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the piece itself is admitted to be a masterpiece in the kind. tacitus was son-in-law to agricola; and while filial piety breathes through his work, he never departs from the integrity of his own character. |
proceed consecutively, and that we may not get the habit of anticipating and suspecting the meaning of one another's words; i would have you develope your own views in your own way, whatever may be your hypothesis. |
a bed consists and how they are put together, and then we know its nature. |
but these envyings and calumnies were soon dispersed and cleared away from marius, by the danger that threatened italy from the west; when the city, in great need of a good commander, sought about whom she might set at the helm, to meet the tempest of so |
positive in all contradictory predicates. |
as one walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and i see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. |
against ch'u. on the other hand, if we choose to disregard the tradition connecting sun wu's name with ho lu, it might equally well have seen the light between four hundred ninety six and four hundred ninety four, or possibly in the period four hundred |
when he would have given him a considerable sum of money, and, on several repeated occasions, made fresh offers, which plato as often declined, aristippus the cyrenaean, then present, said that dionysius was very safe in his munificence, he gave little to |
the same honor he gives to the stars; but i shall forbear making any objections to his system here, having already done it in another place. |
summon the great masters of either kind of poetry--epicharmus, the prince of comedy, and homer of tragedy; when the latter sings of |
of which was contemporaneous with that of its object. |
seven. these things he effected with wonderful rapidity, and thus established the city, which, from his own name romulus, he determined to call rome. |
and moses alone shall come neer the lord, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people goe up with him." |
two hundred ten et, qua manutius, edd.; ex qua mss. |
this trophy was styled an offering to jupiter feretrius, from ferire, which in latin is to smite; for romulus prayed he might smite and overthrow his enemy; and the spoils were called opima, or royal spoils, says varro, from their richness, which the word |
sixteen. sift their minds and understandings, and behold what men they be, whom thou dost stand in fear of what they shall judge of thee, what they themselves judge of themselves. |
then, thus: "in dares' stead i offer this. eryx, accept a nobler sacrifice; take the last gift my wither'd arms can yield: thy gauntlets i resign, and here renounce the field." |
sixty one. our wrong judgments have regard to future good and evil only. |
but to make the business of legislation an independent power-to make it the first power, with the further proviso that all citizens shall have part therein, and the government be merely executive and dependent, presupposes ignorance that the true idea, |
under one category: for instance, of opportunity or seasonableness (which i have before mentioned as being in the category of time), the science is, in war, generalship; in disease, medical science; and of the mean (which i quoted before as being in the |
does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good? but if you really believe that these acts are the outcome of wanton insolence, i beg you to observe that although to-day, thank god! |
'never, never!' he who charges the gods with neglect has been forced to admit his error; but i should like further to persuade him that the author of all has made every part for the sake of the whole, and that the smallest part has an appointed state of |
it has its strength and its weakness--its sane common sense and noble patriotism, its self-conceit and partisan politics; it has the master's brilliant style, but it is full of repetitions and rhetorical flourishes, and it fails often in logical order and |
the poets, the laconizers, and protagoras are satirized at the same time. |
caesar he had taken possession of cisalpine gaul, which had been conferred on him by caesar), and declared that he would defend it against him by force and preserve it in its duty to the senate, he thought it necessary to procure for brutus a resolution |
scandalous dissipations with the glory of the state, and the means of extending their own authority with the means of augmenting its power? |
and these two being put together, are that infinite duration we call eternity which, as we turn our view either way, forwards or backward appears infinite, because we still turn that way the infinite end of number, i.e. the power still of adding more. |
what of all that, if he be a fool? even pleasure and good fortune are not relished without vigour and understanding: |
soc. ah, fool! and do you imagine that these lovely creatures infuse nothing with their kiss, simply because you do not see the poison? |
nature do not help a little, it is very hard if they can only be kind to us out of pity if they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report if they hear no noise, they think men sleep if to philosophise be, as 'tis defined, to doubt ignorance does |
but apollodorus, in his chronicles says that he flourished in the seventieth olympiad, and that he died in the first year of the seventy-eighth. |
they have the same plumage because of their love. |
what have you to oppose to me, o you eloquent man, as you seem at least to mustela tamisius, and to tiro numisius? |
sparta, and enjoined them to be guided by pherecydes; but some attribute these stories to pythagoras. |
when laodamas heard this he made his way into the middle of the crowd and said to ulysses, "i hope, sir, that you will enter yourself for some one or other of our competitions if you are skilled in any of them-and you must have gone in for many a one |
he also told tissaphernes to bribe the captains and generals of the cities, and so to obtain their connivance-an expedient which succeeded with all except the syracusans, hermocrates alone opposing him on behalf of the whole confederacy. |
it certainly proceeds neither from the heart, nor from the blood, nor from the brain, nor from atoms; whether it be air or fire, i know not, nor am i, as those men are, ashamed, in cases where i am ignorant, to own that i am so. |
now as for being justly dealt with, the position that every case of this is voluntary is a strange one, for some are certainly justly dealt with without their will. |
perform the last sad offices to him, till it reached rome in a procession which resembled a triumph. |
divided into six portions, and makes in all seven circles; and that this is placed on the left hand of the diameter, and situated in the interior. |
now if a inheres in b (for every broad-leaved plant is deciduous), and b in one hundred (every vine possessing broad leaves); then a inheres in one hundred (every vine is deciduous), and the middle term b is the cause. |
nineteen so the phenicians, having burnt these places which have been mentioned, directed their course next to proconnesos and artake; and when they had delivered these also to the flames, they sailed back to the chersonese to destroy the remaining cities |
one should read, if it is possible, the real authors, the founders and discoverers of things, or at any rate the recognised great masters in every branch of learning, and buy second-hand books rather than read their contents in new ones. |
music, and excel this art in a higher degree than that player excels others, yet the best flutes ought to be given to him; for the superiority a in beauty and fortune should have a reference to the business in hand; but these have none. |
from you would he learn his belief in himself; he feedeth upon your glances, he eateth praise out of your hands. |
this man, after he had fought most fiercely at cannae, and had killed many of the enemies, at last was found lying in a heap of dead bodies, covered with darts, and was brought to hannibal, who so honored him, that he not only dismissed him without |
thus did they converse. meanwhile the suitors were hatching a plot to murder telemachus: but a bird flew near them on their left hand-an eagle with a dove in its talons. |
one hundred seven some editors would read "alabastra." alabanda was a carian town. |
the complex idea of the several sorts of them. |
they stood in a new relation to theology and natural philosophy, and for a time maintained towards both an attitude of reserve and separation. yet the similarities between modern and ancient thought are greater far than the differences. |
of their statement or in its conformity to the facts of nature. the discussion of them is in no way appropriate to our present investigation of causes, for. |
to, to be either inhabited by strangers and new-comers, or left a wild pasture for cattle to graze on?" |
struck with which glory, up starts epicurus, who, with submission to the gods, thinks a wise man always happy. |
the gods deal with thee after my desire, with thee and with this land! for fear of heaven i found above all peoples most with you, and righteousness and lips that cannot lie. i speak in gratitude of what i know, for all i have i owe to thee alone. |
envy, which is the canker of honor, is best extinguished by declaring a man's self in his ends, rather to seek merit than fame; and by attributing a man's successes, rather to divine providence and felicity, than to his own virtue or policy. |
realized, they will, without doubt, expect to be compensated for their trouble by the explication of some difficulties, or, at least, by compliments and useless speeches, in which he cannot spend any portion of his time without loss to himself. |
scarce had the down to shade his cheeks begun. one was their care, and their delight was one: one common hazard in the war they shar'd, and now were both by choice upon the guard. |
ninety five metros dindumenes , i.e. kybele: the mountain is dindymos in phrygia. |
a city which is without instruction suffers the usual fate of cities in our day. what then shall we do? how shall we perfect the ideas of our guardians about virtue? how shall we give our state a head and eyes? 'yes, but how do you apply the figure?' |
argue that expediency sometimes clashes with moral rectitude. |
to make the soul as good as possible, and to prepare her for communion with the gods in another world by communion with divine virtue in this, is the end of life. |
now, do you understand what is meant by quasi-body and quasi-blood? for i not only acknowledge that you are a better judge of it than i am, but i can bear it without envy. |
to be sure (answered pericles), adding: at your age we were clever hands at such quibbles ourselves. it was just such subtleties which we used to practise our wits upon; as you do now, if i mistake not. |
impaired by me, i am nevertheless able to discard all these considerations; in this there is implied a consciousness of independence on inclinations and circumstances, and of the possibility of being sufficient for myself, which is salutary to me in |
may you prosper with the ransom and reach your own land in safety, seeing that you have suffered me to live and to look upon the light of the sun." |
socrates: can you tell me the pursuits which delight mankind-or rather, if you would prefer, let me ask, and do you answer, which of them belong to the pleasurable class, and which of them not? in the first place, what say you of flute-playing? |
but as to what concerns epaminondas, i will here, for the example of an excessive goodness, add some of his opinions: he declared, that the greatest satisfaction he ever had in his whole life, was the contentment he gave his father and mother by his |
but all names that are more than empty sounds must signify some idea, which is either in the thing to which the name is applied, and then it is positive, and is looked on as united to and existing in the thing to which the denomination is given; or else |
when, says plato, the insatiate jaws of the populace are fired with the thirst of liberty, and when the people, urged on by evil ministers, drains in its thirst the cup, not of tempered liberty, but unmitigated license, then the magistrates and chiefs, if |
i do not suppose, velleius, that you are like some of the epicureans, who are ashamed of those expressions of epicurus, one hundred one in which he openly avows that he has no idea of any good separate from wanton and obscene pleasures, which, without a |
the contrary, with too violent asseverations. there are many other particulars of the same kind, which may diminish or destroy the force of any argument, derived from human testimony. |
and at last i answered, like one defiant: "yea, i know it, but i will not speak it!" |
imperfect syllogism. only some of them will be proved per impossibile, others by the conversion of the problematic premiss, as has been shown above. |
the certainty and necessity of truth and knowledge do not come from a constraint from the external thing which forces the inner idea into submission; they come from the inner necessity of conformity and coherence in the organism of experience. |
or how can that nature be called animated which neither regards nor performs anything? |
as if valor and all virtue had been the same thing, they used as the common term the name of the particular excellence. |
on the other side, what disgrace, what ignominy, would he not submit to that he might avoid pain, when persuaded that it was the greatest of evils? |
it happens more frequently, as has been hinted, that a scientific head is placed on an ape's body, a fine exceptional understanding in a base soul, an occurrence by no means rare, especially among doctors and moral physiologists. |
as devotion springs from wonder at a thing which we love, so does derision spring from contempt of a thing which we hate or fear, and scorn from contempt of folly, as veneration from wonder at prudence. |
love, which they do with the voice, other than speech? and why should they not speak to one another? they speak to us, and we to them. in how many several sorts of ways do we speak to our dogs, and they answer us? |
back to thy punishment, false fugitive; and to thy speed add wings, lest with a whip of scorpions i pursue thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before." |
in the gloom of our ignorance of what shall be, in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor? |
produce similar impressions on the senses, those which are the offspring of habit, or which are established by the laws, and those too which give pleasure or excite wonder. |
afterwards, however, he took cognizance of the cases of those that had obtained offices by gifts and bribery, and enacted laws and ordinances, setting forth the rules of judgment by which they should be arraigned; and regulating all things with gravity |
as he, simultaneously with the human mind, has the further idea of another thing, we assert that the human mind perceives a thing in part or inadequately. |
he had long had a fancy for driving a four-horse chariot, and a no less degrading taste for singing to the harp, in a theatrical fashion, when he was at dinner. |
as for instance, once when he was reproved for having failed to charm a young man, he replied, "you cannot possibly draw up cheese with a hook before it has got hard." |
are easily granted. the fourth is, "that the pope has (in the dominions of other princes) the supreme temporall power indirectly:" which is denyed; unlesse he mean by indirectly, that he has gotten it by indirect means; then is that also granted. |
the argives however blamed still more loudly the persons who had concluded the truce without consulting the people, themselves thinking that they had let escape with the lacedaemonians an opportunity such as they should never see again; as the struggle |
the framework of the human intellect is not the peculium of an individual, but the joint work of many who are of all ages and countries. |
he threw no light on this species of knowledge, but he certainly struck a spark from which light might have been obtained, had it caught some inflammable substance and had its smouldering fire been carefully nursed and developed. |
and such an one is far better, as we affirm, than the other in a more difficult kind of war, much in the same degree as justice and temperance and wisdom, when united with courage, are better than courage only; for a man cannot be faithful and good in |
sea. notwithstanding, perseus secretly persuaded oroandes of crete, master of a small vessel, to convey him and his treasure away. |
it was settled originally as follows, and the peoples that occupied it are these. |
"but, further, all other things cannot come from the forms in any of the usual senses of 'from'. and to say that they are patterns and the other things share in them is to use empty words and poetical metaphors. |
i should paint the school with the pictures of joy and gladness; flora and the graces, as the philosopher speusippus did his. where their profit is, let them there have their pleasure too. |
one. moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. |
socrates: i understand: then, perhaps, of coats-the skilfullest weaver ought to have the largest coat, and the greatest number of them, and go about clothed in the best and finest of them? |
clearly, dr. giles' work established much of the groundwork for the work of later translators who published their own editions. |
five two. but, my dear cicero, while the whole field of philosophy is fertile and productive and no portion of it barren and waste, still no part is richer or more fruitful than that which deals with moral duties; for from these are derived the rules for |
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