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then the imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature made, nor is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will prefer the passionate and fitful temper, which is easily imitated? |
but they differ from him in this that, as their object is not to disturb men's minds, but rather to appease them, and not so much to persuade as to delight, and as they do it more openly than we do and more frequently, they seek ideas which are neat |
made," shall remain still in disgrace, whilst others are restored; of this the reader must judge. |
heavens. all the planets, including the sun, are carried round in the daily motion of the circle of the fixed stars, and they have a second or oblique motion which gives the explanation of the different lengths of the sun's course in different parts of |
we think we have scientific knowledge if we have reasoned from true and primary premisses. but that is not so: the conclusion must be homogeneous with the basic facts of the science. |
others relate that phaea was a woman, a robber full of cruelty and lust, that lived in crommyon, and had the name of sow given her from the foulness of her life and manners, and afterwards was killed by theseus. |
the great name of mithridates, his reverse, his prayer, full of dignity, deeply affected eunones. he raised the suppliant, and commended him for having chosen the nation of the adorsi and his own good faith in suing for mercy. |
but socrates would speak to them, not of what will be, but of what is-of the present consequence of lowering and degrading the soul. |
for how else should the moon as it waxes and wanes show for the most part a crescent-shaped or gibbous figure, and only at one moment a half-moon? |
just where the stroke was aim'd, th' unerring spear made way, and stood transfix'd thro' either ear. |
nor did they pass these humane and truly greek decrees, without at the same time making their acts conformable to their words. |
existence determinable in time and space to be the existence of things in themselves; it does not therefore oblige us to give up our capital supposition of the ideality of time as a mere form of sensible intuition, and consequently as a mere manner of |
thus he used to do about the judgment of causes; and he also took order for this, that is to say, if he heard that any one was behaving in an unruly manner, he sent for him and punished him according as each act of wrong deserved, and he had watchers and |
cor. one.-if pi be produced to meet the circle again in fifty, pl is equal to pb. |
each party, however, felt surer of defeat from the actual sight of their own dead, than they could feel of victory from conjecture about those of their adversaries. |
if this is not so and the aforesaid proposition is true only at a single moment, then the thing will be over against a particular thing not for any period of time but only at a moment that limits the time. |
exquisite flavour. not a man nor maid in the house knew about it, but only himself, his wife, and one housekeeper: when he drank it he mixed twenty parts of water to one of wine, and yet the fragrance from the mixing-bowl was so exquisite that it was |
no greater misery can of age be told than this: be sure, the young dislike the old. |
"with a sportive cruelty" (or:) "what an unkindness there is in jesting!"--claudian in eutrop. i. twenty four. |
i should not have feared an academician without eloquence, nor a rhetorician without that philosophy, however eloquent he might be; for i am never puzzled by an empty flow of words, nor by the most subtle reasonings delivered without any grace of oratory. |
amongst whom there is no family association. |
yet time-both infinite time and any time you like to take-is made up of these. one would naturally suppose that what is made up of things which do not exist could have no share in reality. |
lastly, appetite too is incompetent to account fully for movement; for those who successfully resist temptation have appetite and desire and yet follow mind and refuse to enact that for which they have appetite. |
doctoring must start from the art, not lead to it. but it is not in this way that nature (in the one sense) is related to nature (in the other). what grows qua growing grows from something into something. into what then does it grow? |
these words cyrus threw out scornfully with reference to the hellenes in general, because they have got for themselves one hundred fifty six markets and practise buying and selling there; for the persians themselves are not wont to use markets nor have |
now when we speak of a power to move or to lift weights, we refer always to the maximum. |
now i am clearly of opinion that a man should live by right and by authority, and not either by recompense or favour. how many gallant men have rather chosen to lose their lives than to be debtors for them? |
if a slave, male or female, does any harm to the property of another, who is not himself a party to the harm, the master shall compensate the injury or give up the offending slave. |
four years after that i was elected quaestor, holding office in the consulship of tuditanus and cethegus, in which year, indeed, he as a very old man spoke in favour of the cincian law "on gifts and fees." |
for the accident and genus and property and definition of anything will always be in one of these categories: for all the propositions found through these signify either something's essence or its quality or quantity or some one of the other types of |
hence bc must be equal to ef, and the same as in one, ac is equal to df, and the angle bac is equal to the angle edf. |
objections and answers. p. one hundred fifty five. |
he tortured them with all the most dismal engines in the world, with the cord, the boots, the rack, the fire, and the sight of his own face. |
if one of the bodies falls in any degree short of the other in potency-suppose fire is finite in amount while air is infinite and a given quantity of fire exceeds in power the same amount of air in any ratio provided it is numerically definite-the |
sect. two hundred forty three. to conclude, the power that every individual gave the society, when he entered into it, can never revert to the individuals again, as long as the society lasts, but will always remain in the community; because without this |
having noticed that the number indicating the greatest depth was apparently in the centre of the map, i laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest |
at this juncture arrived pisander and his colleagues, who lost no time in doing the rest. |
the scythians when in the field and in scarcity of provisions used to let their horses blood, which they drank, and sustained themselves by that diet: |
above all, there ought to be brought store of biscuit, oat-meal, flour, meal, and the like, in the beginning, till bread may be had. |
three. if the external angles of the triangle abc be bisected as in the annexed diagram, the three angular points o, o, o, of the triangle formed by the three bisectors will be the centres of three circles, each touching one side externally, and the other |
it may be fairly urged that the greatest religious interest of mankind could not have been wholly ignored by one who passed his life in fulfilling the commands of an oracle, and who recognized a divine plan in man and nature. (xen. |
thus one may live happily without distinguishing colors; but without acquainting yourself with things, you cannot; and this man was of opinion that the intense application of the mind was taken off by the objects that presented themselves to the eye; and |
but nothing which concerns the eternal can be a matter of chance or spontaneity, and the heaven and its circular motion are eternal. we must therefore ask why this motion takes one direction and not the other. |
hence water is drawn up into the vessel to which fire is applied, but not earth. as earth fails to move upward, so fire fails to move downward when air is withdrawn from beneath it: for fire has no weight even in its own place, as earth has no lightness. |
forty two. through two given points describe a circle whose common chord with another given circle may be parallel to a given line, or pass through a given point. |
was he ill treated, because his blood froze and the current of his veins gradually stopped as the chill of death crept over them? |
early by the spear of mighty ajax. hector then took aim at ajax with a spear, but he saw it coming and just managed to avoid it; the spear passed on and struck schedius son of noble iphitus, captain of the phoceans, who dwelt in famed panopeus and reigned |
it is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him. |
a german is almost incapacitated for presto in his language; consequently also, as may be reasonably inferred, for many of the most delightful and daring nuances of free, free-spirited thought. |
they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were hereafter to be restored-these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with little pegs too |
unseasonable. by it they rather manifest that they never loved them till dead: their life is nothing but trouble; their death full of love and courtesy. |
than would suffice for men of simple life; and they were to spend in common, and to live together in the continual practice of virtue, which was to be their sole pursuit. |
in which double series of numbers are two kinds of means; the one exceeds and is exceeded by equal parts of the extremes, e.g. one, four three, two; the other kind of mean is one which is equidistant from the extremes-two, four, six. |
mean while, to re-salute the world with sacred light, leucothea waked; and with fresh dews imbalmed the earth; when adam and first matron eve had ended now their orisons, and found strength added from above; new hope to spring out of despair; joy, but |
relation to it. i am only conscious, then, that my imagination places one state before and the other after; not that the one state antecedes the other in the object. |
four. if the line which bisects the external vertical angle be parallel to the base, the triangle is isosceles. |
minerva, therefore, took mars by the hand and said, "mars, mars, bane of men, blood-stained stormer of cities, may we not now leave the trojans and achaeans to fight it out, and see to which of the two jove will vouchsafe the victory? |
after a few days, then, he returns to his brother with this company, all three of them surrounding and earnestly importuning him upon the same subject, that now at length he would listen to reason, and be of another mind. |
there is no reason why there should not be one or more intermediates between the contraries, as in the case of colour; for 'intermediate' and 'mean' are capable of more than one application. |
and in speaking of the copy and the original we may assume that words are akin to the matter which they describe; when they relate to the lasting and permanent and intelligible, they ought to be lasting and unalterable, and, as far as their nature allows, |
wherefore, the mother and receptacle of all created and visible and in any way sensible things, is not to be termed earth, or air, or fire, or water, or any of their compounds or any of the elements from which these are derived, but is an invisible and |
the comparison is not very happy, however, because the regularity of the phenomena which sun tzu mentions is by no means paralleled in war. |
as ts'ao kung remarks, "the thing is to see the plant before it has germinated," to foresee the event before the action has begun. |
the mariners, when they heard that, forgot the storm, and laying all their strength to their oars, did what they could to force their way down the river. |
of this occasion marius made good use; for there were beyond the enemies some wooded ascents and deep valleys thickly set with trees, whither he sent claudius marcellus, secretly, with three thousand regular soldiers, giving him orders to post them in |
place, and thirdly, the intermediate place, belonging to the intermediate body. |
sol.-on any side bc of the figure bcd describe the rectangle be equal to bcd i. xlv. , and on ce describe the rectangle ef equal to a. between bc, cf find a mean proportional gh, and on it describe the figure ghi similar to bcd xviii. |
and the uncompounded may be assumed to be the same and unchanging, whereas the compound is always changing and never the same. |
then the triangles abg, def have the two sides ab, bg of one respectively equal to the two sides de, ef of the other, and the angle abg equal to the angle def; therefore iv. the angle agb is equal to dfe; but the angle acb is equal to dfe (hyp.). |
whoever will be cured of ignorance must confess it. |
the walls, with the rafters, crossbeams, and the supports on which they rest are all aglow as with a flaming fire. surely there is some god here who has come down from heaven." |
every such thing they held to be eternal (for it could not pass into anything else), but other things to come into being and cease to be times without number. |
the other, wounds and imprisonment crossing their design and compelling them to live against their will. there are diseases that overthrow even our desires, and our knowledge. |
an additional paradox is that the soul should consist of the 'elements', or that it should be one of them. how are the soul's 'alterations' to take place? how, e.g. |
if that is impossible, and the places are finite, the whole too must be finite; for the place and the body cannot but fit each other. |
you may find a model of the lesser in the greater, i said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them. |
after the defeat a great part of those who had escaped, fled with their king into a town called alesia, which caesar besieged, though the height of the walls, and number of those who defended them, made it appear impregnable; and meantime, from without |
in upon africa and that many of the exiled men of note who had escaped from the proscriptions were daily flocking into those parts. |
for plato never clearly saw that both elements had an equal place in mind and in nature; and hence, especially when we argue from isolated passages in his writings, or attempt to draw what appear to us to be the natural inferences from them, we are full |
varies in different regions. in the first place, he would behold among the unchangeable people of egypt, which preserves in its archives the memory of so many ages and events, a bull adored as a deity, under the name of apis, and a multitude of other |
the master said, 'if a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.' |
and whereas the knowledge they had had of my late father, and the honour they had for his memory, had alone incited them to confer this favour upon me, i plainly told them that i should be very sorry anything should make so great an impression upon me as |
affections, it may be said, are motions, and whiteness is an affection: thus there may be change to a motion. to this we may reply that it is not whiteness but whitening that is a motion. |
to sail back for the tackle which they had put on shore at teichiussa. upon their arrival tissaphernes came to them with his land forces and induced them to sail to iasus, which was held by his enemy amorges. |
sixteen. if a chord of a given circle pass through a given point, the locus of the intersection of tangents at its extremities is a right line. |
in all three dialogues he is exerting his dramatic and imitative power; in the cratylus mingling a satirical and humorous purpose with true principles of language; in the parmenides overthrowing megarianism by a sort of ultra-megarianism, which discovers |
for (i) most thinkers are unanimous in maintaining (a) that 'like' is always unaffected by 'like', because (as they argue) neither of two 'likes' is more apt than the other either to act or to suffer action, since all the properties which belong to the |
the nature of the light and the heavy will be best understood when examined in connexion with our notions of above and below; for it is quite a mistake to suppose that the universe is parted into two regions, separate from and opposite to each other, the |
one hundred thirty one then they all came back through the house again till they got to telemachus, and menelaus said, "telemachus, may jove, the mighty husband of juno, bring you safely home according to your desire. |
broken rock. by this way he got up, though with much difficulty, by the hollow of the cliff, and presented himself to the guards, saluting them, and telling them his name; he was taken in, and carried to the commanders. |
it will be misjudged because it is misunderstood, and misunderstood because men choose to skim through the book, and not to think through it-a disagreeable task, because the work is dry, obscure, opposed to all ordinary notions, and moreover long-winded. |
now, since ac is bisected in p, ek is also bisected in p; hence i. xxxvi. the parallelogram eo is equal to ok; therefore eo is greater than dk; but dk is equal to fd i. xliii. ; hence eo is greater than fd. |
species are not of necessity wanting to the genus. |
thus the license of advocates resulted in the cincian bill; the corrupt practices of candidates, in the julian laws; the rapacity of magistrates, in the calpurnian enactments. |
chap. eighteen. one. tsze-chang asked, saying, 'the minister tsze- wan thrice took office, and manifested no joy in his countenance. thrice he retired from office, and manifested no displeasure. |
thus goeth the body through history, a becomer and fighter. and the spirit-what is it to the body? its fights' and victories' herald, its companion and echo. |
he never reflects, how great a thing it was to have formed a conception, however imperfect, either of the human frame as a whole, or of the world as a whole. |
first, when the legislative is altered. civil society being a state of peace, amongst those who are of it, from whom the state of war is excluded by the umpirage, which they have provided in their legislative, for the ending all differences that may arise |
they are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciously but wrongly transfer to the eternal essence; for we say that he 'was,' he 'is,' he 'will be,' but the truth is that 'is' alone is properly attributed |
for that in which it is in motion will be a time, because all motion is in a period of time; and all time has been shown above to be divisible. |
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