliged by the later, and becomes both borrower and lender, and consequently cannot demand payment from any particular man, but from the |
(b) i design to yoke the hellespont with a bridge, and to march an army through europe against hellas, in order that i may take vengeance on the athenians for all the things which they have done both to the persians and to my father. |
yet, however widely human sovereignty be extended, there must still be more peoples left, over whom each several king holds no sway. |
and some burst forth again on the opposite side, and some on the same side, and some wind round the earth with one or many folds like the coils of a serpent, and descend as far as they can, but always return and fall into the chasm. |
we have one other pond just like this, white pond, in nine acre corner, about two and a half miles westerly; but, though i am acquainted with most of the ponds within a dozen miles of this centre i do not know a third of this pure and well-like character. |
one hundred eighteen nam quod one hundred twelve herculem prodicus one hundred thirteen dicit, ut est apud xenophontem, cum primum pubesceret, quod tempus a natura ad deligendum, quam quisque viam vivendi sit ingressurus, datum est, exisse in solitudinem |
theaetetus: clearly not, socrates; and knowledge has now been most distinctly proved to be different from perception. |
my sword is sheathed, nay, fixed in its sheath: i am sparing of the blood even of the lowest of my subjects: a man who has nothing else to recommend him, will nevertheless find favour in my eyes because he is a man. |
achaeans should begin to suspect who he was. |
a way of speaking which, whoever admits, must allow it possible for the same man to be two distinct persons, as any two that have lived in different ages without the knowledge of one another's thoughts. |
particularly. i will accordingly now relate the differences that arose after the ten years' war, the breach of the treaty, and the hostilities that followed. |
for if a thing be impossible there is no use in deliberating about it, however desirable it may be; and if a thing be necessary, (when i say necessary, i mean such that without it we cannot be safe or free), then that must be preferred to everything else |
proceed therefore, and inquire further, whether it may not be that those things also which being mentioned upon the stage were merrily, and with great applause of the multitude, scoffed at with this jest, that they that possessed them had not in all the |
forty seven. this they have found out, seeing that their land is suitable to it and at the same time the rivers are their allies: for first this land is plain land and is grassy and well watered, and then there are rivers flowing through it not much less |
uncapable of that charge. and so lunatics and ideots are never set free from the government of their parents; |
but deeming it servile to be under others, he resolved, with the help of some citizens of fermo, who preferred servitude to the liberty of their country, and with the favour of the vitellis, to occupy fermo; he therefore wrote to giovanni fogliani, how, |
anything that does now exist: and it is no more than to think, that, had the sun shone then on the dial, and moved after the same rate it doth now, the shadow on the dial would have passed from one hour-line to another whilst that flame of the candle |
the one, the self-proving, the good which is the higher sphere of dialectic, is the perfect truth to which all things ascend, and in which they finally repose. |
which had come on by sepias, and now was captured sailing in towards artemision with the one which had escaped. |
thirdly, pompey's transgressions of right and justice in his political life were occasioned chiefly by his relations with other people, and most of his errors had some affinity, as well as himself, to caesar and scipio, his fathers-in-law. |
but no trace of acquaintance with zoroaster is found elsewhere in plato's writings, and there is no reason for giving him the name of er the pamphylian. |
to make their ineptitude clear to the public. the people is far less often mistaken in its choice than the prince; and a man of real worth among the king's ministers is almost as rare as a fool at the head of a republican government. |
girdles: and this alone his mother contrived for skythes. thirteen such is the story told by the hellenes who dwell about the pontus. |
the fourth prize was two talents of gold, and the fifth a two-handled urn as yet unsoiled by smoke. then he stood up and spoke among the argives saying- |
(sixteen) or, "on the topic of the just i have something to say at present which," etc. |
to let the old men abide in peace at home." so to a man they gave in their adhesion in that quarter of the country. |
some think that a tyrannic government over those near us is the greatest injustice; but that a political one is not unjust: but that still is a restraint on the pleasures and tranquillity of life. |
whatsoever. but, even if we could transfer our liberty, as we do our property, there would be a great difference with regard to the children, who enjoy the father's substance only by the transmission of his right; whereas, liberty being a gift which they |
"whilst the white hair is new, whilst old age is still straight shouldered, whilst there still remains something for lachesis to spin, whilst i walk on my own legs, and need no staff to lean upon." --juvenal, iii. twenty six. |
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