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or shall we refuse to determine what is the meaning of voluntary and involuntary, and maintain that our words have come down from heaven, and that they should be at once embodied in a law?' |
and criticisms which wait upon a great existing fact. it was now perceived that such phrases as "self-government," and "the power of the people over themselves," do not express the true state of the case. |
not to be; and also (c) in a third sense, to that which is easily destructible, to the 'easily destroyed', so to speak. of the indestructible the same account holds good. |
it is simply a certain association of ideas involving the nature of things outside the human body, which association arises in the mind according to the order and association of the modifications (affectiones) of the human body. |
in the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. |
it is over-run with wild goats, that breed there in great numbers and are never disturbed by foot of man; for sportsmen-who as a rule will suffer so much hardship in forest or among mountain precipices-do not go there, nor yet again is it ever ploughed or |
with heracleitus, he acknowledges the perpetual flux; like anaxagoras, he asserts the predominance of mind, although admitting an element of necessity which reason is incapable of subduing; like the pythagoreans he supposes the mystery of the world to be |
antiphon. why, socrates, i always thought it was expected of students of philosophy to grow in happiness daily; but you seem to have reaped other fruits from your philosophy. |
consequence of the traces which it has left in us. |
they postulate only that the finite straight line may be produced as far as they wish. it is possible to have divided in the same ratio as the largest quantity another magnitude of any size you like. |
among substances are by general consent reckoned bodies and especially natural bodies; for they are the principles of all other bodies. |
when the ten commissioners, delegated to titus from the senate; advised him to restore the rest of greece to their liberty, but that corinth, chalcis, and demetrias should be kept garrisoned for security against antiochus; the aetolians, on this, breaking |
the case of contradictory change. it is clear, then, that that which has changed, at the moment when it has first changed, is in that to which it has changed. |
(his denial of the reality of colour is a corollary from this position: for, according to him, things get coloured by 'turning' of the 'figures'.) but the possibility of such a construction no longer exists for those who divide bodies into planes. |
it is evident, from the preceding development and discussion of difficulties, that growth is not a change out of something which, though potentially a magnitude, actually possesses no magnitude. |
we may question whether the note given by a single string is one and the same, or is different each time the string is struck, although the string is in the same condition and is moved in the same way.) but still, however this may be, there is nothing to |
i know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy. rich, noble and great they are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad. o blessed spirit, whom i forsake for these, they are not thou! |
then the time occupied by the process will be infinite, and also that occupied by the reverse process of synthesis. for the processes of analysis and synthesis succeed one another in the various parts. |
"son of tydeus," he said, "why stand you cowering here upon the brink of battle? |
two hundred sixty three. there is an instinct for rank, which more than anything else is already the sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence which leads one to infer noble origin and habits. |
with reference to the disposition of the man who did them:--if he did not do them with a view to any advantage of his own, but if he did everything else for the express purpose of being able to do this afterwards. |
but say i could repent, and could obtain, by act of grace, my former state; how soon would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay what feigned submission swore? ease would recant vows made in pain, as violent and void. |
now that these points are settled, it is clear that the first unmoved movent cannot have any magnitude. for if it has magnitude, this must be either a finite or an infinite magnitude. |
wherefore with thee came not all hell broke loose? is pain to them less pain, less to be fled? or thou than they less hardy to endure? courageous chief! the first in flight from pain! |
tacite dit qu'un astrologue, nomme p. marcius, fut execute, selon l'ancien usage, hors de la porte esquiline, en presence du peuple romain que les consuls firent convoquer au son de la trompette." (tac. ann. two. thirty two.) fifty. grom. |
then when it is undergoing locomotion from a to g it is at the same time undergoing also its locomotion to a from g: consequently it is simultaneously undergoing two contrary motions, since the two motions that follow the same straight line are contrary |
nineteen. and was therefore a vision, though a more cleer vision than was given to other prophets. and conformable hereunto, where god saith (deut. thirteen. |
but i ought cheifly to search after those of them which i count adventitious , and which i consider as coming from outward objects , that i may know what reason i have to think them like the things themselves, which they represent . viz. |
these issuing from spartolus were engaged by the athenians in front of the town: the chalcidian heavy infantry, and some auxiliaries with them, were beaten and retreated into spartolus; but the chalcidian horse and light troops defeated the horse and |
i answer, (one) those qualities are in the mind only as they are perceived by it--that is, not by way of mode or attribute, but only by way of idea; and it no more follows the soul or mind is extended, because extension exists in it alone, than it does |
this animates our enemy to follow his blow: these articles which they select as things indifferent, are sometimes of very great importance. |
and though in the revolution of states, there can be no very good constellation for truths of this nature to be born under, (as having an angry aspect from the dissolvers of an old government, and seeing but the backs of them that erect a new;) yet i |
plato's doctrine of the same and the other ruling the courses of the heavens and of the human body is not a mere vagary, but is a natural result of the state of knowledge and thought at which he had arrived. |
"every great example has in it some mixture of injustice, which recompenses the wrong done to particular men by the public utility." --annals, xiv. forty four. |
race. as for you, since ye had had no experience of the persians, i for my part was very ready to excuse you when ye praised these, of whom after all ye knew something good; but much more i marvelled at artabazos that he should have been afraid of the |
nay, i do not know whether the ardour that springs from spite and obstinacy, against the power and violence of the magistrate and danger, or the interest of reputation, may not have made some men, even at the stake, maintain the opinion for which, at |
if he has stated without any distinction that disinherited persons are bad, you may assume in discussing it that he means that they are so necessarily. |
indignation, but cato, in mock disparagement of himself, said, "rome would become great indeed, if the most honorable and great men would not yield up the first place of valor to those who were more obscure, and when they who were of the commonalty (as he |
cruel jove gave me his solemn promise that i should sack the city of priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to argos with the loss of much people. |
proof.--if indeed the body were not the object of the human mind, the ideas of the modifications of the body would not be in god (two. ix. |
after ordering a second seat to be placed for cinna, he sent every one else out of the room, and said:-"the first request which i have to make of you is, that you will not interrupt me while i am speaking to you: that you will not cry out in the middle of |
xxx. a lozenge which has a right angle is called a square. |
without which no man can enter their temple. all this shows that madness is one of heaven's blessings, and may sometimes be a great deal better than sense. |
soon thro' the joyful camp a rumour flew, the time was come their city to renew. then ev'ry brow with cheerful green is crown'd, the feasts are doubled, and the bowls go round. |
suppose (a) that the infinite sensible body is homogeneous. then each part will be either immovable or always being carried along. yet neither is possible. for why downwards rather than upwards or in any other direction? |
cor.-with the same hypotheses, if l, m, n be any three multipliers, a : b :: la mc ne : lb md nf. |
(five) the meaning of the words 'artificer of day and night' is literally true according to plato's view. |
thus supposing the regulation of times for the assembling and sitting of the legislative, not settled by the original constitution, it naturally fell into the hands of the executive, not as an arbitrary power depending on his good pleasure, but with this |
as bockh and the majority of commentators, ancient as well as modern, are inclined to believe, plato thought that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, or, as aristotle and mr. grote suppose, that it revolved on its axis. |
sentence. on this, the gauls marched with their army to rome, where, having taken the capitol, they sacked the city. the particulars of all which are fully given in the history of caminus. |
confronts the maxim of the will in any action with the pure will, that is, with itself, considering itself as a priori practical. |
(the same argument applies to lightness: for as the one supposition involves infinite weight, so the infinity of the body which rises to the surface involves infinite lightness.) this is proved as follows. |
first then for the gods they chose out first-fruits of the spoil, and among them three persian triremes, one to be dedicated as an offering at the isthmus, which remained there still up to my time, another at sunion, and the third to ajax in salamis where |
twenty one. what is meant by the obverse of a proposition? |
besides, as in every business and art there are some things which men are to learn first and be made accustomed to, which are necessary to perform their several works; so it is evident that the same thing is necessary in the practice of virtue. |
thirty one. if from any point in the circumference of any concentric circle perpendiculars be let fall on all the sides of any regular polygon, the sum of their squares is constant. |
have the worms eaten him although they feed on warriors. at daybreak achilles drags him cruelly round the sepulchre of his dear comrade, but it does him no hurt. |
two. anaxarchus too enjoyed the intimacy of alexander, and flourished about the hundred and tenth olympiad. he had for an enemy nicocreon, the tyrant of cyprus. |
eighteen. inscribe a square in a triangle having its base on a side of the triangle. |
nor did they give any account of 'combination': and they neglected almost every single one of the remaining problems, offering no explanation, e.g. of 'action' or 'passion' how in physical actions one thing acts and the other undergoes action. |
reject fb , which is common, and we have the rectangle ab.be bg ; but since be is equal to bc, the rectangle ab.be is equal to the figure ac. therefore bg is equal to the figure ac, and therefore equal to the given rectilineal figure (ten). |
but after you had been produced in the assembly by one of the tribunes of the people, and had replied that you had come on your own private business, you made even the people full of jokes against you. but, however, we have said too much about trifles. |
should be pleased to take the kingdome upon him. according whereunto, our saviour himself expressely saith, (john eighteen.thirty six.) "my kingdome is not of this world." |
one. for it admits of a different interpretation, when you are without a certain thing, and are sensible that you are without it, but yet can easily dispense with having it. |
to fathom this mystery did i go o'er the sea; and i have seen the truth naked, verily! barefooted up to the neck. |
in such cases, therefore, the determining principle of the choice must be empirical and, therefore, also the practical material principle which presupposes it as a condition. |
but though in these respects he differs from them, he is deeply penetrated by the spirit of their philosophy; he differs from them with reluctance, and gladly recognizes the 'generous depth' of parmenides (theaet.). |
what was the meaning of that south-sea exploring expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by |
if we undertake the war without preparation, we should by hastening its commencement only delay its conclusion: further, a free and a famous city has through all time been ours. |
the column which took the right-hand and the shorter route, inflicted greater loss on the enemy who met them, and ventured on a battle. |
by itself whilst he sleeps, without perceiving anything of it; no more than he has for the happiness or misery of a man in the indies, whom he knows not. |
rest, in parts only and by some external agency. |
for the matter and the infinite are contained inside what contains them, while it is the form which contains. |
thus it is manifestly absurd that the 'simple' bodies, though they are not transformable, are comparable not merely as 'corresponding', but by a measure of their powers; i.e. |
no sooner he, with them of man and beast select for life, shall in the ark be lodged, and sheltered round; but all the cataracts of heaven set open on the earth shall pour rain, day and night; all fountains of the deep, broke up, shall heave the ocean to |
if its constituents are nothings, then it might both come-to-be out of nothings and exist as a composite of nothings: and thus presumably the whole body will be nothing but an appearance. |
cor. one.-if a parallelogram be inscribed in a circle, its diagonals intersect at the centre of the circle. |
nails. for this purpose and for these reasons they caused skin, hair, and nails to grow at the extremities of the limbs. |
again, the 'now' which seems to bound the past and the future-does it always remain one and the same or is it always other and other? it is hard to say. |
(six) again, if the heaven is infinite and moves in a circle, we shall have to admit that in a finite time it has traversed the infinite. for suppose the fixed heaven infinite, and that which moves within it equal to it. |
ii. the angle which one plane makes with another is called a dihedral angle. |
by this doctrine, though an artist has made the spring and wheels, and every movement of a watch, and adjusted them in such a manner as he knew would produce the motions he designed, yet he must think all this done to no purpose, and that it is an |
five. describe a circle in the space acb, bounded by the line ab and the two circles. |
the sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was |
or that speech is a very excellent thing, since good men are not said to be worth money but to be worthy of esteem-the phrase 'worthy of esteem' also having the meaning of 'worth speech'. |
first; of weapons heav'n's hot thunderbolt; of cows white kamadhuk, from whose great milky udder-teats all hearts' desires are strook; vasuki of the serpent-tribes, round mandara entwined; and thousand-fanged ananta, on whose broad coils reclined leans |
consequences impossible to be explicated or made in our apprehensions consistent; consequences that carry greater difficulty, and more apparent absurdity, than anything can follow from the notion of an immaterial knowing substance. |
him, in every one of them, a grace and a charm. what euripides says, that |
"ut olim flagitiis, sic nunc legibus, laboramus." |
common glasses, no more than from a strange common hand: all metal offends me in comparison of a clear and transparent matter: let my eyes taste, too, according to their capacity. i owe several other such niceties to custom. |
are we to say 'bone comes-to-be if the "elements" be put together in such-and such a manner'? for, according to his own estatements, nothing comes-to-be from their 'fortuitous consilience', but only from their 'consilience' in a certain proportion. |
when all of them, both those who show themselves in the sky, and those who retire from view, had come into being, the creator addressed them thus:-'gods, sons of gods, my works, if i will, are indissoluble. |
account of the subject being a discreditable one. |
this axiom is included in the following, which is a fuller statement:- |
a fellow who rides through the narrow streets of a populous town with unemployed post-horses or cart-horses, unceasingly cracking with all his strength a whip several yards long, instantly deserves to dismount and receive five really good blows with a |
lines can be put together so that contact is linear by laying one along the other, though not by putting them end to end. |
which (for a 'hot') is cold and a cold which (for a 'cold') is hot; then what results from these two contraries will be neither their matter, nor either of them existing in its full reality without qualification. |
paneled, and asked his host whether the trees grew so in his country. |
fidenae he took, a neighboring city to rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down the hinges of the gates, himself afterwards unexpectedly coming up. |
their spreading out upon the earth flowing. |
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