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him through carelessness; though he watches over all his hours with most miserly care, though he live to the extreme confines of human existence, and though misfortune take nothing away from what nature bestowed upon him, even then man is too mortal for |
by which (as i have already shewn in this chapter) is proved no more, than that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the confession of peter, which gave occasion to that speech; namely this, that jesus is christ the sonne of god. |
servants; and handicraftsmen of strong and manly arts, as smiths, masons, carpenters, etc.; not reckoning professed soldiers. |
all the preceding injuries and every kind of assault are deeds of violence; and every man, woman, or child ought to consider that the elder has the precedence of the younger in honour, both among the gods and also among men who would live in security and |
they were sent to say that the lacedaemonians had resolved to open a campaign against tissaphernes, and that thibron, who had set sail to conduct the war, was anxious to avail himself of the troops. |
privilege for the athenians, had it cut upon the same wolf of brass on his right side. |
reading. it is to them, if they are thy own, that i refer myself: but if they are taken upon trust from others, it is no great matter what they are; they are not following truth, but some meaner consideration; and it is not worth while to be concerned |
who were about his own person, a man of reputation, whose name was patarbemis, enjoining him to bring amasis alive into his presence. |
and not long afterwards the edict of brutus and cassius is brought to me; which (perhaps because i love those men, even more for the sake of the republic than of my own friendship for them) appeared to me, indeed, to be full of equity. |
hence i think we may learn the reason why every one familiarly and without the least hesitation speaks of and supposes eternity, and sticks not to ascribe infinity to duration; but it is with more doubting and reserve that many admit or suppose the |
but he little regarded their censure, and slighting that which had only the appearance of an indecency, told them he must buy time, the most precious of all things to those who go upon great enterprises; and pacifying the barbarous people with money, he |
(five) lit. "paradise," an oriental word park or pleasure ground. |
of their properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it; there it presently becomes tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many. |
it had been sad enough for perseus to be forced to let down himself, his wife and children, through a narrow window by a wall, -- people altogether unaccustomed to hardship and flying; but that which drew a far sadder sigh from his heart was, when he was |
moreover, nature herself assists and encourages us: if the death be sudden and violent, we have not leisure to fear; if otherwise, i perceive that as i engage further in my disease, i naturally enter into a certain loathing and disdain of life. |
a poor bed warmeth me more than a rich one, for i am jealous of my poverty. and in winter she is most faithful unto me. |
what perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, c., or thinks, than by any discourse of mine. whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind cannot miss it. |
after the battle, heraclea was so terribly reduced that in the first days of the summer following the boeotians occupied the place and sent away the lacedaemonian agesippidas for misgovernment, fearing that the town might be taken by the athenians while |
there happens to be in the house a most respectable old woman-the same who received my poor dear husband in her arms the night he was born, and nursed him in infancy. she is very feeble now, but she shall wash your feet." |
"as decimus brutus, imperator, consul elect is maintaining the province of gaul in obedience to the senate and people of rome, and as he has enlisted and collected in so short a time a very numerous army, being aided by the admirable zeal of the municipal |
his condition was thus. when he had commanded his son to fall upon the enemy, and word was brought him that they fled and that there was a distant pursuit, and perceiving also that the enemy did not press upon him so hard as formerly, for they were mostly |
thermopylae. who ever ran with a more glorious desire and greater ambition, to the winning, than captain iscolas to the certain loss of a battle?-- diodorus siculus, xv. sixty four. |
thirdly, our complex ideas of substances, being all referred to patterns in things themselves, may be false. |
legal mind is called to account about all this, he gives the philosopher his revenge; for dizzied by the height at which he is hanging, whence he looks down into space, which is a strange experience to him, he being dismayed, and lost, and stammering |
question. first, this very point had escaped all those who used the method of division; and they attempted to persuade men that it was possible to make a demonstration of substance and essence. |
it should be difficult of access to an enemy, but easy to the inhabitants: and as we said, that the number of a inhabitants ought to be such as can come under the eye of the magistrate, so should it be with the country; for then it is easily defended. |
one hundred twenty three. thus the first philosophical objection to the evidence of sense or to the opinion of external existence consists in this, that such an opinion, if rested on natural instinct, is contrary to reason, and if referred to reason, is |
it was, in truth, a wonderful example, and of great advantage for the training up the people, to see every day before their eyes a hundred; two hundred, nay, a thousand couples of men armed against one another, cut one another to pieces with so great a |
up at any age must be within reach of the intellect at that age and perfectly comprehensible to it. childhood and youth are the time for collecting data and getting to know specially and thoroughly individual and particular things. |
and the cause of this, is not alwayes that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, |
thirty nine. away, then, with those follies, which are little better than the old women's dreams, such as that it is miserable to die before our time. what time do you mean? that of nature? |
and although that ought to be spread equally over the whole body of the oration, still it is most efficacious in dealing with common topics; which are called common, because they appear to belong to many causes, but still ought to be considered as |
once upon a time, indeed, there was a great assemblage of the ionians and the neighbouring islanders at delos, who used to come to the festival, as the ionians now do to that of ephesus, and athletic and poetical contests took place there, and the cities |
an asterisk points out an agreement in doctrine. and an obelus marks the rejection of the expression or of the passage. |
they cut off a part of being and investigate the attribute of this part; this is what the mathematical sciences for instance do. |
and they make these divisions according to species; but according to genera they divide them into three topics, that of the world, that of the elements, and the third is that which reasons on causes. |
one?-if thou thinkest thyself able to make opposition to my power, stand thou still and cease from wandering abroad, and fight; but if thou dost acknowledge thyself too weak, cease then in that case also from thy course, and come to speech with thy |
then, i said, reflect. of the three individuals, which has the greatest experience of all the pleasures which we enumerated? |
or did he mean to deny that there is an objective standard of truth? |
in explaining these things, i think that i have sufficiently demonstrated the superiority of man to other animated beings; from whence we should infer that neither the form and position of his limbs nor that strength of mind and understanding could |
but what pleasure there is in that honest straight-forwardness which is its own ornament, and which conceals no part of its character? |
lastly, obedience to his lawes (that is, in this case to the lawes of nature,) is the greatest worship of all. for as obedience is more acceptable to god than sacrifice; so also to set light by his commandements, is the greatest of all contumelies. |
on questions touched upon in the three preceding treatises, and now re-examined, this also is addressed to gorgippides; one on what is possible, addressed to clitus; one on the treatise of philo, on signification; one on what it is that falsehood consists |
by how much the soul is more empty and without counterpoise, with so much greater facility it yields under the weight of the first persuasion. |
nor does he remark that the education of after-life is of another kind, and must consist with the majority of the world rather in the improvement of character than in the acquirement of knowledge. |
and cast his eyes around: "ah wretch!" he cried, "where have i left behind th' unhappy youth? where shall i hope to find? or what way take?" again he ventures back, and treads the mazes of his former track. |
when the centurion reported, according to military custom, that he had executed the command, tiberius replied that he had not given the command, and that the act must be justified to the senate. |
larger under their arms, and go for a walk of a great many miles for the sake of health, that is to say, not their own health, but the health of the birds; whereby they prove to any intelligent person, that all bodies are benefited by shakings and |
down to his morning meal), at this news he overturned the table. |
another help is the allusion in aristotle, who makes the important remark that the latter part of the passage (greek) describes a solid figure. |
and xiii., and greek at the beginning of book xvii. have no initial capitals, one cannot determine. no other books of the "odyssey" have initial capitals except the three mentioned unless the first word of the book is a proper name. |
and there is a third topic, by means of which the matter which is expressed in words is placed before the eyes of those men who are the hearers, so that they think that they themselves also would have done the same things, if the same circumstances and |
so the thessalians, being stripped of allies, upon this took the side of the medes with a good will and no longer half-heartedly, so that in the course of events they proved very serviceable to the king. |
i am going to speak the truth, if you will permit me. |
let us take the pick of these, supplying their places by ordinary baggage animals, and equipping the horses for cavalry. i should not wonder if our troopers gave some annoyance to these fugitives." |
persons used to come to him and ask to be recommended by him to philosophers, and he used to take them to philosophers, so easily did he submit to being overlooked. |
(sixteen) lit. "gnomes," maxims, sententiae. cf. aristot. "rhet." ii. twenty one. |
below, than indeed they have), but in gross. |
for of many interpretations of the word baptisme, he approveth this in the first place, that by baptisme is meant (metaphorically) a baptisme of penance; and that men are in this sense baptized, when they fast, and pray, and give almes: and so baptisme |
yet lysander would not be prevailed upon by these representations, till at last he received secret orders from the magistrates of lacedaemon, expressly requiring him to get alcibiades dispatched: whether it was that they feared his energy and boldness in |
its existence partly is and partly is not intended by legislators; not intended, where they have noticed no defect in the law; intended, where find themselves unable to define things exactly, and are obliged to legislate as if that held good always which |
why, it will follow that he must wish and desire his friend to commit as many mistakes as possible, that he may have all the more handles against him; and, conversely, that he must be annoyed, irritated, and jealous at the right actions or good fortune of |
done ill, in that i had only considered the fitness of the garments, whereas i ought to have considered the justice of the thing, which required that no one should have anything forcibly taken from him that is his own." |
none came to their relief except the lacedaemonians, and they arrived a day too late, when the battle of marathon had been already fought. |
and yet he often desired his friends not to call him orator, but philosopher, because he had made philosophy his business, and had only used rhetoric as an instrument for attaining his objects in public life. |
the motive is not so much humanity to the slave, of which there are hardly any traces (although plato allows that many in the hour of peril have found a slave more attached than members of their own family), but the self-respect which the freeman and |
against the duty of a soveraign to relinquish any essentiall right of soveraignty or not to see the people taught the grounds of them |
so, from the seas, exerts his radiant head the star by whom the lights of heav'n are led; shakes from his rosy locks the pearly dews, dispels the darkness, and the day renews. |
objects of honourable ambition, as when men think in any case that it is their duty to furnish a chorus for the stage splendidly, or fit out and maintain a trireme, or give a general public feast. |
same causes which make him a churchman in london, would have made him a buddhist or a confucian in pekin. |
thereupon he was pointedly asked by lucius asprenas before the senate, whether the omission had been intentional, and it was only then that the name of claudius was added. |
that saturn is so called because se saturat annis , he is full of years; mavors, mars, because magna vortit , he brings about mighty changes; minerva, because minuit , she diminishes, or because minatur , she threatens; venus, because venit ad omnia , she |
judges must beware of hard constructions, and strained inferences; for there is no worse torture, than the torture of laws. |
which are allowed to be goods admit of a similar error, because harm comes to many from them: for before now some have perished through wealth, and others through valour. |
this is what plato calls the "reign of cronos;" and in like manner he connects the reversal of the earth's motion with some legend of which he himself was probably the inventor. |
and so accordingly of these the community may make compounded and mixed forms of government, as they think good. |
a new prince has never been known to disarm his subjects, on the contrary, when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, for by arming them these arms become your own, those that you suspected become faithful and those that were faithful |
athenian: and yet must be answered when we are enquiring about laws, this being our old man's sober game of play, whereby we beguile the way, as i was saying when we first set out on our journey. |
itaque cum multa praeclara maiorum, tum quod optime constituti iuris civilis summo semper in honore fuit cognitio atque interpretatio; quam quidem ante hanc confusionem temporum in possessione sua principes retinuerunt, nunc, ut honores, ut omnes |
and all the picked youth of ithaca. i would have you consider this matter." |
it is rather remarkable that the last-named four should all have flourished within so short a space of time. |
but of a determined disposition, and resolute to see himself righted; however, finding it a hard matter and above his strength to deal with midias, a man so well secured on all sides with money, eloquence, and friends, he yielded to the entreaties of |
"that which is other in species is other than something in something, and this must belong to both; e.g. if it is an animal other in species, both are animals. the things, then, which are other in species must be in the same genus. |
no commonwealth. moreover, justice is that virtue which gives every one his own. |
but here i correct myself for forming my judgment of the power of virtue more from the weakness of others, or of myself perhaps, than from virtue itself: for she herself (provided there is such a thing as virtue; and your uncle brutus has removed all |
but is there not another name which people give to their rulers in other states? |
and therefore our whole endeavours and thoughts are intent to get rid of the present evil, before all things, as the first necessary condition to our happiness; let what will follow. |
those, again, who think renown to be something of supreme excellence are in haste to spread abroad the glory of their name either through the arts of war or of peace. |
dialectic has no definite sphere of this kind, not being confined to a single genus. otherwise its method would not be interrogative; for the interrogative method is barred to the demonstrator, who cannot use the opposite facts to prove the same nexus. |
the way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed. |
the fame of it also reached even to the court of persia, and the king sent letters to his lieutenants, commanding them to supply demosthenes with money, and to pay every attention to him, as the only man of all the grecians who was able to give philip |
however, the athenians who happened to be bivouacking outside took the alarm and came out to meet him, upon seeing which he quickly led his men back again. |
made voyd then, by warre. and when a colony is setled, they are either a common-wealth of themselves, discharged of their subjection to their soveraign that sent them, (as hath been done by many common-wealths of antient time,) in which case the |
power from father to son, till the time of candaules the son of myrsos. |
some men, seizing his hand under pretence of kissing it, thrust his fingers into their mouths, that he might touch their toothless gums; others showed him their limbs bowed with age. |
on this occasion, however, gracchus, the praetor, to whose jurisdiction the inquiry had fallen, felt himself compelled by the number of persons endangered to refer the matter to the senate. |
we ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and to defend himself against his enemies and conquer them in battle. |
if a man can be cured, he can also fall ill; for any two contraries are equally possible, in so far as they are contraries. that if of two similar things one is possible, so is the other. that if the harder of two things is possible, so is the easier. |
nay, drive straight at mars, and smite him in close combat; fear not this raging madman, villain incarnate, first on one side and then on the other. |
but it is not a necessary privation; for not everything which is not greater or less is equal, but only the things which are of such a nature as to have these attributes. |
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