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"this hound," answered eumaeus, "belonged to him who has died in a far country. if he were what he was when ulysses left for troy, he would soon show you what he could do. |
allies desired; whereas, as i insisted, it was our duty to be generous to the allies and to treat the publicans as we were accustomed individually to treat our tenants--and all the more, because harmony between the orders was essential to the welfare of |
see "dict. geog." s.v. the name thebes pedion preserves the site. cf. above kaustrou pedion , and such modern names as "the campagna" or "piano di sorrento." |
sect. eight. and thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power, to use a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the passionate heats, or boundless extravagancy of his own |
nor less think we in heaven of thee on earth than of our fellow-servant, and inquire gladly into the ways of god with man: for god, we see, hath honoured thee, and set on man his equal love: say therefore on; for i that day was absent, as befel, bound on |
thus the distance between the two armies grew to be so great, that the next day the enemy did not appear at all, nor yet on the third day; but on the fourth the barbarians had pushed on by a forced night march and occupied a commanding position on the |
iii., v.), while modes are merely modifications of the attributes of god. but from god, or from any of his attributes, in so far as the latter is modified by a modification infinite and eternal, a conditioned thing cannot follow. |
devotion was, he had not patience to wear it till night, and was sick a long time after; adding withal, that he did not think there could be any youthful heat so fierce that the use of this recipe would not mortify, and yet perhaps he never essayed the |
there is no other place that can so much as colourably be drawn, to countenance the casting out of the church faithfull men, such as beleeved the foundation, onely for a singular superstructure of their own, proceeding perhaps from a good pious |
king agamemnon assented. so he gave the bronze spear to meriones, and handed the goodly cauldron to talthybius his esquire. |
the most difficult point, assembling for the purpose of deliberation, was already accomplished; and there was always more danger from the discovery of designs like these, than from their execution." |
seventy five a man once said to him, that his friends laid plots against him; "what then," said he, "are you to do, if you must look upon both your friends and enemies in the same light?" |
do you not see how dangerous it is for a man to speak or act beyond the range (fourteen) of his knowledge? |
way with so great an army. so themistocles once more dispatched arnaces, the eunuch, his prisoner, giving him in command privately to advertise the king that he had diverted the greeks from their intention of setting sail for the bridges, out of the |
motion, though not of all duration, and so may come to a step and non ultra in his consideration of motion. |
o pitiful coward, thou faintest, and i grow stronger; make me complain, make me bend, make me yield if thou canst; encourage thy guards, cheer up thy executioners; see, see they faint, and can do no more; arm them, flesh them anew, spur them up"; truly, a |
you have all one feeling, you have all one desire, that of averting the attempts of marcus antonius from the republic, of extinguishing his frenzy and crushing his audacity. all orders have the same wish. |
very wearisome by being repeated a hundred times over and over again to the same people. |
of a sickly habit; others, that he poisoned himself; others again, that his enemies, breaking in upon him in the night, stifled him. |
no less did the multitude of commanders distract and confound their proceedings; frequently before, upon less occasions, they had chosen a single leader, with the title of dictator, being sensible of what great importance it is in critical times to have |
who, if he had so much regarded a present infamy, should have guarded the city at first with his arms, and fought the battle in defense of rome, not have left it as he did; nor while declaring his flight from italy an artifice in the manner of |
two legions, the eighth and the fifteenth, were actually drawing swords against each other, the former demanding the death of a centurion, whom they nicknamed sirpicus, while the men of the fifteenth defended him, but the soldiers of the ninth interposed |
drawn from the description of the first state taken apart from the second, such as aristotle appears to draw in the politics. we should not interpret a platonic dialogue any more than a poem or a parable in too literal or matter-of-fact a style. |
does it happen, in all these relations, that, when one of the objects is presented to the senses or memory, the mind is not only carried to the conception of the correlative, but reaches a steadier and stronger conception of it than what otherwise it |
for the soul which hath the longest ladder, and can go deepest down: how could there fail to be most parasites upon it?- |
corinthians, weighing six talents and a half, for three talents and a half were melted away from it. |
"may it be even so," answered penelope; "if your words come true you shall have such gifts and such good will from me that all who see you shall congratulate you; but i know very well how it will be. |
west led to lydia and ionia; and the part through the mountains facing towards the great bear, led, they said, to the carduchians (one). |
prop. six. the modes of any given attribute are caused by god, in so far as he is considered through the attribute of which they are modes, and not in so far as he is considered through any other attribute. |
the pleasantness of victory implies of course that combative sports and intellectual contests are pleasant (since in these it often happens that some one wins) and also games like knuckle-bones, ball, dice, and draughts. |
them. then he turned to the envoys and bestowed high praise on the young foster-son of rome, as one whose self-control had hitherto been exemplary. "still," he said, "they must bear with the caprices of kings, and frequent revolutions were bad. |
"credit jam digna pericula caesar fatis esse suis; tantusne evertere, dixit, me superis labor est, parva quern puppe sedentem, tam magno petiere mari;" |
that the two things are not separated either in coming to be or in ceasing to be); and similarly 'one existent man' adds nothing to 'existent man', and that it is obvious that the addition in these cases means the same thing, and unity is nothing apart |
socrates: i will. suppose a person to come to your friend eryximachus, or to his father acumenus, and to say to him: 'i know how to apply drugs which shall have either a heating or a cooling effect, and i can give a vomit and also a purge, and all that |
thirteen. a calm and peaceful king trusts his guards, because he makes use of them to ensure the common safety of all his subjects, and his soldiers, who see that the security of the state depends upon their labours, cheerfully undergo the severest toil |
"it is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose." --cicero, de natura deor., iii. six. |
soc. well then, when you wish to win some one's affection, you will allow me to lodge information against you to the effect that you admire him and desire to be his friend? |
he transgressed, likewise, his own sumptuary laws respecting expenditure in banquets, thinking to allay his grief by luxurious drinking parties and revelings with common buffoons. |
'yet how is it possible that thou knowest not what is the end of existence, when thou dost understand its source and origin? |
the original was, of course, in caps only, and so were all the other etexts of the sixty's and early seventy's. |
something too of the recollections of childhood might float about them still; they might regain that old simplicity which had been theirs in other days at their first entrance on life. |
the soldiers united under one general with the entire and absolute control placed in his hands. add to all, the remembrance of camillus's treatment, which made it now seem a dangerous thing for officers to command without humoring their soldiers. |
there is one common reason, and one common truth, that belongs unto all reasonable creatures, for neither is there save one perfection of all creatures that are of the same kind, and partakers of the same reason. |
for you must not expect to have influence either with the athenian demos or with demos the son of pyrilampes, unless you become like them. what do you say to this? |
this unexpected jest of their general made all the company laugh, and as they came down from the hill, they told it to those whom they met, which caused a general laughter amongst them all, from which they were hardly able to recover themselves. |
so when they saw that the eunuchs had been attacked and were crying aloud, they ran back sixty seven both of them, and perceiving that which was being done they turned to self-defence: and one of them got down his bow and arrows before he was attacked, |
this, aristippus, in rough sketch is the theme which prodicus pursues (forty one) in his "education of heracles by virtue," only he decked out his sentiments, i admit, in far more magnificent phrases than i have ventured on. |
themselves away, and by a yet much more rigorous example, precipitating out of love and compassion their young children into wells and pits, to avoid the severity of this law. |
i did therefore thus:-i called this herdsman and delivered the child to him, saying first that thou wert he who bade him slay it-and in this at least i did not lie, for thou didst so command. |
and if the principle of each of the two kinds of number is a one, unity will be something common to these, and we must inquire how the one is these many things, while at the same time number, according to him, cannot be generated except from one and an |
"like a small bark that's tost upon the main. when winds tempestuous heave the liquid plain." |
then, although we are admirers of homer, we do not admire the lying dream which zeus sends to agamemnon; neither will we praise the verses of aeschylus in which thetis says that apollo at her nuptials |
and take with thee this curse i leave thee as my last bequest:- never to win by arms thy native land, no, nor return to argos in the vale, but by a kinsman's hand to die and slay him who expelled thee. |
every religion, therefore, being attached solely to the laws of the state which prescribed it, there was no way of converting a people except by enslaving it, and there could be no missionaries save conquerors. |
ring is being turned round the finger; yet, when you feel them, they seem all of an equal size. |
not only the reproaches that we throw in the face of one another, but our reasons also, our arguments and controversies, are reboundable upon us, and we wound ourselves with our own weapons: of which antiquity has left me enough grave examples. |
direction, without distraction. but then it must be a prudent king, such as is able to grind with a handmill; and those inward counsellors had need also be wise men, and especially true and trusty to the king's ends; as it was with king henry the seventh |
this furious monster, with so many heads and arms, is yet man--feeble, calamitous, and miserable man! 'tis but an ant-hill disturbed and provoked:-- |
them by dionysius the carthaginian; because they carried on their investigations by question and answer. hermodorus says that after the death of socrates, plato and the other philosophers came to euclides, because they feared the cruelty of the tyrants. |
with any great subtlety, and they think their establishment to be owing to this. |
we must also notice the ends which the various forms of government pursue, since people choose in practice such actions as will lead to the realization of their ends. |
used for honours sake to their persons; and when tis done for the death of them by whose life the mourners had benefit, it proceeds from their particular dammage: and so david honoured saul, and abner, with his fasting; and in the death of his owne child, |
kill him: that john baptist proclaimed him: that he preached by himselfe, and his apostles that he was that king; that he taught the law, not as a scribe, but as a man of authority: that he cured diseases by his word onely, and did many other miracles, |
we must, of course, put forth every effort to oblige all sorts and conditions of men, if we can. |
in the night, after caesar's death he occupied the forum with his troops and thought of making himself master of the city, but antonius dissuaded him from that idea and won him over to his views by giving his daughter in marriage to lepidus's son, and by |
cannot they thirst? are not the limbs of the wealthy sensitive to the winter's cold? "but," thou wilt say, "the rich have the wherewithal to sate their hunger, the means to get rid of thirst and cold." |
degenerate, impotent person. but this fear was soon removed by a wonderful thing that happened not long after, and was thought to presage better. |
the whole question, of the rights of the people was contained in the cause of rabinius; and accordingly we indulged in every conceivable amplification. but these styles require at times to be regulated and restrained. |
are disappointed. then, as socrates says, the cry of ingratitude is heard, which is most unreasonable; for the people, who have been taught no better, have done what might be expected of them, and their statesmen have received justice at their hands. |
socrates: and the same may be said of the human body? |
must be some other and permanent entities, apart from those which are sensible; for there could be no knowledge of things which were in a state of flux. |
and so we should neither stir our bodies, nor employ our minds, but let our thoughts (if i may so call it) run adrift, without any direction or design, and suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded shadows, to make their appearances there, as it |
but argive chiefs, and agamemnon's train, when his refulgent arms flash'd thro' the shady plain, fled from his well-known face, with wonted fear, as when his thund'ring sword and pointed spear drove headlong to their ships, and glean'd the routed rear. |
aegyptius, a man bent double with age, and of infinite experience, was the first to speak. |
but distinguish, as cicero saith well of rabirius posthumus, in studio rei amplificandae apparebat, non avaritiae praedam, sed instrumentum bonitati quaeri. |
at rome, cinna and carbo were now using injustice and violence towards persons of the greatest eminence, and many of them to avoid this tyranny repaired, as to a safe harbor, to sylla's camp, where, in a short space, he had about him the aspect of a |
a case decided beforehand, is a matter approved of by the assent, or authority, or judgment of some person or persons. it is seen in three kinds of decision;--the religious one, the common one, the one depending on sanction. |
a striking similarity between athens and the constitution of the magnesian colony is the use of the lot in the election of judges and other magistrates. |
plutarch delivers this story for a certain truth, and that it happened in the age wherein he lived. |
but that relation of substances in which the one contains determinations the ground of which is in the other substance, is the relation of influence. and, when this influence is reciprocal, it is the relation of community or reciprocity. |
but concerning the ideas themselves, it is easy to remark, that those that are oftenest refreshed (amongst which are those that are conveyed into the mind by more ways than one) by a frequent return of the objects or actions that produce them, fix |
even an enemy grudges not burial. when, with embraces and tears, i have sated my grief, order me also to be slain, provided only that when we have been destroyed for no crime, but only because we consulted the good of the legions, we may be buried by |
after this fashion and in this manner the whole heaven has been created, and all that is in the heaven, as well as animals and all plants, and all the seasons come from these elements, not by the action of mind, as they say, or of any god, or from art, |
also, that animals are born from one another by seeds, and that it is impossible for there to be any spontaneous production by the earth. |
athenian: the desire which a man has, that all things, if possible,--at any rate, things human,--may come to pass in accordance with his soul's desire. |
i think i had better be on the look-out for stones when i return. you heard the threats?" |
with a loud cry he called deiphobus and asked him for one, but there was no man; then he saw the truth and said to himself, "alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction. |
garmantians, a very great nation, who carry earth to lay over the salt and then sow crops. from this point is the shortest way to the lotophagoi, for from these it is a journey of thirty days to the country of the garmantians. |
"zarathustra born on lake urmi; left his home in his thirtieth year, went into the province of aria, and, during ten years of solitude in the mountains, composed the zend-avesta." |
it grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground. |
four. modes, in reference to settled names, may be inadequate. |
virtue. although the divinity, to whom they desire to compare and assimilate themselves, excels, it is supposed, in three things, immortality, power, and virtue; of which three, the noblest and divinest is virtue. |
praises, fear to be believed. but he, who endeavours to lead men by reason, does not act by impulse but courteously and kindly, and his intention is always consistent. |
and the result is, that reason does more for man than nature does for brutes; since, in the latter, neither the greatness of their strength nor the firmness of their bodies can save them from being oppressed by us, and made subject to our power. |
these, i imagine, are two-fold: the one class preventing our becoming angry, the other preventing our doing wrong when we are angry. |
plato and aristotle were familiar with the legislator who was called in by the whole people, and they tended therefore to take the general will or common consent of the people for granted. |
of all superiority; since revenge would not have been set above religion, and gain above justice, had it not been for the fatal power of envy. |
sect. sixty. but if, through defects that may happen out of the ordinary course of nature, any one comes not to such a degree of reason, wherein he might be supposed capable of knowing the law, and so living within the rules of it, he is never capable of |
officers. but if either in the case of generals or of the inferior officers any one is ready to swear that he knows of a better man than those nominated, he may put the claims of his candidate to the vote of the whole army, or of the division of the |
them is the perfect man. when pleasure and pain, and love and hate, are rightly implanted in the yet unconscious soul, and after the attainment of reason are discovered to be in harmony with her, this harmony of the soul is virtue, and the preparatory |
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