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he, who was 'the last of the poets,' in his book of laws writes prose only; he has himself partly fallen under the rhetorical influences which in his earlier dialogues he was combating. |
euth. undoubtedly it is a beautiful appliance. (twenty eight) |
three. look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully apprehended it. |
above all, they will use their best endeavours that every one shall be protected in the possession of his own property by the fair administration of the law and the courts, that the poorer classes shall not be oppressed because of their helplessness, and |
in fact, however, fire and air, and each of the bodies we have mentioned, are not simple, but blended. the 'simple' bodies are indeed similar in nature to them, but not identical with them. |
been compelled, by reason of the factions and troubles which he found stirring in his own country when he came home, to attend to other matters, in my opinion he would have been as famous as homer or hesiod, or any poet. |
the synthesis of our representations rests upon the imagination; their synthetical unity (which is requisite to a judgement), upon the unity of apperception. |
they were at first mixed together; but already in the chaos, before god fashioned them by form and number, the greater masses of the elements had an appointed place. into the confusion (greek) which preceded plato does not attempt further to penetrate. |
since circular motion is not the contrary of the reverse circular motion, we must consider why there is more than one motion, though we have to pursue our inquiries at a distance-a distance created not so much by our spatial position as by the fact that |
"omnino si quidquam est decorum, nihil est profecto magis, quam aequabilitas universae vitae, tum singularum actionum, quam conservare non possis, si, aliorum naturam imitans, omittas tuam." |
if it enters not into us by an extraordinary infusion; if it enters not only by reason, but, moreover, by human ways, it is not in us in its true dignity and splendour: and yet, i am afraid, we only have it by this way. |
these, then, proceeding by a combination of probability with demonstration, we assume to be the original elements of fire and the other bodies; but the principles which are prior to these god only knows, and he of men who is the friend of god. |
academic, were sent as ambassadors by the athenians to our senate. |
i then killed itymoneus, the valiant son of hypeirochus, a dweller in elis, as i was driving in the spoil; he was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defence of his cows, so he fell and the country people around him were in |
here is a question which we must not leave unexamined or undetermined, nor must we affirm too confidently that there can be no decision; neither must we interpolate in our present long discourse a digression equally long, but if it is possible to set |
socrates: and how many spaces are there in this section? |
we are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice. |
two. the rectangle contained by the chord of an arc and the chord of its supplement is equal to the rectangle contained by the radius and the chord of twice the supplement. |
on the other hand, that sylla should confirm to him his other dominions, and declare him a roman confederate. |
soc. no! for possibly to perform what is best appears to you to savour of freedom? and, again, to have some one over you who will prevent you doing the like seems a loss of freedom? |
cleinias: i think, stranger, that you are quite right in all that you have said and are saying about education. |
(it is best to interpret in this sense the common statement of the older writers that 'like moves to like'. for the words are not in every sense true to fact. |
he does not take words in their simple meaning or sentences in their natural connexion. he is thinking, not of the context in plato, but of the contemporary pythagorean philosophers and their wordy strife. |
suppose, then, that you and i endeavour to instruct and inform them what is the nature of this affection which they call 'being overcome by pleasure,' and which they affirm to be the reason why they do not always do what is best. |
(a) generation by change of shape would necessarily involve the assertion of atomic bodies. |
but if that is their character, it is impossible they should not be affected by one another: the 'slightly-hot indivisible', e.g. will inevitably suffer action from one which far exceeds it in heat. |
"myself do i offer unto my love, and my neighbour as myself"-such is the language of all creators. |
dominion, or subject to a king chosen by the emperor. peace, he reminded him, was equally for the interest of both, and it would be well for him not to look only at the present. |
now, in order to remove in the supposed case the apparent contradiction between freedom and the mechanism of nature in one and the same action, we must remember what was said in the critique of pure reason, or what follows therefrom; viz., that the |
would be sure to carry it against those who were rich and well known, and accustomed to serve the state in war. |
when they were thus roused and were demanding battle, their chiefs led them down into a plain named idistavisus. it winds between the visurgis and a hill range, its breadth varying as the river banks recede or the spurs of the hills project on it. |
table. for the pure concepts of the understanding must run parallel to these functions, as such concepts are nothing more than concepts of intuitions in general, so far as these are determined by one or other of these functions of judging, in themselves, |
remote in time into the same person, as well as it does the existences and actions of the immediately preceding moment: so that whatever has the consciousness of present and past actions, is the same person to whom they both belong. |
one hundred eighty nine khoinika , the usual daily allowance. |
chap. six. one. the master said, 'i have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. he who loved virtue, would esteem nothing above it. |
if a belongs to all b or to no b, and b may possibly not belong to some one hundred. for if the premiss bc is converted in respect of possibility, a syllogism results. |
ajax pierced diomed's round shield, but did not draw blood, for the cuirass beneath the shield protected him; thereon the son of tydeus from over his huge shield kept aiming continually at ajax's neck with the point of his spear, and the achaeans alarmed |
who had served under the hsia. likewise, the rise of the chou dynasty was due to lu ya |
the same winter the athenians purified delos, in compliance, it appears, with a certain oracle. it had been purified before by pisistratus the tyrant; not indeed the whole island, but as much of it as could be seen from the temple. |
again, when a few small particles, enclosed in many larger ones, are in process of decomposition and extinction, they only cease from their tendency to extinction when they consent to pass into the conquering nature, and fire becomes air and air water. |
we may distinguish generally between predicating b of a because it (a) is itself, and because it is something else; and particularly between place which is common and in which all bodies are, and the special place occupied primarily by each. |
he passed thither twice from that part of gaul which lies over against it, and in several battles which he fought, did more hurt to the enemy than service to himself, for the islanders were so miserably poor, that they had nothing worth being plundered |
but aristotle also thinks of nature as something fixed and immutable; and therefore sanctions the institution of slavery, which assumes that what men are that they will always be, and sets up an artificial barrier to their ever becoming anything else. |
true that their becoming or perishing is necessarily, like the becoming or perishing of a specific character or form, the result of the alteration of certain other things, e.g. |
dem.-since the lines are equal, if ab be applied to four hundred, so that the point a will coincide with one hundred, and the line ab with four hundred, the point b shall coincide with five hundred; and because the segments are similar, they must coincide |
are capable of it, and who they that can give it, and take it away? |
i mean by 'capable of building' that which can build, and by 'capable of seeing' that which can see, and by 'visible' that which can be seen. |
crito: yes; the meaning is only too clear. but, oh! my beloved socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape. |
thus we have explained that all the compound bodies are composed of all the 'simple' bodies. |
did any one ever die in battle from the bite or kick of a horse? it is the men, the real swordsmen, who do whatever is done in battles. |
xiii. when the sum of two angles bac, cad is such that the legs ba, ad form one right line, they are called supplements of each other. |
for the expected result does not take place when a body is placed as a whole in a place conceived of as separate and permanent; for a part of it, unless it be placed apart, will not be in a place but in the whole. |
what linked us once together, one hope's tie-- (who now doth con those lines, now fading, love once wrote thereon?)-- is like a parchment, which the hand is shy to touch--like crackling leaves, all seared, all dry. |
in the third figure when the conclusion is converted into its contrary, neither of the premisses can be refuted in any of the syllogisms, but when the conclusion is converted into its contradictory, both premisses may be refuted and in all the moods. |
the retreat demanded they refused publicly to the army; but permission to depart without delay was secretly granted to the mantineans and to menedaius and the other commanders and principal men of the peloponnesians by demosthenes and his acarnanian |
(a) this king, they said, got great wealth of silver, which none of the kings born after him could surpass or even come near to; and wishing to store his wealth in safety he caused to be built a chamber of stone, one of the walls whereof was towards the |
of familiar spirits, or by superstitious divination of events past, from false causes, to foretell the like events in time to come: of which (as i have declared already in the twelve. |
"terrigenam, herbigradam, domiportam, sanguine cassam." |
which, like some other analogies in the republic, is carried too far. |
let us then apply the term 'heavy' to that which naturally moves towards the centre, and 'light' to that which moves naturally away from the centre. |
helice, pompeii, herculaneum, and others innumerable are dead and gone. run them over also, whom thou thyself, one after another, hast known in thy time to drop away. |
two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of |
which plato characteristically designates as a number concerned with human life, because nearly equivalent to the number of days and nights in the year. |
the flesh returns again into the blood. worst of all and most fatal is the disease of the marrow, by which the whole course of the body is reversed. there is a third class of diseases which are produced, some by wind and some by phlegm and some by bile. |
it merely causes us to take pleasure in engaging in such criticism, and it gives to virtue or the disposition that conforms to moral laws a form of beauty, which is admired, but not on that account sought after (laudatur et alget); as everything the |
on their way home they sinned against minerva,fifty two who raised both wind and waves against them, so that all his brave companions perished, and he alone was carried hither by wind and tide. |
forty three. if from the extremities of a diameter ab of a semicircle two chords ad, be be drawn, meeting in one hundred, ac.ad bc.be ab . |
and one told him, that it was the statue of autolycus, the founder of the city. |
twenty nine. if r denote the radius of o and , , the radii of o, o, dd : ab :: (r)(r) : r , the choice of sign depending on the nature of the contacts. this follows from twenty eight. |
as every one was lending a hand to trick up his daughter and to adorn her with ornaments and jewels to render her more agreeable to this new lover, he also gave her a handkerchief most richly wrought, and of an exquisite perfume, an implement they never |
two. exercise one has been proved by quoting proposition iii. prove it independently, and prove iii. as an inference from it. |
present servitude and a punishment that threatened him, (according to plato's phrase) grew valiant purely out of fear, and dreading the extremest inflictions, attempted great enterprises out of mere necessity. |
thought was true of any similar project for reforming the body of the sciences, or the order of teaching them established in the schools: but as for the opinions which up to that time i had embraced, i thought that i could not do better than resolve at |
(two) we have now explained that the mutual transformations of the elements cannot take place by means of excretion. |
two. since a proportion consists of two equal ratios, and each ratio can be written as a fraction, whenever we have a proportion such as |
no one is despised by others unless he be previously despised by himself: a grovelling and abject mind may fall an easy prey to such contempt: but he who stands up against the most cruel misfortunes, and overcomes those evils by which others would have |
afterwards, men made use of the same word metaphorically, for the knowledge of their own secret facts, and secret thoughts; and therefore it is rhetorically said that the conscience is a thousand witnesses. |
intuition from the spontaneity which characterizes every act of imagination. for merely to imagine also an external sense, would annihilate the faculty of intuition itself which is to be determined by the imagination. |
will be completed and conversely twice as much alteration will occupy twice as much time: and the alteration of half of its object will occupy half as much time and in half as much time half of the object will be altered: or again, in the same amount of |
hence the point f must be the centre; and the circle described from f as centre, with fa as radius, will be the circle required. |
never mind my mother, nor any of the other servants in the house; but i know you will not do what i say, for you are more fond of eating things yourself than of giving them to other people." |
but i cannot attend to my philosophical studies. and for what purpose do you follow them? slave, is it not that you may be happy, that you may be constant, is it not that you may be in a state conformable to nature and live so? |
relation to the former as a real one. we have, however, shown in its place that community is the proper ground of the possibility of an empirical cognition of coexistence, and that we may therefore properly reason from the latter to the former as its |
his bitter temper. we should see this most clearly, if it were possible that some god should carry us away from these haunts of men, and place us somewhere in perfect solitude, and then should supply us in abundance with everything necessary to our |
this is evident; for when air is produced from water, the same matter has become something different, not by acquiring an addition to it, but has become actually what it was potentially, and, again, water is produced from air in the same way, the change |
polypus are torn when some one plucks it from its bed, and the stones come up along with it-even so did the rocks tear the skin from his strong hands, and then the wave drew him deep down under the water. |
"since contraries are other in form, and the perishable and the imperishable are contraries (for privation is a determinate incapacity), the perishable and the imperishable must be different in kind. |
he ought, then, either to have defined or to have postulated these characteristic movements, or to have demonstrated them-whether strictly or laxly or in some other fashion. |
upon the scythians, because they had first invaded the median land and had overcome in fight those who opposed them; and thus they had been the beginners of wrong. |
two hundred five eademque constituendarum legum fuit causa, quae regum. forty two ius enim semper est quaesitum aequabile; neque enim aliter esset ius. |
according to due forms; or else it is left to his prudence to call them by new elections, when the occasions or exigencies of the public require the amendment of old, or making of new laws, or the redress or prevention of any inconveniencies, that lie on, |
all was known to caesar, and when maximus soon afterwards died, by a death some thought to be self-inflicted, there were heard at his funeral wailings from marcia, in which she reproached herself for having been the cause of her husband's destruction. |
but fall out what will, i am content the world may know, when i am fallen, from what i fell. |
and therefore presupposes a previous state of unity and combination. |
dem.-because the line ae stands on four hundred, the sum of the angles cea, aed is two right angles xiii. |
forty. to one class of men you will say, "beware, lest your anger give pleasure to your foes:" to the other, "beware lest your greatness of mind and the reputation it bears among most people for strength become impaired. |
i do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, i never found it clear enough and free from clouds; moreover, sleep, when it is profound, sometimes rocks even dreams themselves asleep; but our waking is never so sprightly that it rightly |
these may be the figures best adapted to movement; they are not, however, well adapted to the movement of fire, which is an upward and rectilinear movement, but rather to that form of circular movement which we call rolling. |
wherein i pretend not to advance any position of my own, but onely to shew what are the consequences that seem to me deducible from the principles of christian politiques, (which are the holy scriptures,) in confirmation of the power of civill soveraigns, |
i have heard pericles and other great orators, and i thought that they spoke well, but i never had any similar feeling; my soul was not stirred by them, nor was i angry at the thought of my own slavish state. |
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