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having in hand a case so just and so favourable, you did all in your power to put the business in good trim; and matters being so well situated, i beg you to excuse my absence for some little time longer, and i will abridge my stay so far as the pressure |
comparatively credible in a woman, who in her girlish years had allowed herself to be seduced by lepidus in the hope of winning power, had stooped with a like ambition to the lust of pallas, and had trained herself for every infamy by her marriage with |
since then, relatives are neither themselves alterations nor the subjects of alteration or of becoming or in fact of any change whatever, it is evident that neither states nor the processes of losing and acquiring states are alterations, though it may be |
a dream, say of all existence that it must of necessity be in some place and occupy a space, but that what is neither in heaven nor in earth has no existence. |
commonwealth, and the object of life, placing the chief happiness of man in pleasure, and declining public affairs as an injury and disturbance of a happy life, removing the gods afar off both from kindness or anger, or any concern for us at all, to a |
"thence the sad ones occupy the next abodes, who, though free from guilt, were by their own hands slain, and, hating light, sought death."--aeneid, vi. four hundred thirty four. |
it appears, in fact, that if i am bound to do no injury to my fellow-creatures, this is less because they are rational than because they are sentient beings: and this quality, being common both to men and beasts, ought to entitle the latter at least to |
sorrow is a grief arising from deliberate thought, which endures for some time, and gradually increases. anguish is a grief with acute pain. confusion is an irrational grief, which frets one, and prevents one from clearly discerning present circumstances. |
he seems to me to have had a right and true apprehension of the power of custom, who first invented the story of a country-woman who, having accustomed herself to play with and carry a young calf in her arms, and daily continuing to do so as it grew up, |
two apb in p, but it touches it (hyp.) also in p, which is impossible. hence the centre of the smaller circle cpd must be in the line op. |
is equal to the rectangle contained by the perpendiculars on either pair of opposite sides. |
aristarchus answered: yes, socrates, i am in sore straits indeed. |
bac. therefore edf is equiangular to bac. |
as the wasp stings and hurts another, but most of all itself, for it there loses its sting and its use for ever, |
form his judgment, and to make us sensible that he has thence become more skillful in his art. as in a concert of instruments, we do not hear a lute, a harpsichord, or a flute alone, but one entire harmony, the result of all together. |
we have therefore to discuss the whole subject of 'unqualified' coming-to-be and passingaway; we have to inquire whether these changes do or do not occur and, if they occur, to explain the precise conditions of their occurrence. |
and unseen to the visible and corporeal. there is the same distinction between knowledge and opinion which occurs in the theaetetus and republic, the same enmity to the poets, the same combination of music and gymnastics. |
one thousand. cato sententiam dixit, huius nostri catonis pater (ut enim ceteri ex patribus, sic hic, qui illud lumen progenuit ex filio est nominandus)--is igitur iudex ita pronuntiavit: "cum in vendendo rem eam scisset et non pronuntiasset, emptori |
for great as was the advancing and retiring flood which provided nourishment, the affections produced by external contact caused still greater tumult-when the body of any one met and came into collision with some external fire, or with the solid earth or |
two. he also was a pythagorean; and he it was who saved plato's life by means of a letter, when he was in danger of being put to death by dionysius. |
having observed that they held good in a few instances, they applied them everywhere; and in the complexity, of which they were capable, found the explanation of the equally complex phenomena of the universe. |
but' (just as empedocles and some of the other philosophers say that things suffer action through their pores, so) 'all "alteration" and all "passion" take place in the way that has been explained: breaking-up (i.e. |
the tyrant aristion had his very being compounded of wantonness and cruelty, having gathered into himself all the worst of mithridates's diseased and vicious qualities, like some fatal malady which the city, after its deliverance from innumerable wars, |
and what he took, took back; a phrase to please the very fancy of demosthenes. |
four of the integer, and we have just shown that it is equal to six eight. hence three four six eight; but six eight would be got from three four by multiplying its terms (numerator and denominator) by two. |
the body which is diseased from the effects of fire is in a continual fever; when air is the agent, the fever is quotidian; when water, the fever intermits a day; when earth, which is the most sluggish element, the fever intermits three days and is with |
if, in accordance with what i before said, their land below memphis (for this is that which is increasing) shall continue to increase in height according to the same proportion as in past time, assuredly those egyptians who dwell here will suffer famine, |
empirically knowable. the possibility of such a supersensible system of nature, the conception of which can also be the ground of its reality through our own free will, does not require any a priori intuition (of an intelligible world) which, being in |
does it belong then to the same or to different sciences to know each severally? |
having done that, they proceeded to make their breakfasts. |
at bologna, the emperor gave the pope opportunity to come thither first, and came himself after; for which the reason given was this, that at all the interviews of such princes, the greater ought to be first at the appointed place, especially before the |
dem.-if bd be not the continuation of cb, let be be its continuation. |
therefore the two sides ac, four hundred in one are equal to the two sides bc, four hundred in the other; and the angle acd is equal to the angle bcd (const.). therefore the base ad is equal to the base db iv. . hence ab is bisected in five hundred. |
curiosity is vicious throughout; but 'tis pernicious here. |
therefore a true and unfeigned christian is not liable to excommunication; nor he also that is a professed christian, till his hypocrisy appear in his manners, that is, till his behaviour bee contrary to the law of his soveraign, which is the rule of |
two. if two intersecting planes be respectively perpendicular to two intersecting lines, the line of intersection of the former is normal to the plane of the latter. |
when he was waiting at court, in speaking with the great officers of the lower grade, he spake freely, but in a straightforward manner; in speaking with those of the higher grade, he did so blandly, but precisely. two. |
mardonios however sailing along the coast of asia came to ionia: and here i shall relate a thing which will be a great marvel to those of the hellenes who do not believe that to the seven men of the persians otanes declared as his opinion that the |
dem.-since the two triangles adc, acb have the angle a common, and the angles adc, acb equal, each being right, they are i. xxxii. equiangular; hence iv. they are similar. in like manner it may be proved that bdc is similar to abc. |
thus five hundred and twenty-eight myriads three thousand two hundred and twenty one hundred eighty eight was the number of men whom xerxes son of dareios led as far as sepias and thermopylai. |
therefore the forms will be substance; but the same terms indicate substance in this and in the ideal world (or what will be the meaning of saying that there is something apart from the particulars-the one over many?). |
this is evidently equivalent to saying that a side of the first is to a side of the second in the reciprocal ratio of the remaining side of the first to the remaining side of the second. |
bn the platonic doctrine of ideas known in a previous existence and gradually developing into renewed consciousness. learning is but a remembering of what the soul has known before. |
three. a right line intersecting parallel planes makes equal angles with them. |
four. it shall not be lawful to take up arms, with intent to do hurt, either for the lacedaemonians and their allies against the athenians and their allies, or for the athenians and their allies against the lacedaemonians and their allies, in any way or |
because fire is mobile and productive of heat and combustion, some made it a sphere, others a pyramid. |
then capricorn, with half the form of beast, breathes chill and piercing colds from his strong breast, and in a spacious circle takes his round; when him, while in the winter solstice bound, the sun has visited with constant light, he turns his course, |
all. but he makes only one or two steps forward on this path; he nowhere attains to any connected system of ideas, or even to a knowledge of the most elementary relations of the sciences to one another. |
himself in such a state; and that, if we give such credit to the writings of moses as every christian philosopher ought to give, we must deny that, even before the deluge, men were ever in the pure state of nature; unless, indeed, they fell back into it |
of two hundred ships, and be commander-in-chief abroad, with a design to reduce the king of persia's territories, and that pericles should have the power at home. |
right over the town. the people wondered as they saw them, and asked each other what all this might be; whereon halitherses, who was the best prophet and reader of omens among them, spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying: |
therefore kl is parallel to cf. similarly, fifty one is parallel to ch, and ki to fh; hence the triangles kli, fch are homothetic. hence the lines joining corresponding vertices are concurrent. therefore the points i, h, g are collinear. |
but this will make no difference to the production of a syllogism in either case; for both the demonstrator and the dialectician argue syllogistically after stating that something does or does not belong to something else. |
gemeter . one hundred forty six again, he ( qui magna vorteret ) "who brings about mighty changes" is called mavors; and minerva is so called because ( minueret , or minaretur ) she diminishes or menaces. |
and, secondly, the same theory which composes solids of planes clearly composes planes of lines and lines of points, so that a part of a line need not be a line. |
although persisting as the same body, is now healthy and now ill; and the bronze is now spherical and at another time angular, and yet remains the same bronze. |
upon which one of the tribunes impeached him for profaning the holy rites, and some of the principal senators combined together and gave evidence against him, that besides many other horrible crimes, he had been guilty of incest with his own sister, who |
in one instance, on a line arbitrarily chosen, the depth did not vary more than one foot in thirty rods; and generally, near the middle, i could calculate the variation for each one hundred feet in any direction beforehand within three or four inches. |
"the maid ripe for marriage delights to learn ionic dances, and to imitate those lascivious movements. nay, already from her infancy she meditates criminal amours."--horace, od., iii. six, twenty one., the text has 'fingitur'. |
theaetetus: how do the two expressions differ? |
another, on both accounts we should naturally be led to place in the front rank the study of the soul. |
defendant's guilt. here there is no genuine enthymeme: the hearer infers guilt or innocence, but no proof is given, and the inference is fallacious accordingly. |
repayment there, turning and, pointing to callicles, the money-lender. being still clamored upon and importuned, he told them this tale. |
removed from spinoza by less than a generation is the philosopher leibnitz, who after deepening and intensifying the opposition between mind and matter, reunites them by his preconcerted harmony (compare again phaedrus). |
understanding he should. the rewards and punishments of another life which the almighty has established, as the enforcements of his law, are of weight enough to determine the choice against whatever pleasure or pain this life can show, where the eternal |
"endeavour to make circumstances subject to me, and not me subject to circumstances." --horace, ep., i. i, nineteen. |
but it is a common topic to urge against the man who seeks to avail himself of a demurrer to an action, that he is fleeing from a decision and from punishment, because he has no confidence in the justice of his cause. |
you have everything at your disposal wherewith to entertain guests, and you have many subjects. |
then the old woman took the cauldron in which she was going to wash his feet, and poured plenty of cold water into it, adding hot till the bath was warm enough. |
the mind, having got the idea of the length of any part of expansion, let it be a span, or a pace, or what length you will, can, as has been said, repeat that idea, and so, adding it to the former, enlarge its idea of length, and make it equal to two |
with fear yet linked; which thus to eve his welcome words renewed. |
seventy one. demaratos being deposed, leotychides the son of menares succeeded to the kingdom; and he had born to him a son zeuxidemos, whom some of the spartans called kyniscos. |
we have the ideas but of three sorts of substances: one. god. two. finite intelligences. three. bodies. |
stuerenburg : one thousand. tullii ciceronis de officiis libri three. recensuit r. stuerenburg. accedit commentarius. lipsiae, one thousand eight hundred forty three. |
between one, three, nine, twenty seven), together with the mean terms and connecting links which are expressed by the ratios of three:two, and four:three, and of nine:eight-these, although they cannot be wholly undone except by him who united them, were |
thereby had the dog been terrified: for dogs believe in thieves and ghosts. and when i again heard such howling, then did it excite my commiseration once more. |
presence of the brown sunsets of the desert, whose soul is akin to the palm-tree, and can be at home and can roam with big, beautiful, lonely beasts of prey... |
in general, when a number of similar and undifferentiated bodies are moved with the same motion this result is necessarily produced, viz. that the place which is the natural goal of the movement of each single part is also that of the whole. |
forty one. two lines are given in position: draw a transversal through a given point, forming with the given lines a triangle of given perimeter. |
she turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went |
when what surrounds, then, is not separate from the thing, but is in continuity with it, the thing is said to be in what surrounds it, not in the sense of in place, but as a part in a whole. |
the 'now' is the link of time, as has been said (for it connects past and future time), and it is a limit of time (for it is the beginning of the one and the end of the other). but this is not obvious as it is with the point, which is fixed. |
iii., are so related, that any one being proved directly, the other two follow by the rule of identity. |
these, whenever a corpse is conveyed to them, show to those who brought it wooden models of corpses made like reality by painting, and the best of the ways of embalming they say is that of him whose name i think it impiety to mention when speaking of a |
nor have all men had the same reasons for leaving their country and for seeking for a new one: some have escaped from their cities when destroyed by hostile armies, and having lost their own lands have been thrust upon those of others: some have been cast |
this form the macedonians thinking the more reasonable, swore eumenes according to it, and raised the siege, sending also to antigonus, that he should swear in the same form to eumenes. |
emendation here ( thop for thphm ) as well as supplying a strong confirmation of that adopted in ch. eighty nine. |
but caesar, upon the suggestion of a servant that it would not be difficult to surprise him, laid an ambush, which, rising up somewhat too hastily, seized the man that came just before him, he himself escaping narrowly by flight. |
evidence to show that the distinction of prime from other numbers was known to him. |
there is another evil:-the world does not like to lose the gifted nature, and so they flatter the young (alcibiades) into a magnificent opinion of his own capacity; the tall, proper youth begins to expand, and is dreaming of kingdoms and empires. |
the laws of transferring property belong also to the soveraign |
for what of analysis, that is, mere dissection of conceptions, is contained in one or other, is not the aim of, but only a preparation for metaphysics proper, which has for its object the extension, by means of synthesis, of our a priori knowledge. |
yes; and there is a further good in the law; viz. that if a man has a quarrel with another he will satisfy his resentment then and there, and not proceed to more dangerous lengths. |
we may say, then, in this matter that if the heavenly bodies moved in a generally diffused mass of air or fire, as every one supposes, their motion would necessarily cause a noise of tremendous strength and such a noise would necessarily reach and shatter |
you may consider your crimes as bringing you solid profit, while their punishment is nothing more than being called bad names. |
language here comes under discussion only in the special aspect of a product of intelligence for manifesting its ideas in an external medium. |
where they thought best; while their fleet sailed up to the beach and towed off the ships of the athenians. |
another method is for the people to meet in a collective body, but only for the purpose of holding the comitia, making laws, determining concerning war or peace, and inquiring into the conduct of their magistrates, while the remaining part of the public |
some perhaps among the persians and chinese as judicious as among ourselves, expediency seemed to dictate that i should regulate my practice conformably to the opinions of those with whom i should have to live; and it appeared to me that, in order to |
scipio. you judge most correctly. for what was the state of athens when, during the great peloponnesian war, she fell under the unjust domination of the thirty tyrants? |
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