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and as in animals we should commonly choose the best for breeding, and destroy the others, so there must be a selection made of the human beings whose lives are worthy to be preserved. |
next take a look at the 'idea' of the subject stated, and see, for destructive purposes, if the suggested property fails to belong to the 'idea' in question, or fails to belong to it in virtue of that character which causes it to bear the description of |
the camp, being overwhelmed by the violence of the disease, has lost his life in discharging a most important office of the republic; and as his death has been in strict correspondence to a life passed with the greatest integrity and honour, during which |
those who are wasted by thirst or hunger are in the same condition, as also are those whose frame is naturally bloodless and faints from want of generous diet. |
the idea which has been visible to an intelligent percipient in the types and laws of the natural world, now is , actually is-is in and for itself-but at first in a minimum of content, a mere point of light, or rather the dawn which has yet to expand into |
he is cast on several shores, and meets with very surprising adventures, till at length he lands on sicily, where his father anchises dies. this is the place which he was sailing from, when the tempest rose, and threw him upon the carthaginian coast. |
yet socrates was in the midst of the city, and consoled its mourning fathers, encouraged those who despaired of the republic, by his reproaches brought rich men, who feared that their wealth would be their ruin, to a tardy repentance of their avarice, and |
"let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:" art then must be true, and politics must be true, and the life of man must be true and not a seeming or sham. in all of them order has to be brought out of disorder, truth out of error and falsehood. |
the one relating to matters of fact is that in which the thing taken into consideration is what is the law according to civil precedent, and according to equity; and that is the department in which lawyers are considered by us to be especially concerned. |
we can imagine how the lands of individuals, where they were contiguous and came to be united, became the public territory, and how the right of sovereignty, extending from the subjects over the lands they held, became at once real and personal. |
note.--self--approval is in reality the highest object for which we can hope. for (as we showed in four. |
forty three.) the fault that jonathan had committed, in eating a honey-comb, contrary to the oath taken by the people. and (josh. eighteen. |
least that they should have contrary attributes surely seems quite absurd; and yet this will follow if the one be temperate and yet a coward, and the other, though brave, be a profligate; for then both will exhibit both justice and injustice: for if |
for if a man makes a mistake here, he may do himself the greatest injury by welcoming evil dispositions, and the mistake may be very difficult to discern, because the poets are artists very inferior in character to the muses themselves, who would never |
the sight of all the world, solicit the historians of their time not to forget them in their memoirs; and fortune, as if in spite, has made the vanity of those requests live upon record down to this age of ours, while she has long since consigned the |
where this communication ceases, where the formal unity disappears, and the contiguous parts belong to one another only by juxtaposition, the man is dead, or the state is dissolved. |
inconsistent with the subject under discussion, and with the imitation of things: for this is one part of an oration which almost brings the actual circumstances before our eyes, for then the sense is most easily arrived at but still the other senses |
for those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on. |
the bounty of ladies is too profuse in marriage, and dulls the point of affection and desire: to evade which inconvenience, do but observe what pains lycurgus and plato take in their laws. |
this sylla said he would do. these last words, some authors say, were spoken not by metellus, but by afidius, one of sylla's fawning companions. |
and i beleeve that scarce any thing can be more absurdly said in naturall philosophy, than that which now is called aristotles metaphysiques, nor more repugnant to government, than much of that hee hath said in his politiques; nor more ignorantly, than a |
possible to demolish what is said in two ways, by showing either that the predicate does not belong, or that it does not belong in the particular way stated, in the case of an accidental predicate the only way to demolish it is to show that it does not |
apollodorus, in his chronicles, asserts that he was a pupil of nausiphanes, and praxiphanes; but he himself does not mention this; but says in his letter to euridicus, that he had been his own instructor. |
for though they were most averse to barbarous and cruel rites, and entertained more than any nation the same pious and reverent sentiments of the gods with the greeks; yet, when this war was coming upon them, they then, from some prophecies in the sibyls' |
these having no original precedency, or right to be put in, and make the specific idea, more than others that are left out, it is plain that both these ways our ideas of substances are deficient and inadequate. |
but since we must be reaped, and we also know that we are reaped, we are vexed at it; for we neither know what we are nor have we studied what belongs to man, as those who have studied horses know what belongs to horses. |
now, the one which proceeds from contraries, is one in which from the answer given, whatever that answer may be, the contrary of the principle indicated in the question must follow. as for instance. |
besides there are other acts , which we call cogitative or thinking , as understanding , will , imagination , sense , c. |
euth. well, socrates, i think i could hold my own against all comers as an upright man. |
f. the parallelism of the physical sciences, which leads us to analyze the mind on the analogy of the body, and so to reduce mental operations to the level of bodily ones, or to confound one with the other. |
exact and elaborate, should proceed from inanimate things, is, in my judgment, a thing utterly out of possibility. |
thus spoke the stranger; but the aged prince, raising his old man's staff before his face, said, "these will tell you all you want to know;" and pointed to some boys, who with quick lashes were driving whipping tops along the street. |
twenty three. they say that there are two passions, pleasure and pain, which affect everything alive. and that the one is natural, and the other foreign to our nature; with reference to which all objects of choice and avoidance are judged of. |
three. how far the assent of the vulgar conceded.--that neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what everybody will allow. |
here adeimantus interposed and said: to these statements, socrates, no one can offer a reply; but when you talk in this way, a strange feeling passes over the minds of your hearers: they fancy that they are led astray a little at each step in the |
this opinion was hailed with great unanimity, but the senate's resolution could not be finally passed, as the consuls decided that there had been no formal motion on the subject. |
but what ignominy it is to be called away from mutina, and at the same time to be forbidden to approach the city as if he were some fatal conflagration! what an opinion is this for the senate to have of a man! what? |
when they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them. three. 'when they are anxious lest such things should be lost, there is nothing to which they will not proceed.' chap. sixteen. one. |
it is either simply divided, as in 'i have often wondered at the conveners of national gatherings and the founders of athletic contests'; or it is antithetical, where, in each of the two members, one of one pair of opposites is put along with one of |
only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind. |
"sir," said he, "these young warriors are pressing you hard, your force is spent, and age is heavy upon you, your squire is naught, and your horses are slow to move. |
with respect to the magistrates of the highest rank which it may be necessary to have in a state, the services they are bound to do the public should be expressly laid down, to prevent the common people from being desirous of accepting their employments, |
basic truths asserting that 'this is that' or that 'this inheres in that', so there are others denying that 'this is that' or that 'this inheres in that'-in fact some basic truths will affirm and some will deny being. |
a sensible legislator will rather exhort the elders to reverence the younger, and above all to take heed that no young man sees or hears one of themselves doing or saying anything disgraceful; for where old men have no shame, there young men will most |
this region and that which lies above it is called bisaltia. |
as then the tulip for her morning sup of heav'nly vintage from the soil looks up, do you devoutly do the like, till heav'n to earth invert you--like an empty cup. |
eightly, is annexed to the soveraigntie, the right of judicature; that is to say, of hearing and deciding all controversies, which may arise concerning law, either civill, or naturall, or concerning fact. |
and so even the word 'actuality' is derived from 'action', and points to the complete reality. |
'lie at the threshold of zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,' |
the lacedemonians then were in a strait; and being in a strait they sent to delphi to inquire what they should do in the matter. and the pythian prophetess bade them regard both children as their kings, but honour most the first in age. |
not allow him to approach, he fought with them at that spot in the chian land which is called the "hollows." |
would you not say that thirst is one of these essentially relative terms, having clearly a relation- |
time, as the formal condition of the manifold of the internal sense, consequently of the conjunction of all representations, contains a priori a manifold in the pure intuition. |
own house, imprisoned and killed him. justice required that the romans should have satisfaction for this offence; but there was a difficulty in obtaining it by ordinary ways; what, therefore, they could not do legitimately, without war and without danger, |
one sort of insolence is to rob people of the honour due to them; you certainly slight them thus; for it is the unimportant, for good or evil, that has no honour paid to it. so achilles says in anger: |
but he has left nothing behind him, save this treatise only (and that too by chance, for i believe he never saw it after it first went out of his hands), and some observations upon that edict of january-- one thousand five hundred sixty two, which granted |
of me, before she ever saw my face, is an incident very worthy of consideration. |
either we must know it by sense or by reason. |
and the temerity of chance has suffered to be universally received by the consent of all nations?) they are, i say, so miserable, that of these three or four select laws, there is not so much as one that is not contradicted and disowned, not only by one |
"non est, ut putas, virtus, pater, timere vitam; sed malis ingentibus obstare, nec se vertere, ac retro dare." |
already in existence. and this was once coming to be, so that at that time it was not yet coming to be something else. |
"sir," he said, "your son is now laid upon his bier and is ransomed according to desire; you shall look upon him when you take him away at daybreak; for the present let us prepare our supper. |
"some things can exist apart and some cannot, and it is the former that are substances. and therefore all things have the same causes, because, without substances, modifications and movements do not exist. |
have written. and, as 'tis held of virtue, that it is not greater for having continued longer, so do i hold of truth, that for being older it is none the wiser. |
(seventeen) not only were these matters beyond man's faculties to discover, as he believed, but the attempt to search out what the gods had not chosen to reveal could hardly (he supposed) be well pleasing in their sight. |
ajax. shall a player have regard to this in choosing his role upon the stage, and a wise man fail to do so in selecting his part in life? |
panaetius likewise. but let us return to the subject. |
de bordeaux has shown me a letter in which he mentions that he could not come to see the director of bordeaux, as he intended, having been informed that you mistrust him. the letter is of the day before yesterday. |
next, to the son, destined restorer of mankind, by whom new heaven and earth shall to the ages rise, or down from heaven descend.-such was their song; while the creator, calling forth by name his mighty angels, gave them several charge, as sorted best |
he is said also to have been greatly attached to demetrius, who sailed to cyrene, and to cleochares of myrlea, of whom he said to his messmates, that he wished to open the door to him, but that he prevented him. |
in my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist. |
one hundred twenty nine. the devil has the most extensive perspectives for god; on that account he keeps so far away from him:--the devil, in effect, as the oldest friend of knowledge. |
for i have a great desire to praise the youth. |
what is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. let us be silent,-so we may hear the whisper of the gods. let us not interfere. |
said zarathustra in astonishment to his heart, and hid himself hastily behind a thicket. when however the kings approached to him, he said half-aloud, like one speaking only to himself: "strange! strange! how doth this harmonise? |
for its action in that case would not depend upon subjective conditions, consequently not upon those of time, and of course not upon the law of nature, which serves to determine them, because grounds of reason give to actions the rule universally, |
they should never be known to anybody; nor should they know one another. when they propose anything very material, secure their persons, or have in your possession their wives and children as hostages for their fidelity. |
we cannot do better, in connection with this journey of sympathy, than to repeat the words of pasquier: "that young lady, allied to several great and noble families of paris, proposed to herself no other marriage than with her honour, enriched with the |
orchomenus and chaeronea, had not known what a camel was. |
property. when the ancients, says grotius, gave to ceres the title of legislatrix, and to a festival celebrated in her honour the name of thesmophoria, they meant by that that the distribution of lands had produced a new kind of right: that is to say, the |
contrary to one's own: and, besides, there cannot, in truth, be a greater, more constant, nor more irregular folly than to be moved and angry at the follies of the world, for it principally makes us quarrel with ourselves; and the old philosopher never |
and that which the latines call versutia, (translated into english, shifting,) and is a putting off of a present danger or incommodity, by engaging into a greater, as when a man robbs one to pay another, is but a shorter sighted craft, called versutia, |
call bodies, a term signifying merely the appearance of the thing which is unknown to us, but not therefore less actual. can this be termed idealism? it is the very contrary. |
worthy to be seen; and also at samos two wooden figures of himself dedicated to hera, which were standing even to my own time in the great temple, behind the doors. |
that has been heaped together before it is dry, or that which causes fermentation in new wines before they are run clear of the fruit. |
romans, who felt as if all the honors and solemn observances of their country were, for cleopatra's sake, handed over to the egyptians. |
and though the name of king be not yet given to god, nor of kingdome to abraham and his seed; yet the thing is the same; namely, an institution by pact, of gods peculiar soveraignty over the seed of abraham; which in the renewing of the same covenant by |
having the idea of a god in me, unless really there were a god , a god (i say) that very same god , whose idea i have in my mind (that is, having all those perfections , which i cannot comprehend , but can as it were think upon them ) and who is not |
the objection to regulating them by law and thus avoiding the conflicts which continually arise between the buyers and sellers of labour, is not so much the undesirableness as the impossibility of doing so. |
gladden, then, the hearts of the achaeans at your ships, and more especially those of your own followers and clansmen, while i, in the great city of king priam, bring comfort to the trojans and their women, who vie with one another in their prayers on my |
fabricius saw to it that this fellow was taken back to pyrrhus; and his action was commended by the senate. |
i have observed, that both in wounds and sicknesses, speaking discomposes and hurts me, as much as any irregularity i can commit. |
the achaeans all shouted applause as they saw him straining his utmost, and cheered him as he shot past them; but when they were now nearing the end of the course ulysses prayed inwardly to minerva. "hear me," he cried, "and help my feet, o goddess." |
nicias also determined to fortify plemmyrium, a promontory over against the city, which juts out and narrows the mouth of the great harbour. |
they are not green like the pines, nor gray like the stones, nor blue like the sky; but they have, to my eyes, if possible, yet rarer colors, like flowers and precious stones, as if they were the pearls, the animalized nuclei or crystals of the walden |
what defence can be made for such beastly behaviour? i wish to hear, that i may see the fruit of those high wages of that rhetorician, of that land given in leontini. |
then, when by a decree of the senate he had usurped the high functions and authority of praetor when hirtius and pansa were slain- whether they were destroyed by the enemy, or pansa by poison infused into a wound, hirtius by his own soldiers and caesar's |
and if it is a magnitude, it is corporeal; for the corporeal has being in every dimension, while the other objects of mathematics, e.g. |
regalis sane et digna aeacidarum genere sententia. |
and though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the starres in presence of the sun. |
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