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two of my acquaintance, great men in this faculty, have, in my opinion, lost half, in refusing to publish at forty years old, that they might stay till threescore. |
three months, whilst aratus held firm, and was in dispute with himself whether he should call in antigonus upon condition of delivering up the citadel of corinth to him; for he would not lend him assistance upon any other terms. |
the sentry with the other guards. and at the same time the ladders were clapped to the walls, and aratus, having in great haste got up a hundred men, commended the rest to follow as they could, and immediately drawing up his ladders after him, he marched |
of the wine's being wine, and the wine will be in the jar in virtue not of its being a jar but of the jar's being a jar. |
solution. 'tis true the sophism seems to lie in this, yet tho i cannot conceive a mountain but with a vally , it does not from hence follow, that a mountain or vally do exist , but this will follow, that whether a mountain or a vally do or do not exist , |
that again, he said, i do not quite understand. |
again chose men of the babylonians and led them out and slew the two thousand men of the troops of dareios. seeing this deed also, the babylonians all had the name of zopyros upon their tongues, and were loud in his praise. |
just as neglect of dress betrays contempt for the society in which a man moves, so does a hasty, careless, and bad style show shocking disrespect for the reader, who then rightly punishes it by not reading the book. |
whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. |
hence, sector boc : sector epf :: arc bc : arc ef. |
perhaps we may state the case thus: there is nothing to prevent each of the two parts, or at any rate one of them, that which is moved, being divisible though actually undivided, so that if it is divided it will not continue in the possession of the same |
thirty five. describe a circle which shall-(one) pass through a given point, and touch two given circles; (two) touch three given circles. |
for if even bare soul is the animal or the living thing, or the soul of each individual is the individual itself, and 'being a circle' is the circle, and 'being a right angle' and the essence of the right angle is the right angle, then the whole in one |
and that it is more respectful and more civil to stay at home to receive him, if only upon the account of missing him by the way, and that it is enough to receive him at the door, and to wait upon him. |
at qui se locupletes, honoratos, beatos putant, ii ne obligari quidem beneficio volunt; quin etiam beneficium se dedisse arbitrantur, cum ipsi quamvis magnum aliquod acceperint, atque etiam a se aut postulari aut exspectari aliquid suspicantur, patrocinio |
if a whole magnitude be to another whole at a magnitude taken from the first it to a magnitude taken from the second, the first remainder : the second remainder :: the first whole : the second whole. |
again, these are divided into rational and irrational; those which are rational belong to animals capable of reason; those which are irrational to animals destitute of reason. |
live if he becomes the slave of a passion. are you not ashamed to put virtues under the patronage of vices? |
obliged to do neither the one nor the other. |
and therefore i must explain the origin of this pain, that is to say, the cause that occasions this grief in the mind, as if it were a sickness of the body. |
appeared. caesar having had intimation of this, and seeing the germans lie still, thought it expedient to attack them whilst they were under these apprehensions, rather than sit still and wait their time. |
to this telemachus answered, "by jove, agelaus, and by the sorrows of my unhappy father, who has either perished far from ithaca, or is wandering in some distant land, i throw no obstacles in the way of my mother's marriage; on the contrary i urge her to |
again, there is the case of those who have been thrown down precipices and lost their arms; and of those who at sea, and in stormy places, have been suddenly overwhelmed by floods of water; and there are numberless things of this kind which one might |
four. when is a circle said to be inscribed in a rectilineal figure? |
the books of the kings, and the chronicles |
but afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. |
"even if he had wished you to set fire to the capitol?" said i. "that is a thing," he replied, "that he never would have wished." "ah, but if he had wished it?" said i. "i would have obeyed." the wickedness of such a speech needs no comment. |
use; so much was his old-fashioned virtue out of the present mode, among the depraved customs which time and luxury had introduced, that it appeared indeed remarkable and wonderful, but was too great and too good to suit the present exigencies, being so |
the like is true of the other sciences. there is a limit, then, to the questions which we may put to each man of science; nor is each man of science bound to answer all inquiries on each several subject, but only such as fall within the defined field of |
multitude of believers in a crowd best virtue i have has in it some tincture of vice better at speaking than writing--motion and action animate word better have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a num better to be alone than in foolish and |
one. if one of two similar triangles has its sides fifty per cent. longer than the homologous sides of the other; what is the ratio of their areas? |
there is to be no gold or silver among them, and they are to have moderate wealth, and to respect number and numerical order in all things. |
went up, and watered all the ground, and each plant of the field; which, ere it was in the earth, god made, and every herb, before it grew on the green stem: god saw that it was good: so even and morn recorded the third day. |
one more aspect of the timaeus remains to be considered-the mythological or geographical. |
pocket, and afterwards denied the fact, but was convicted and crucified. cleopatra's children, with their attendants, had a guard set on them, and were treated very honorably. |
to which it may be added, that their language is soft, of a pleasing accent, and something bordering upon the greek termination. |
he summoned therefore the commanders of the divisions and the generals of those hellenes who were with him, and asked whether they knew of any oracle regarding the persians, which said that they should be destroyed in hellas; and when those summoned to |
this is an identical substratum (whether a point or a stone or something else of the kind), but it has different attributes as the sophists assume that coriscus' being in the lyceum is a different thing from coriscus' being in the market-place. |
nor that he is moved, or resteth: for both these attributes ascribe to him place: |
friendship, wherein it happens, as with ivy, that it decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but a sound and regular friendship, equally useful and pleasant. |
anything then which always exists is absolutely imperishable. it is also ungenerated, since if it was generated it will have the power for some time of not being. |
and this is what we must do in the present instance: a strange discussion on the subject of law has arisen, which requires the utmost consideration, and we should not at our age be too ready to speak about such great matters, or be confident that we can |
(plato of course, if we may digress, ought to tell us why the form and the numbers are not in place, if 'what participates' is place-whether what participates is the great and the small or the matter, as he called it in writing in the timaeus.) |
in general, the view that there is an infinite body is plainly incompatible with the doctrine that there is necessarily a proper place for each kind of body, if every sensible body has either weight or lightness, and if a body has a natural locomotion |
although absolutely in motion, they are relatively at rest; or we may conceive of them as resting, while the space in which they are contained, or the whole anima mundi, revolves. |
well, you know of course that the greater is relative to the less? |
but condensation and rarefaction are nothing more than combination and separation, processes in accordance with which substances are said to become and perish: and in being combined and separated things must change in respect of place. |
if the intermediates are infinite in number, as they must be if the 'elements' are infinitely many: further (ii) there will not even be a transformation of air into fire, if the contrarieties are infinitely many: moreover (iii) all the 'elements' become |
or again, if in the diagram, proposition viii., ad ten, and ac y , ab will be the third proportional. hence may be inferred a method of continuing the proportion to any number of terms. |
see further whether, instead of both being found in one class of predicates, the one signifies a quality and the other a quantity or relation. |
dust return. so judged he man, both judge and saviour sent; and the instant stroke of death, denounced that day, removed far off; then, pitying how they stood before him naked to the air, that now must suffer change, disdained not to begin thenceforth the |
athenian: good; and what measures ought the legislator to have then taken in order to avert this calamity? |
there are, for example, first, flame; and secondly, those emanations of flame which do not burn but only give light to the eyes; thirdly, the remains of fire, which are seen in red-hot embers after the flame has been extinguished. |
hearers. therefore this topic, which is of very wide extent and application, is often employed by philosophers in discussions on duty, not when they are discussing abstract right, for that is but one thing and the grammarians also too often employ it when |
but since that which sinks to the bottom of all things moves to the centre, necessarily that which rises to the surface moves to the extremity of the region in which the movement of these bodies takes place. |
but, leaving this enquiry, let us proceed to distribute the elementary forms, which have now been created in idea, among the four elements. |
vi.) that everyone endeavours to preserve his being. moreover, this proposition is plain from four. xxii. |
again, if length and time could thus be composed of indivisibles, they could be divided into indivisibles, since each is divisible into the parts of which it is composed. but, as we saw, no continuous thing is divisible into things without parts. |
the movement has these attributes because the distance is of this nature, and the time has them because of the movement. |
five. ac is the side of a regular pentagon inscribed in the circle acd, and eb the side of a regular pentagon inscribed in the circle bde. |
what is strangest of all, he only may swear and forswear himself (so men say), and the gods will forgive his transgression, for there is no such thing as a lover's oath. |
one. if an integer be divided into any number of equal parts, one, or the sum of any number of these parts, is called a fraction. |
accompanied with proper means, are generally able to succeed by force: for victory is always owing to a superiority in some advantageous circumstances; so that it seems that force never prevails but in consequence of great abilities. |
was conducted to a little town upon the river po; where he was slain the next day by geminius, in execution of pompey's commands. |
the marrow itself is created out of other materials: god took such of the primary triangles as were straight and smooth, and were adapted by their perfection to produce fire and water, and air and earth-these, i say, he separated from their kinds, and |
this view has the great advantage of exhibiting morality as essentially reasonable, but the accompanying disadvantage of lowering it into a somewhat prosaic and unideal prudentialism, nor is it saved from this by the tacking on to it, by a sort of |
the dogma of hegesias, "that we are neither to hate nor accuse, but instruct," is correct elsewhere; but here 'tis injustice and inhumanity to relieve and set him right who stands in no need on't, and is the worse for't. |
"it is very likely you may not," was his answer; "and be sure that one thing which makes me somewhat anxious to recover, and to delay my journey to that place, whither i am already half-way gone, is the thought of the loss both you and that poor man and |
political power, which is developed similarly, but earlier than philosophy, from religion, exhibits the onesidedness, which in the actual world may infect its implicitly true idea, as demoralisation. |
when it was told him that antony and dolabella designed some disturbance, "it is not," said he, "the fat and the long-haired men that i fear, but the pale and the lean," meaning brutus and cassius. |
at this, advancing, turnus hurl'd his spear: the phantom wheel'd, and seem'd to fly for fear. deluded turnus thought the trojan fled, and with vain hopes his haughty fancy fed. "whether, o coward?" |
those who had joined in the invasion, though many times more numerous than those of the enemy, had mostly followed unarmed, as part of the levy in mass of the citizens and foreigners at athens, and having started first on their way home were not present |
and take their ease, while the other seven were fighting. and this is the reason, they say, that people, when at any time they have been merry, and enjoyed themselves, call it white day, in allusion to this white bean. |
these yet, by their presumed and apparent equality, serve as well to reckon time by (though not to measure the parts of duration exactly) as if they could be proved to be exactly equal. |
athenian: then thought and attention and mind and art and law will be prior to that which is hard and soft and heavy and light; and the great and primitive works and actions will be works of art; they will be the first, and after them will come nature and |
hearing this croesus sent certain of the lydians to delphi, enjoining them to lay the fetters upon the threshold of the temple and to ask the god whether he felt no shame that he had incited croesus by his prophecies to march upon the persians, persuading |
then if the alteration to white and from white is a continuous process and the white does not remain any time, there must have occurred simultaneously a perishing of not-white, a becoming of white, and a becoming of not-white: for the time of the three |
i have said enough in answer to the charge of meletus: any elaborate defence is unnecessary, but i know only too well how many are the enmities which i have incurred, and this is what will be my destruction if i am destroyed;-not meletus, nor yet anytus, |
since they had solemnly sworn the maintenance of his institutions until his return. |
all, on the other hand, who looked to the fact that what has soul in it knows or perceives what is, identify soul with the principle or principles of nature, according as they admit several such principles or one only. |
the rugged grandeur of the opening discourse of timaeus may be compared with the more harmonious beauty of a similar passage in the phaedrus. |
considered hereafter: we are now got so far on our way as to show that we have the testimony of the ancients in our favour, by what they have delivered down upon education--for music makes this plain. |
'are you aware, athenian, that our family is your proxenus at sparta, and that from my boyhood i have regarded athens as a second country, and having often fought your battles in my youth, i have become attached to you, and love the sound of the attic |
four. if we consider two magnitudes of the same kind, such as two lines ab, four hundred, and if we suppose that ab is equal to three four of four hundred, it is evident, if ab be divided into three equal parts, and four hundred into four equal parts, |
another dog being to guard a temple at athens, having spied a sacrilegious thief carrying away the finest jewels, fell to barking at him with all his force, but the warders not awaking at the noise, he followed him, and day being broke, kept off at a |
and, in earnest, one have often thought that by force of respect itself men use princes disdainfully and injuriously in that particular; for the thing i was infinitely offended at in my childhood, that they who exercised with me forbore to do their best |
that from danger there is no release. further, there is promptitude on their side against procrastination on yours; they are never at home, you are never from it: for they hope by their absence to extend their acquisitions, you fear by your advance to |
"my friend," answered nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king priam. |
of my mother i have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. |
or why, when they come into contact, do they not coalesce into one, as drops of water run together when drop touches drop (for the two cases are precisely parallel)? on the other hand (ii) if they fall into differing sets, how are these characterized? |
character was much sooner perceived in things of this sort, than in what is done publicly and in open day. |
two other points strike us in the use which the ancient philosophers made of numbers. |
the spinal marrow, including the brain, is formed out of the finest sorts of triangles, and is the connecting link between body and mind. |
therefore equality so defined will be 'the contrary of the privation of equality', so that he would have used the very word to be defined. |
the uttermost penalty will fall upon those who lay violent hands upon a parent, having no fear of the gods above, or of the punishments which will pursue them in the world below. |
but he turned all the blame upon nicias, charging it on his softness and cowardice, that the besieged were not yet taken. "were i general," said he, "they should not hold out so long." |
suggested. it is not impossible but that some may think my former notions right; and some (as i have already found) these latter; and some neither. |
acoetes on his pupil's corpse attends, with feeble steps, supported by his friends. |
beneath him with new wonder now he views, to all delight of human sense exposed, in narrow room, nature's whole wealth, yea more, a heaven on earth: for blissful paradise of god the garden was, by him in the east of eden planted; eden stretched her line |
now we must admit that heat naturally proceeds outward to its own place and to its kindred element; and as there are two exits for the heat, the one out through the body, and the other through the mouth and nostrils, when it moves towards the one, it |
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