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and so demetrius incurred no harm at all; antony procured his ruin by his marriage. on the other hand, no licentious act of antony's can be charged with that impiety which marks those of demetrius. |
whereas the several degrees of angels may probably have larger views; and some of them be endowed with capacities able to retain together, and constantly set before them, as in one picture, all their past knowledge at once. |
the following exercises are to be solved when the pupil has mastered the first book:- |
but yet i cannot but think there is some small dull perception, whereby they are distinguished from perfect insensibility. and that this may be so, we have plain instances, even in mankind itself. |
(ten) some think that these three hundred are three of the detached companies described above; others, that they were a picked corps in attendance on the commander-in-chief. |
but the jar of wine will: for the contents and the container are both parts of the same whole. |
at the same time he is less able to observe facts, because they are too much magnified by the glasses through which they are seen. |
so that when a book becomes famous one should carefully distinguish whether it is so on account of its matter or its form. |
at break of day clearchus gave the order to the hellenes to get under arms in line of battle, and take up exactly the same position as they held on the day of the battle. |
the difference between spontaneity and what results by chance is greatest in things that come to be by nature; for when anything comes to be contrary to nature, we do not say that it came to be by chance, but by spontaneity. |
so that to say that the things that come into being form a circle is to say that there is a circle of time; and this is to say that it is measured by the circular movement; for apart from the measure nothing else to be measured is observed; the whole is |
that it was the first of a trilogy, and that the second and third parts were called the prometheus freed , and prometheus the fire-bearer , respectively, is accepted: but the date of its performance is unknown. |
for when a man consorts with the many, and exhibits to them his poem or other work of art or the service which he has done the state, making them his judges when he is not obliged, the so-called necessity of diomede will oblige him to produce whatever |
fifty prosiskhon : some read proseskhon , "had put in." |
is it because they tend to disorder in government, as countenancing rebellion, or sedition? then let them be silenced, and the teachers punished by vertue of his power to whom the care of the publique quiet is committed; which is the authority civill. |
first, the error of supposing that the three dimensions of length, breadth, and height, are really commensurable with one another. |
that which has an excess of movement; for even the slow has a certain speed and the comparatively light a certain weight.) |
there is also an absurdity in attributing the upward movement of bodies to a void which does not itself move. |
you should try, moreover, to master the heads under which other arguments mostly tend to fall. |
nine.) commanded the burnt offering to be brought, and (one sam. fourteen. eighteen.) he commands the priest to bring the ark neer him; and (ver. nineteen.) again to let it alone, because he saw an advantage upon his enemies. |
after this a mysian came in with a light shield in either hand and danced, at one time going through a pantomime, as if he were dealing with two assailants at once; at another plying his shields as if to face a single foe, and then again he would whirl |
then he no longer led his men in the same order as before, but set off at a run, taking flight by the quickest way not to the palisade nor yet to the wall of the thebans, but towards phokis, desiring as quickly as possible to reach the hellespont.. |
but since 'nature' means a source of movement within the thing itself, while a force is a source of movement in something other than it or in itself qua other, and since movement is always due either to nature or to constraint, movement which is natural, |
but when this takes place in spatial magnitudes, what is taken perists, while in the succession of time and of men it takes place by the passing away of these in such a way that the source of supply never gives out. |
gylippus desired the corinthians to send him at once two ships to asine, and to prepare the rest that they intended to send, and to have them ready to sail at the proper time. having settled this, the envoys departed from lacedaemon. |
as a step towards settling which view is true, we must determine the meaning of the name. |
the simplest lines that can be drawn on a plane are the right line and circle, and the study of the properties of the point, the right line, and the circle, is the introduction to geometry, of which it forms an extensive and important department. |
one. if ac were equal to ab, the triangle acb would be isosceles, and then the angle b would be equal to one hundred v. ; but it is not by hypothesis; therefore ab is not equal to ac. |
condemned. though ostorius had stated that he had heard nothing as evidence, the adverse witnesses were believed, and junius marullus, consul-elect, proposed that the accused should be deprived of his praetorship, and be put to death in the ancient |
great-grandfather pompeius, his aunt scribonia, who had formerly been wife of augustus, his imperial cousins, his house crowded with ancestral busts, and urging him to extravagance and debt, himself the companion of his profligacy and desperate |
eighty nine see ch. one hundred eighty eight. nabunita was his true name. |
prop. fourteen. if the mind has once been affected by two emotions at the same time, it will, whenever it is afterwards affected by one of these two, be also affected by the other. |
your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me-and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed. |
own the english nation; and therefore 'tis likely that what comes from him may be more acceptable to his countrymen, then what proceeds from a stranger; and as the strength of a fortification is never better known then by a forcible resistance, so fares |
both as an individual and as a citizen, is a life of virtue, accompanied with those enjoyments which virtue usually procures. |
having its three angles equal to two right ones ) to a triangle, tho afterwards there were no such thing in the world, yet the name would still continue, and this proposition, a triangle is a figure having three angles equal to two right ones , would be |
they, our kinsfolk, came against their mother country, that is to say against us, together with the mede, and, instead of having the courage to revolt and sacrifice their property as we did when we abandoned our city, chose to be slaves themselves, and to |
not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrine which they themselves profess. |
four. how may lines be divided? ans. into straight and curved. |
consider then, socrates, if this narrative is suited to the purpose, or whether we should seek for some other instead. |
the concept of cause implies a rule, according to which one state follows another necessarily; but experience can only show us, that one state of things often, or at most, commonly, follows another, and therefore affords neither strict universality, nor |
from all that we have just been saying about the elements or kinds, the most probable conclusion is as follows:-earth, when meeting with fire and dissolved by its sharpness, whether the dissolution take place in the fire itself or perhaps in some mass of |
contemplation the life of man is as nothing to them, nor is death fearful. also they are of a social, gracious disposition, equally free from cowardice and arrogance. |
the commentary of proclus on the timaeus is a wonderful monument of the silliness and prolixity of the alexandrian age. it extends to about thirty pages of the book, and is thirty times the length of the original. |
(two) or, "against thracians with light shields and javelins, or against scythians with bows and arrows"; and for the national arms of these peoples respectively see arist. "lysistr." five hundred sixty three; "anab." three. iv. fifteen; six. seven. |
thus the two results will coincide: the infinite will have completed a motion over the finite and the finite will have traversed the infinite: for it would seem to be impossible for the motion of the infinite over the finite to occur in any way other than |
fourteen. the area of a circle is equal to half the rectangle contained by the circumference and the radius. this is evident by dividing the circle into elementary triangles, as in ex. eight. |
similarly if the premiss ba is not assumed universally. |
for they have nothing to do with the determination of the will; they only point out how a certain effect is to be produced and are, therefore, just as theoretical as any propositions which express the connection of a cause with an effect. |
first, then, let us take laws and see how they are to be used in persuasion and dissuasion, in accusation and defence. if the written law tells against our case, clearly we must appeal to the universal law, and insist on its greater equity and justice. |
and this shall suffice, (as to the matter in hand) of that naturall liberty, which only is properly called liberty. |
lay, and since thus likewise, if my writings possess any value, those into whose hands they may fall after my death may be able to put them to what use they deem proper. |
raised factions, and quarrelled among themselves, who should succeed caesar in the dignity of his high-priesthood, esteeming all as lightly, as if they were to engage only with tigranes, king of armenia, or some petty nabathaean king, not with that caesar |
here we have a thing which is essentially movable: and that which is so is a different thing according to the particular variety of motion: for instance it may be a thing capable of alteration: and within the sphere of alteration it is again a different |
ob is greater than oa; therefore the point one hundred is outside the circumference of the smaller circle. hence b cannot be common to both circles. in like manner, they cannot have any other common point but a. |
with a view to the attainment of this object, the pupil and his instructor are to use the lyre because its notes are pure; the voice and string should coincide note for note: nor should there be complex harmonies and contrasts of intervals, or variations |
domitius derived lustre from a father who during the civil war had been master of the sea, till he united himself to the party of antonius and afterwards to that of caesar. |
fire has a natural upward motion and an unnatural downward motion: is it, then, this unnatural downward motion or is it the natural downward motion of earth that is contrary to the natural upward motion? |
this series of numbers is the compound of the two pythagorean ratios, having the same intervals, though not in the same order, as the mixture which was originally divided in forming the soul of the world. |
if the centre be not in ac, let o be the centre. join ao. then because ab touches the circle, and oa is drawn from the centre to the point of contact, oa is at right angles to ab xviii. |
one say that, because you will first reach a middle next the subject, and a premiss asserting it of the whole subject, and after that a middle-the coagulation of sap or something of the sort-proving the connexion of the first middle with the major: but it |
however, this great outrage, committed too upon the person of the greatest and most considerable man in rome, was never either punished or inquired into thoroughly, for the populace opposed and hindered any judicial investigation, for fear that caius |
r rr , r rr , r rr , r rr , hence one thousand two hundred forty eight r . and it may be proved in the same manner that |
black-birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter; its cousin, the yellow birch, with its loose golden vest, perfumed like the first; the beech, which has so neat a bole and beautifully lichen-painted, perfect in all its details, |
fifty two. being given an obtuse-angled triangle, draw from the obtuse angle to the opposite side a line whose square shall be equal to the rectangle contained by the segments into which it divides the opposite side. |
suppose, then, that in a certain time an alteration is undergone by one half of a body's length and a locomotion is accomplished the other half: can be say that in this case the alteration is equal to the locomotion and of the same velocity? |
deceived, by too much trust, or by too much diffidence; as he that reads, is himselfe a good or evill man. |
when these processes take place in regular order the body is in health. |
meno: and i am certain that no one ever did teach him. |
experiences these and the like affections from both kinds of motions, the result is that the body if given up to motion when in a state of quiescence is overmastered and perishes; but if any one, in imitation of that which we call the foster-mother and |
and yet there were some who were very ready both to speak ill of cicero, and to do him hurt for these actions; and they had for their leaders some of the magistrates of the ensuing year, as caesar, who was one of the praetors, and metellus and bestia, the |
now, since the angle acb is equal to ecg, to each add bce, and we have the sum of the angles acb, bce equal to the sum of the angles ecg, bce; but the sum of acb, bce is i. xiii. two right angles. therefore the sum of ecg, bce is two right angles. |
observed. again if a given force move a given weight a certain distance in a certain time and half the distance in half the time, half the motive power will move half the weight the same distance in the same time. |
for every portion of earth has weight until it reaches the centre, and the jostling of parts greater and smaller would bring about not a waved surface, but rather compression and convergence of part and part until the centre is reached. |
lay this down, then, as a rule, that a great capacity, and lofty elevation of soul, which distinguishes itself most by despising and looking down with contempt on pain, is the most excellent of all things, and the more so if it does not depend on the |
it helped to form the utopia of sir thomas more and the new atlantis of bacon, although probably neither of those great men were at all imposed upon by the fiction. |
the means foolishly to make thereof our own profit. and those people abuse themselves who will pretend to dive into these mysteries by the strength of human reason. they never give one hit that they do not receive two for it; of which st. |
as, then, the frequent bearing of misery makes grief the lighter, we must necessarily perceive that the cause and original of it does not lie in the calamity itself. |
came to his house. as for instance, how one who was a practicer of the five games of skill, having with a dart or javelin unawares against his will struck and killed epitimus the pharsalian, his father spent a whole day with protagoras in a serious |
they get no good themselves, but others get good when they behold them enduring for ever the most terrible and painful and fearful sufferings as the penalty of their sins-there they are, hanging up as examples, in the prison-house of the world below, a |
secondly, they think that if the substratum is one numerically, it must have also only a single potentiality-which is a very different thing. |
in addition, since hot and cold are contrary powers, it is impossible to allot any shape to the cold. for the shape given must be the contrary of that given to the hot, but there is no contrariety between figures. |
the fittest place for a temple or an altar (he maintained) was some site visible from afar, and untrodden by foot of man: (eighteen) since it was a glad thing for the worshipper to lift up his eyes afar off and offer up his orison; glad also to wend his |
whether the motion is derived from what is in motion but moves itself and stops its own motion, on both suppositions we have the result that in all cases of things being in motion that which primarily imparts motion is unmoved. |
from this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish, even with death, those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable; otherwise men would be so confident upon the hope of impunity, |
for a man must have intelligence of universals, and be able to proceed from the many particulars of sense to one conception of reason;--this is the recollection of those things which our soul once saw while following god--when regardless of that which we |
a want of contented repose among the people in their several places. |
sic enim est faciendum, ut contra universam naturam nihil contendamus, ea tamen conservata propriam nostram sequamur, ut, etiamsi sint alia graviora atque meliora, tamen nos studia nostra nostrae naturae regula one hundred three metiamur; neque enim |
now it is evident that the four rectangles. ag, gi, il, la are all equal; but ag is the rectangle ab.bg or ab.bc. therefore the sum of the four rectangles is equal to ab.bc. again, the figure np is evidently equal to the square on ac. |
more than a man who, not being blind or deaf, has distinct ideas of the colour of scarlet and the sound of a trumpet, could discourse concerning scarlet colour with the blind man i mentioned in another place, who fancied that the idea of scarlet was like |
but cleanthes says, that there are six divisions of reason according to philosophy: dialectics, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, and theology; but others assert that these are not divisions of reason, but of philosophy itself; and this is the opinion |
parable in which plato has wrapped up his conception of the creation of the world. the explanation may help to fill up with figures of speech the void of knowledge. |
a second sort, is of those that have some natural dispositions which have better grace in youth, than in age; such as is a fluent and luxuriant speech; which becomes youth well, but not age: so tully saith of hortensius, idem manebat, neque idem decebat. |
nor is there motion in respect of relation: for it may happen that when one correlative changes, the other, although this does not itself change, is no longer applicable, so that in these cases the motion is accidental. |
one. what is the subject-matter of book six.? ans. application of the theory of proportion. |
-"one excepted, whom i hold still dearer," answered the voluntary beggar. "thou thyself art good, o zarathustra, and better even than a cow!" |
three. if two of the opposite sides of a quadrilateral be respectively the greatest and least, the angles adjacent to the least are greater than their opposite angles. |
athenian: but it certainly can be; so much i clearly see. |
common qualities, most appearing in mean souls; that to revise and correct himself, to forsake an unjust argument in the height and heat of dispute, are rare, great, and philosophical qualities. |
beyond this point-the end of the second main division of the "transcendental dialectic"-i have not extended my alterations, eight partly from want of time, and partly because i am not aware that any portion of the remainder has given rise to |
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