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doriscos; but mascames at doriscos none were ever ninety eight able to conquer, though many tried. for this reason the gifts are sent continually for him from the king who reigns over the persians. |
in the fourth place we should then have a thing undergoing the same motion that it is causing-that which is producing heat, therefore, being heated. |
and once more, when a body large and too strong for the soul is united to a small and weak intelligence, then inasmuch as there are two desires natural to man,-one of food for the sake of the body, and one of wisdom for the sake of the diviner part of |
also it is held that what is anywhere is both itself something and that there is a different thing outside it. |
when he came, he brought in with him a huge load of dry firewood to light the fire for his supper, and this he flung with such a noise on to the floor of his cave that we hid ourselves for fear at the far end of the cavern. |
but reason cannot decide objectively in what way we are to conceive this possibility; whether by universal laws of nature without a wise author presiding over nature, or only on supposition of such an author. |
with guides along the upper road; and passing unperceived by the paionians they fell upon their cities, which were left without men, and finding them without defenders they easily took possession of them. |
that there is a centre towards which the motion of heavy things, and away from which that of light things is directed, is manifest in many ways. first, because no movement can continue to infinity. |
oibares therefore hearing this did as follows:-when night was coming on he took one of the mares, namely that one which the horse of dareios preferred, and this he led into the suburb of the city and tied her up: then he brought to her the horse of |
my own life. indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together; we receive, as it were, in our inquiry, and entertain each successive guest, view |
for an attribute that belongs to something qualified by an accident will also belong to the accident taken along with the subject which it qualifies; e.g. |
the elements of bodies must therefore be subject to destruction and generation. |
or, how could space or anything else have been eternal when time is only created? or, how could the surfaces of geometrical figures have formed solids? |
body, and injures the blood and stops its circulation by the clogging of the veins, or else because the worn-out and weakened body reacts upon the mind: this is certainly the reason why those who are broken by ill-health or age are more irascible than |
for the authors of our being, in obedience to their father's will and in order to make men as good as they could, gave to the liver the power of divination, which is never active when men are awake or in health; but when they are under the influence of |
the same winter the plataeans, who were still being besieged by the peloponnesians and boeotians, distressed by the failure of their provisions, and seeing no hope of relief from athens, nor any other means of safety, formed a scheme with the athenians |
three. if through either of the points of intersection of two equal circles any line be drawn meeting them again in two points, these points are equally distant from the other intersection of the circles. |
further, since the change which is motion has been proved' to be eternal, the continuity of the occurrence of coming-to-be follows necessarily from what we have established: for the eternal motion, by causing 'the generator' to approach and retire, will |
the most general facts or appearances of nature, the circle of the universe, the nutritive power of water, the air which is the breath of life, the destructive force of fire, the seeming regularity of the greater part of nature and the irregularity of a |
there may be things not subject to generation or any kind of movement, but if so they belong to another and a higher inquiry than the study of nature. |
now women are to blame to entertain us with that disdainful, coy, and angry countenance, which extinguishes our vigour, as it kindles our desire; which made the daughter-in-law of pythagoras-- theano, the lady in question was the wife, not the |
secondly, passing from the external to the internal evidence, we may remark that the story is far more likely to have been invented by plato than to have been brought by solon from egypt. |
forty six fifteen. now, the men we live with are not perfect and ideally wise, but men who do very well, if there be found in them but the semblance of virtue. |
the same time he engaged himself to take them forth out of the land. |
we cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. |
our very religion itself has no surer human foundation than the contempt of life. not only the argument of reason invites us to it--for why should we fear to lose a thing, which being lost, cannot be lamented? |
on the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the losses they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force |
and we should consider that god gave the sovereign part of the human soul to be the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body, and inasmuch as we are a plant not of an earthly but of a heavenly growth, raises us |
hence the triangle fag is similar to cad, and therefore the angle fag is equal to the angle cad. hence the line ac must pass through the point f, and therefore the parallelograms are about the same diagonal. |
moreover (ii) contraries also 'suffer action', in accordance with the disjunctively-articulated definition established in the early part of this work.' |
bones. with these god covered the bones and marrow, binding them together by sinews, and then enshrouded them all in an upper covering of flesh. |
neither should you engage in anything from which you are not free to retreat: apply yourself to something which you can finish, or at any rate can hope to finish: you had better not meddle with those operations which grow in importance, while they are |
the citizens of no city were more versatile, or more readily changed from land to sea or more quickly moved about from place to place. |
others feel the pleasure of content and prosperity; i feel it too, as well as they, but not as it passes and slips by; one should study, taste, and ruminate upon it to render condign thanks to him who grants it to us. |
for agent and patient have not the same matter, agent acts without being affected: thus the art of healing produces health without itself being acted upon in any way by that which is being healed. |
we must not say then that there is no faculty of expression: for this affirmation is the characteristic of an impious and also of a timid man. |
in the intermediate periods of time-his account being as follows: |
he is not at all absorbed by them, as he is by the idea of good. he is modest and hesitating, and confesses that his words partake of the uncertainty of the subject (tim.). |
do they fall into error who deem that which is best to be also best deserving to receive the homage of reverence? not at all. that cannot possibly be vile and contemptible, to attain which the endeavours of nearly all mankind are directed. |
on the other side, it does not appear that pericles was ever so overreached as fabius was by hannibal with his flaming oxen. |
resentment.fourteen she it was who now lighted telemachus to his room, and she loved him better than any of the other women in the house did, for she had nursed him when he was a baby. |
her will was the theme of much popular criticism, for, with her vast wealth, after having honourably mentioned almost every nobleman by name, she passed over the emperor. |
two. if two circles intercept on any secant chords that have a given ratio, the tangents to the circles at the points of intersection have a given ratio, namely, the ratio compounded of the direct ratio of the radii and the inverse ratio of the chords. |
(c) it is also applied where there is general impossibility of any generation such that the thing now is which then was not. |
they were displeased with caius, for offering the latins an equal right with the romans of voting at the election of magistrates; but when livius proposed that it might not be lawful for a roman captain to scourge a latin soldier, they promoted the |
samuel was displeased with the people, for that they desired a king, (for god was their king already, and samuel had but an authority under him); yet did samuel, when saul observed not his counsell, in destroying agag as god had commanded, anoint another |
(i use my latin with the liberty of conscience you are pleased to allow me.) now this great body, with so many fronts, and so many motions, which seems to threaten heaven and earth:-- |
thus the hair sprang up in the skin, being akin to it because it is like threads of leather, but rendered harder and closer through the pressure of the cold, by which each hair, while in process of separation from the skin, is compressed and cooled. |
motion, then, being eternal, the first movent, if there is but one, will be eternal also: if there are more than one, there will be a plurality of such eternal movents. |
the same holds, consequently, also of the matter itself of that which is heavy and light: as potentially possessing the one character, it is matter for the heavy, and as potentially possessing the other, for the light. |
now the lover who is taken to be the attendant of zeus is better able to bear the winged god, and can endure a heavier burden; but the attendants and companions of ares, when under the influence of love, if they fancy that they have been at all wronged, |
ay, every leaf and twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as when covered with dew in a spring morning. every motion of an oar or an insect produces a flash of light; and if an oar falls, how sweet the echo! |
growing old is natural), nor do we observe one becoming to be natural and another unnatural. we answer that if what happens under violence is unnatural, then violent perishing is unnatural and as such contrary to natural perishing. |
similarly contraries are the extreme points of processes of increase and decrease: the limit of increase is to be found in the complete magnitude proper to the peculiar nature of the thing that is increasing, while the limit of decrease is the complete |
thus we have finished the discussion of the universe, which, according to our original intention, has now been brought down to the creation of man. |
destructible), and without it nothing thinks. |
grace shall one just man find in his sight, that he relents, not to blot out mankind; and makes a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood; nor let the sea surpass his bounds; nor rain to drown the world, with man therein or beast; but, when he |
stands. in considering this subject we must look at all the categories: an act may be an act of kindness because (one) it is a particular thing, (two) it has a particular magnitude or (three) quality, or (four) is done at a particular time or (five) |
if a magnitude is composed of indivisibles, the motion over that magnitude must be composed of corresponding indivisible motions: e.g. |
colonnades, and from the colonnades to other rooms, and then from the chambers again to other courts. |
if phenomena were things in themselves, no man would be able to conjecture from the succession of our representations how this manifold is connected in the object; for we have to do only with our representations. |
i mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. and i will tell you why. |
every deliberation is then sayd to end when that whereof they deliberate, is either done, or thought impossible; because till then wee retain the liberty of doing, or omitting, according to our appetite, or aversion. |
establishing principles of his own, but with the object of refuting the arguments of others. |
in point of literary style, sun tzu's work belongs to the same school as kuan tzu , twenty two liu t'ao , twenty three and the yueh yu twenty four and may have been the production of some private scholar living towards the end of the "spring and autumn" |
why must there be that-- making one be in the government?' chap. twenty two. the master said, 'i do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. |
one hundred forty four. so when the persians arrived at samos bringing syloson home from exile, no one raised a hand against them, and moreover the party of maiandrios and maiandrios himself said that they were ready to retire out of the island under a |
if you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time. |
commands. it is not likely, if she has written the rest of the play well, that she has been careless about the last act like some idle poet. |
permanent and legitimate by the establishment of property and laws. |
son prisoners. this war ended, gabinius was solicited by ptolemy to restore him to his kingdom of egypt, and a promise made of ten thousand talents reward. |
meantime the suitors went on board and sailed their ways over the sea, intent on murdering telemachus. |
meanwhile, the mitylenian and other lesbian exiles set out, for the most part from the continent, with mercenaries hired in peloponnese, and others levied on the spot, and took rhoeteum, but restored it without injury on the receipt of two thousand |
here endeth chapter sixteen. of the bhagavad-gita, entitled "daivasarasaupadwibhagayog," or "the book of the separateness of the divine and undivine." |
if man is to be a real intelligence, he must be an intelligence served by organs. |
in relation to what i am now speaking of, the gascon proverb, derived from a cornpipe, is very quaint and subtle: |
miserably trained that they could not fight for their young, as birds will, against any creature however strong, and die or undergo any danger, but must instantly rush to the temples and crowd at the altars and shrines, and bring upon human nature the |
but antoninus his son was also a man of great ability, and possessed qualities that rendered him admirable in the sight of the people and also made him popular with the soldiers, for he was a military man, capable of enduring the most extreme hardships, |
meanwhile her foremost champion, vitellius, in the full tide of his power and in extreme age (so uncertain are the fortunes of the great) was attacked by an accusation of which junius lupus, a senator, was the author. |
it is, then, with good reason that of all that remains, when we exclude primary substances, we concede to species and genera alone the name 'secondary substance', for these alone of all the predicates convey a knowledge of primary substance. |
and every trade in the same nature, as a captain in an army has his particular company of soldiers under him, had its own hired company of journeymen and laborers belonging to it banded together as in array, to be as it were the instrument and body for |
rest of the allies, and suddenly open the gates and dash at them, and hasten to engage as quickly as you can. |
and even if the motion round a circle is the contrary of the reverse motion, one of the two would be ineffective: for both move to the same point, because that which moves in a circle, at whatever point it begins, must necessarily pass through all the |
prop. thirty three.-theorem. the right lines (ac, bd) which join the adjacent extremities of two equal and parallel right lines (ab, four hundred) are equal and parallel. |
but he can envy his equal, who is assumed to have the same nature as himself. q.e.five hundred. |
in the present age--which has been described as "destitute of faith, but terrified at scepticism"--in which people feel sure, not so much that their opinions are true, as that they should not know what to do without them--the claims of an opinion to be |
this is the reason why clitomachus said of old that carneades had outdone the labours of hercules, in having eradicated consent from men, that is to say, opinion and the courage of judging. |
to such a pitch of absurdity have we come that we suffer not only from pain, but from the idea of pain, like children, who are terror-stricken by darkness, misshapen masks, and distorted faces, and whose tears flow at hearing names unpleasing to their |
that the world was generated all are agreed, but, generation over, some say that it is eternal, others say that it is destructible like any other natural formation. |
pass only this pure element. when the light of day surrounds the stream of vision, then like falls upon like, and they coalesce, and one body is formed by natural affinity in the line of vision, wherever the light that falls from within meets with an |
phaedo: after all this had been admitted, and they had that ideas exist, and that other things participate in them and derive their names from them, socrates, if i remember rightly, said:-- |
knows whether he is a man, or some other animal:--coste." --what it is to do and to suffer? what animals law and justice are? do they speak of the magistrates, or to him, 'tis with a rude, irreverent, and indecent liberty. |
corresponding with these four arts or sciences there are four shams or simulations of them, mere experiences, as they may be termed, because they give no reason of their own existence. |
well, good counsel is a rightness of deliberation, and so the first question must regard the nature and objects of deliberation. |
well then, since he seems to have no peculiar personal advantage, supposing him a just man, for in this case he does not allot to himself the larger share of what is abstractedly good unless it falls to his share proportionately (for which reason he |
since, therefore, the be dy is divisible through and through, let it have been divided. what, then, will remain? a magnitude? |
; but abf is right (hyp.); therefore bfg is right-that is, fg is perpendicular to ce. hence every line in the plane de, drawn perpendicular to the common section of the planes de, one hundred one, is normal to the plane one hundred one. therefore eleven. |
the condition of man in this life shall never be without inconveniences; but there happeneth in no common-wealth any great inconvenience, but what proceeds from the subjects disobedience, and breach of those covenants, from which the common-wealth had its |
we will say no more, however, about this, for we can both of us deceive upon occasion-you are the most accomplished counsellor and orator among all mankind, while i for diplomacy and subtlety have no equal among the gods. |
a government shall also alter from its ancient and approved democratic form into one entirely new, if there is no census to regulate the election of magistrates; for, as the election is with the people, the demagogues who are desirous of being in office, |
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