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the gods deal with good men according to the same rule as schoolmasters with their pupils, who exact most labour from those of whom they have the surest hopes. |
hospitality, but the most proper and considerate course. the waste and decay of physical life, which so often needs repair, seemed miraculously retarded in such a case, and the vital vigor stood its ground. |
'twas night; and weary nature lull'd asleep the birds of air, and fishes of the deep, and beasts, and mortal men. the trojan chief was laid on tiber's banks, oppress'd with grief, and found in silent slumber late relief. |
even cool thinkers like kant have recognised how much mere mental control has to do with bodily state,-how each of us, in this way, is often for good or for ill his own physician. |
how can a man understand the name of anything, when he does not know the nature of it? |
and they say solon loved him; and that is the reason, i suppose, that when afterwards they differed about the government, their enmity never produced any hot and violent passion, they remembered their old kindnesses, and retained-- |
now we mark them by judging that a and b are different, and that some third thing is intermediate to them. |
course another way for some time, which he steadily returned to again, as soon as the wind, weather, and other circumstances would let him? |
this rule is relative to each class. even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless. the second thing to aim at is propriety. |
i will not here omit, that i never mutiny so much against france, that i am not perfectly friends with paris; that city has ever had my heart from my infancy, and it has fallen out, as of excellent things, that the more beautiful cities i have seen since, |
they have ordered me always to stand as it were on guard, and to mark the attacks and charges of fortune long before she delivers them; she is only terrible to those whom she catches unawares; he who is always looking out for her assault, easily sustains |
seventeen. the formal aspect of nature in this narrower sense is therefore the conformity to law of all the objects of experience, and so far as it is cognised a priori, their necessary conformity. |
now homer shews us clearly enough how surprise gives the advantage; who represents ulysses weeping at the death of his dog; and not weeping at the tears of his mother; the first accident, trivial as it was, got the better of him, coming upon him quite |
the sun everywhere bright to see, and hot, the rain everywhere dark and cold; and he distinctively characterizes his remaining elements in a similar manner. |
thirteen. the priests also gave me a strong proof concerning this land as follows, namely that in the reign of king moiris, whenever the river reached a height of at least eight cubits twenty it watered egypt below memphis; and not yet nine hundred years |
shouts and acclamations, while they extolled his valor and wondered at his fortune; which being over, standing up, he began an oration in the name of the achaeans, suitable to the late action, persuading the corinthians to associate themselves to the |
bondage, though thus far removed, under th' inevitable curb, reserved his captive multitude. |
most natural act is the production of another like itself, an animal producing an animal, a plant a plant, in order that, as far as its nature allows, it may partake in the eternal and divine. |
seen-the science of number. in his views both of teaching and training he might be styled, in modern language, a doctrinaire; after the spartan fashion he would have his citizens cast in one mould; he does not seem to consider that some degree of freedom, |
he does not observe that water has an equal tendency towards both water and earth. so easily did the most obvious facts which were inconsistent with his theories escape him. |
"speak not of me, thou strange one; thou amiable one!" said zarathustra, and restrained his affection, "speak to me firstly of thyself! art thou not the voluntary beggar who once cast away great riches,- |
this arose from the popular goodwill that the house of bentivogli enjoyed at that time in bologna, which was so great that, as there was nobody left after the death of annibale who could govern the state, the bolognese hearing that there was one of the |
the investigation of similar questions about the void, also, must be held to belong to the physicist-namely whether it exists or not, and how it exists or what it is-just as about place. |
hence the centres and the points a, b are in one right line; therefore ab is a diameter of each circle. hence, if ab be bisected in e, e must be the centre of each circle-that is, the circles are concentric-which v. is impossible. |
but the reason of this conflict is that each group is in fact stating a part, whereas they ought to have taken a comprehensive view of the subject as a whole. |
from the two theorems (i.) and (ii.) we may infer two others, called their contrapositives. thus the contrapositive |
but the mind's conceptions indicate rather the emotions of our body than the nature of external bodies (two. xvi. coroll. ii.); therefore, if the body, and consequently the mind (three. def. |
so the peloponnesians which leotychides resolved to sail back to hellas, while the athenians and xanthippos their commander determined to stay behind there and to make an attempt upon the chersonese. |
that for the space of thirty-four years together had been accustomed to conquest and victory, and was then at last, in his old age, learning for the first time what defeat and flight were. |
well then, are we to characterise him who jests well by his saying what is becoming a gentleman, or by his avoiding to pain the object of his wit, or even by his giving him pleasure? |
secondly, locomotion must be primary in time: for this is the only motion possible for things. |
sol.-take any three points a, b, one hundred in the arc. join ab, bc. bisect ab in five hundred, and bc in e. erect df, ef at right angles to ab, bc; then f, the point of intersection, will be the centre of the circle. |
but in his employment of men, he wishes them to be equal to everything.' chap. twenty six. the master said, 'the superior man has a dignified ease without pride. the mean man has pride without a dignified ease.' chap. twenty seven. |
are too elated with joy are properly called volatile; and as feeling envy is a part of grief, and the being pleased with another's misfortune is a kind of joy, both these feelings are usually corrected by showing the wildness and insensibility of them: |
accordingly, fu yen-ch'ing made a sudden and wholly unexpected onslaught with his cavalry, routed the barbarians and succeeded in breaking through to safety. |
in modern geometry a curve is considered as made up of an infinite number of points, which are placed in order along the curve, and then the secant through two consecutive points is a tangent. |
now all these become causes of disease when the blood is not replenished in a natural manner by food and drink but gains bulk from opposite sources in violation of the laws of nature. |
and above all there is (three) the case of a thing which is in motion neither accidentally nor in respect of something else belonging to it, but in virtue of being itself directly in motion. |
they must not be given without supplement if they express disputed or paradoxical views: we must, in that case, either put the supplement first and make a maxim of the conclusion, e.g. |
and yet, unhappy sire, thou shalt not see a son whose death disgrac'd his ancestry; thou shalt not blush, old man, however griev'd: thy pallas no dishonest wound receiv'd. |
the whole science of nature( as philosophy). |
but whoso nobly yields unto necessity, we hold him wise, and skill'd in things divine. |
native make, which very much resemble lesbian mixing-bowls except that they are much larger,-into these they put the flesh and boil it by lighting under it the bones of the victim: if however thy have not at hand the caldron, they put all the flesh into |
that pomponius atticus, to whom cicero writes so often, being sick, caused agrippa, his son-in-law, and two or three more of his friends, to be called to him, and told them, that having found all means practised upon him for his recovery to be in vain, |
as things stood, these terms were judged tolerable by the rest of the ambassadors; xenocrates only said, that if antipater considered the athenians slaves, he was treating them fairly, but if free, severely. |
we too will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone |
having a power of cooling equal to that of ten pints of air); even so, they are 'comparable in their amount', though not qua 'amount' but qua iso-much power'. there is also (iii) a third possibility. |
it is a menace that can be averted in many ways; but should a serious debt be incurred, we are not to allow the rich to lose their property, while the debtors profit by what is their neighbour's. |
for the answer we give to this question makes the greatest difference. and again, if the primary 'reals' are indivisible magnitudes, are these bodies, as democritus and leucippus maintain? or are they planes, as is asserted in the timaeus? |
hence, multiplying each by c, we get a greater than b. |
with him is the veteran capho; nor is there any man whom the veteran troops hate more cordially; to these men, as if in addition to the dowry which they had received during our civil disasters, antonius had given the campanian district, that they might |
and i will also take of them for priests and for levites, saith the lord:" whereby it is manifest, that the chief seat of gods kingdome (which is the place, from whence the salvation of us that were gentiles, shall proceed) shall be jerusalem; and the |
the contrary, limits by strict conditions my unbounded desire of happiness. |
they made men think of the world as a whole; they carried the mind back into the infinity of past time; they suggested the first observation of the effects of fire and water on the earth's surface. |
to you. for one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. whose assistance, then, can be of more service to me than yours, when you have bestowed on us tranquillity of life, and removed the fear of death? |
water light relatively to earth. the body, then, which moves in a circle cannot possibly possess either heaviness or lightness. for neither naturally nor unnaturally can it move either towards or away from the centre. |
the sight in my opinion is the source of the greatest benefit to us, for had we never seen the stars, and the sun, and the heaven, none of the words which we have spoken about the universe would ever have been uttered. |
and for the same reason esau went from his father, and his brother, and planted in mount seir, gen. xxxvi. six. |
he would neither fly nor give the least ground, but, still fighting and declaring who he was and naming his father's name, he fell upon a heap of dead bodies of the enemy. and of the rest, the bravest were slain in defending brutus. |
xxxii. the angle fcb is equal to the sum of the two interior angles bac, cba of the triangle abc. hence the angle acb is equal to its adjacent angle fcb, and therefore it is a right angle i. def. xiii. . |
one kind of change, then, being change in a relation of contradiction, where a thing has changed from not-being to being it has left not-being. therefore it will be in being: for everything must either be or not be. |
and return to life, if there be such a thing, is the birth of the dead into the world of the living? |
after making this proclamation and reconnoitring the city and the harbours, and the features of the country which they would have to make their base of operations in the war, they sailed back to catana. |
sing, o goddess, the anger of achilles son of peleus, that brought countless ills upon the achaeans. |
meno: no, indeed. but are you in earnest, socrates, in saying that you do not know what virtue is? and am i to carry back this report of you to thessaly? |
than the natural locomotion of the projectile wherewith it moves to its proper place. but in a void none of these things can take place, nor can anything be moved save as that which is carried is moved. |
the oratorio has already lost its relation to the morning, to the sun, and the earth, but that persuading voice is in tune with these. all works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances. |
and since position belongs only to those things which also have a 'place', while the primary differentiation of 'place' is the above' and 'the below' (and the similar pairs of opposites), all things which touch one another will have 'weight' or |
cleinias: if this were not required, stranger, we should all of us be judges of beauty. |
again, 'that for the sake of which', or the end, belongs to the same department of knowledge as the means. but the nature is the end or 'that for the sake of which'. |
dissenting clamours in the town arise; each will be heard, and all at once advise. one part for peace, and one for war contends; some would exclude their foes, and some admit their friends. |
this is one of the great thoughts of early philosophy, which are still as difficult to our minds as they were to the early thinkers; or perhaps more difficult, because we more distinctly see the consequences which are involved in such an hypothesis. |
neanthes relates, that till the time of philolaus and empedocles, the pythagoreans used to admit all persons indiscriminately into their school; but when empedocles made their doctrines public by means of his poems, then they made a law to admit no epic |
nor would the magistrates, as hitherto, exhaust their substance, or would the populace have the same motive for demanding of them the greek contests, when once the state undertakes the expenditure. |
this world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image-an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:-thus did the world once seem to me. |
dem.-one. let pa pass through the centre o. join ot. then because ab is bisected in o and divided externally in p, the rectangle ap.bp ob is equal to op two. vi. . |
if we mentally abstract from this string all thickness, we obtain the notion of the simplest of all lines, which we call a straight line." |
quo genere non modo plautus noster et atticorum antiqua comoedia, sed etiam philosophorum socraticorum libri referti sunt, multaque multorum facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene catone collecta sunt, quae vocant . |
eurymedon, the faithful minister of the mysterious eleusinian queen, was once about t' impeach the stagirite of impious guilt. but he escaped his hands by mighty draught of friendly aconite, and thus defeated all his wicked arts. |
unexpected events, of which the cause was unknown to them, they attributed to chance (thucyd.). |
once more erect, the rival chiefs advance: one trusts the sword, and one the pointed lance; and both resolv'd alike to try their fatal chance. |
ostorius then deployed his light cohorts, but even thus he did not stop the flight, till our legions sustained the brunt of the battle. their strength equalized the conflict, which after a while was in our favour. |
whether the parts which came together at the centre were distributed at the extremities evenly, or in some other way, makes no difference. |
how shall we conclude immediately from the action to the permanence of that which acts, this being nevertheless an essential and peculiar criterion of substance (phenomenon)? |
the mention of minos the great lawgiver, and of rhadamanthus the righteous administrator of the law, suggests the two divisions of the laws into enactments and appointments of officers. |
augustus." he added nothing about himself, fearing jealousy, or thinking that the conciousness of the achievement was enough. next he charged stertinius with making war on the angrivarii, but they hastened to surrender. |
if the rectangle (ap.bp) contained by the segments of a secant, drawn from any point (p) without a circle, be equal to the square of a line (pt) drawn from the same point to meet the circle, the line which meets the circle is a tangent. |
said that there are no longer as many votes as there are men, but only as many as there are associations. the differences become less numerous and give a less general result. |
pascal violently rejected the megalomaniac pride of the stoic philosopher. frederick the great carried the book with him on all campaigns. |
is it reasonable, that the eldest brother, because he has the greatest part of his father's estate, should thereby have a right to take away any of his younger brothers portions? |
he feels also that he must put god as far as possible out of the way of evil, and therefore he banishes him from an evil world. plato is sensible of the difficulty; and he often shows that he is desirous of justifying the ways of god to man. |
deucalion and pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. |
the present pleasure, if it be not very languid, and almost none at all, fills our narrow souls, and so takes up the whole mind that it scarce leaves any thought of things absent: or if among our pleasures there are some which are not strong enough to |
this forms the real constitution of the state, takes on every day new powers, when other laws decay or die out, restores them or takes their place, keeps a people in the ways in which it was meant to go, and insensibly replaces authority by the force of |
reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense. |
the megarians at this time privately praying aid of the athenians, phocion, fearing lest the boeotians should hear of it, and anticipate them, called an assembly at sunrise, and brought forward the petition of the megarians, and immediately after the vote |
a powerful city like argos, the historical enemy of the lacedaemonians, and a sister democracy. |
ten. they thus spoke; and the despots of ionia sent each one by night to his own people announcing to them this. |
i was put off by that dilatory general, and, as i found but little protection in the laws, i urged him to arrest myself, arminius, and his accomplices. that night is my witness; would that it had been my last. |
suppose the line e is equal to the line z, that a proceeds in continuous locomotion from the extreme point of e to g, and that, at the moment when a is at the point b, five hundred is proceeding in uniform locomotion and with the same velocity as a from |
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