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speak and do, and that we must not be as children, who follow their father's example; for best reason alleging their bare ; or, as by successive tradition from our forefathers we have received it. |
to sum up, it is a distinctive mark of substance, that, while remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities, the modification taking place through a change in the substance itself. |
die for love, but was contriving how he might enter hades alive; moreover, they afterwards caused him to suffer death at the hands of women, as the punishment of his cowardliness. |
thus we are left with motions respectively to contraries, and motions respectively to contraries from the opposite contraries. |
one afternoon i amused myself by watching a barred owl ( strix nebulosa ) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white-pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, i standing within a rod of him. |
for in that course, a man doth but disavow fortune; and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth; and doth but teach others, to envy him. |
two hundred thirty eight. having thus said xerxes passed in review the bodies of the dead; and as for leonidas, hearing that he had been the king and commander of the lacedemonians he bade them cut off his head and crucify him. |
find in them proceeds not from them, but from a cause of that very diversity in our thought. |
it is, therefore, not surprising that we find among its advocates writers of the most opposite points of view. barely stated, it is a mere formula, which may be filled in with any content from absolutism to pure republicanism. |
corresponding to them, which although deficient in various degrees, were all of them worth inspecting with a view to determining the relative happiness or misery of the best or worst man. |
almost every man we meet requires some civility,-requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. |
some god must have told them, or else they saw the ship go by, and could not overtake her." |
at the same time also, i beg this of you; that if you have been acquainted with my moderation and modesty throughout my whole life, and especially as a speaker, you will not, when to-day i answer this man in the spirit in which he has attacked me, think |
four hundred thirty two. the fight of recognition is a life and death struggle: either self-consciousness imperils the other's like, and incurs a like peril for its own-but only peril, for either is no less bent on maintaining his life, as the existence |
the earth, then, also, whether it move about the centre or as stationary at it, must necessarily move with two motions. but if this were so, there would have to be passings and turnings of the fixed stars. yet no such thing is observed. |
then thou carriedst thine ashes into the mountains: wilt thou now carry thy fire into the valleys? fearest thou not the incendiary's doom? |
but he who should attempt to test the truth of this by experiment, would forget the difference of the human and divine nature. god only is able to compound and resolve substances; such experiments are impossible to man. |
judgment against him. any of his friends or acquaintance who fell into the people's hands, whilst they were in this fury, did not fail to meet with very severe usage. thucydides has omitted to name the informers, but others mention dioclides and teucer. |
nerve: sinew obnoxious: subservient, liable oes: round spangles pair: impair pardon: allowance passable: mediocre pine-apple-tree: pine plantation: colony platform: plan plausible: praiseworthy point device: excessively precise politic: politician poll: |
again, when we say that a thing is at rest, we imply that its condition in whole and in part is at the time of speaking uniform with what it was previously: but the present contains no 'previously': consequently, there can be no rest in it. |
two. i know, however, that there are some who imagine that clemency only saves the life of every villain, because clemency is useless except after conviction, and alone of all the virtues has no function among the innocent. |
i do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they |
might, perhaps, by means of these conceptions, be the author of the experience in which its objects were presented to it-he was forced to drive these conceptions from experience, that is, from a subjective necessity arising from repeated association of |
for we have seen the moon, half-full, pass beneath the planet mars, which vanished on its shadow side and came forth by the bright and shining part. |
everything that is in motion must be moved by something. for if it has not the source of its motion in itself it is evident that it is moved by something other than itself, for there must be something else that moves it. |
hard and unequal is with wrath the strife, which makes us buy its pleasure with our life. |
in the next place, they divided the veins about the head and interlaced them with each other in order that they might form an additional link between the head and the body, and that the sensations from both sides might be diffused throughout the body. |
no (he replied), that is not my question. |
they lie not open as natural characters engraved on the mind; which, if any such were, they must needs be visible by themselves, and by their own light be certain and known to everybody. |
therefore ab is greater than bc ca by bc.four hundred. |
may take him away, but if he take him away after any other manner he shall be deemed guilty of violence, and being convicted shall pay as a penalty double the amount of the damages claimed to him who has been deprived of the slave. |
influence in lacedemon, heard from the ephors all that which the athenians were saying; and he, it seems, said to them these words: "thus the matter stands, ephors:-if the athenians are not friendly with us but are allies of the barbarian, then though a |
ts'ao kung's note is: "we can merely obstruct the enemy's road or divide his army, but not sweep away all his accumulated stores." water can do useful service, but it lacks the terrible destructive power of fire. |
thus it follows that the degree of our knowledge of a thing's essential nature is determined by the sense in which we are aware that it exists. let us then take the following as our first instance of being aware of an element in the essential nature. |
cor. eleven.-if a diagonal of a parallelogram bisect the angles whose vertices it joins, the parallelogram is a lozenge. |
repugnant to honour and justice. a witness ought to be very careful not to sin against justice, as for example in what relates to the throwing away of arms--he must distinguish the throwing them away when necessary, and not make that a reproach, or bring |
i understand, he said: but i may and must ask the gods to prosper my journey from this to the other world--even so--and so be it according to my prayer. then raising the cup to his lips, quite readily and cheerfully he drank off the poison. |
if he seems to be extreme in his condemnation of medicine and to rely too much on diet and exercise, he might appeal to nearly all the best physicians of our own age in support of his opinions, who often speak to their patients of the worthlessness of |
with regard to the tediousness of the writings referred to above, it is to be observed in general that there are two kinds of tediousness--an objective and a subjective. |
trusted who loves voluntary falsehood, and he who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool. |
itself sweated oil of roses, and, though they often dried and wiped it, yet it would not cease; and that immediately before the battle, two eagles falling upon each other fought in the space between the two armies, that the whole field kept incredible |
observation.-propositions xi, xii., may both be included in one enunciation as follows:-"if two circles touch each other at any point, the centres and that point are collinear." |
we wish for that in which the elements of either are small and few and feeble, and the pains exceed. |
are quite as agreeable as the argument, we arrive at the great socratic thesis that virtue is knowledge. |
one will then be few, whether few be treated here as singular or plural; for the many are opposed also to the few. |
on this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him. he set the bellows away from the fire, and gathered his tools into a silver chest. |
sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. |
as substances i class the simple bodies-fire, earth, and the other terms of the series-and all things composed of them; for example, the heaven as a whole and its parts, animals, again, and plants and their parts. |
this only will i say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings. |
good a citizen soever otherwise, who amongst his enemies in battle spared not his friend and his guest. |
polus: clearly he who was never out of health. |
procuring what is necessary for a family is different from that which belongs either to the master or the slave: and to do this justly must be either by war or hunting. and thus much of the difference between a master and a slave. |
even their rivers were dried up. being told by the oracle that, if they appeased and reconciled minos, the anger of the gods would cease and they should enjoy rest from the miseries they labored under, they sent heralds, and with much supplication were at |
but every body is divisible and therefore, since body 'combined' with body is uniform in texture throughout, any and every part of each constituent ought to be juxtaposed to a part of the other. |
eighty seven. though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. |
(events that are for the sake of something include whatever may be done as a result of thought or of nature.) things of this kind, then, when they come to pass incidental are said to be 'by chance'. |
four. being given a side of a regular pentagon, construct it. |
meriones gave chase to acamas on foot and caught him up just as he was about to mount his chariot; he drove a spear through his right shoulder so that he fell headlong from the car, and his eyes were closed in darkness. |
the master said, 'those who are without virtue cannot abide long either in a condition of poverty and hardship, or in a condition of enjoyment. the virtuous rest in virtue; the wise desire virtue.' |
thus did he speak, and the heart of diomed was glad. he planted his spear in the ground, and spoke to him with friendly words. "then," he said, "you are an old friend of my father's house. |
forty eight. on open ground, i would keep a vigilant eye on my defences. on ground of intersecting highways, i would consolidate my alliances. |
the atomists too made the world, if not out of geometrical figures, at least out of different forms of atoms, and these atoms resembled the triangles of plato in being too small to be visible. |
but the motion of a thing can never be constituted by the motion of something else: consequently the whole motion is the motion of the whole magnitude. |
fifty eight. rule is divided into five parts. one is rule according to law; another is rule according to nature; a third kind is rule according to custom; a fourth division is rule with reference to family; the fifth is rule by force. |
cannot be overcome by persuasion, but the other can: and lastly, every man may be said to share in true opinion, but mind is the attribute of the gods and of very few men. |
xxviii. a polygon of four sides is called a quadrilateral. |
the phrase of a law is jubeo, injungo, i command, and enjoyn: the phrase of a charter is dedi, concessi, i have given, i have granted: but what is given or granted, to a man, is not forced upon him, by a law. |
in another sense (two) the form or the archetype, i.e. the statement of the essence, and its genera, are called 'causes' (e.g. of the octave the relation of two:one, and generally number), and the parts in the definition. |
the former is symbolized in the hellenic tale of young phaethon who drove his father's horses the wrong way, and having burnt up the earth was himself burnt up by a thunderbolt. |
however, he entirely routed the enemy, killing micion and many more on the spot. the grecian army, also, in thessaly, after leonnatus and the macedonians who came with him out of asia, had arrived and joined antipater, fought and beat them in a battle. |
"if then a differentia of a differentia be taken at each step, one differentia-the last-will be the form and the substance; but if we divide according to accidental qualities, e.g. |
god from the beginning, and according to his word and promises delivered by the prophets." |
do thou however, since thou art come bearing good news, thyself report it to them; for if i say these things, i shall be thought to speak that which i have myself invented, and i shall not persuade them, but they will think that the barbarians are not |
for all things go the wrong way, and having become corrupted, first they taint the blood itself, and then ceasing to give nourishment to the body they are carried along the veins in all directions, no longer preserving the order of their natural courses, |
they yield and give up themselves to their natural inclinations, to the power and impulse of passions, to the constitution of laws and customs, and to the tradition of arts; non enim nos deus ista scire, sed tantummodo uti, voluit. |
and i thought that it was easy for me to select some matters which should neither be obnoxious to much controversy, nor should compel me to expound more of my principles than i desired, and which should yet be sufficient clearly to exhibit what i can or |
so while it is true to say that that which is in motion is at a moment not in motion and is opposite some particular thing, it cannot in a period of time be over against that which is at rest: for that would involve the conclusion that that which is in |
dem.-because the rectangle ab.bc is equal to the square on ac,ab : ac :: ac : bc xvii. . hence ab is cut in extreme and mean ratio in one hundred def. ii. . |
i hate those who make known secrets, and think that they are straightforward.' chap. twenty five. the master said, 'of all people, girls and servants are the most difficult to behave to. if you are familiar with them, they lose their humility. |
if some man in bedlam should entertaine you with sober discourse; and you desire in taking leave, to know what he were, that you might another time requite his civility; and he should tell you, he were god the father; i think you need expect no |
that the most perfect manifestation of the will to live , which presents itself in the extremely subtle and complicated machinery of the human organism, must fall to dust and finally deliver up its whole being to dissolution, is the naive way in which |
for if it were possible, then it might actually occur, with the result, not that the body would simultaneously be actually both (indivisible and divided), but that it would be simultaneously divided at any and every point. |
they being thus in doubt which way to turn themselves, archelaus, the commander of antigonus's troops, having a great number of soldiers with him, made up towards the castle with great shouts and noise of trumpets to fall upon aratus's people, and passed |
and 'impossibility' has two uses: first, where it is untrue to say that the thing can ever come into being, and secondly, where it cannot do so easily, quickly, or well. |
addition to revealing the meaning of a name, also reveal that the name has this meaning. |
applied to each (denoting in each case the proportion of two to one), yet water and air are not commensurable in respect of it. but here again may we not take up the same position and say that the term 'much' is equivocal? |
thyself, proclaim that which seems to thee best: for good counsel i hold to be a very great gain; since even if anything shall prove adverse, the counsel which has been taken is no less good, though it has been defeated by fortune; while he who took |
from mind, then everything that we perceive through the body is to be regarded as most real and certain. |
sir rich. baker 's chronicle of the kings of england from the romans government to this time. |
more honorable reception; but in the meantime, as pompey took philip by the hand to rise up more easily, septimius first stabbed him from behind with his sword; and after him likewise salvius and achillas drew out their swords. |
whatsoever we imagine, is finite. therefore there is no idea, or conception of anything we call infinite. |
two. may be proved by reversing this demonstration. |
nor is it unlikely that the confluence of many attributes may have conferred it on him. |
every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. |
of the covenant;" that is, i will reign over you, and make you to stand to that covenant which you made with me by moses, and brake in your rebellion against me in the days of samuel, and in your election of another king. |
but you and i, who have no professional aims, only desire to see what is the mutual relation of these principles,--whether they are consistent with each or not. |
now in all cases other than substance it is plain that there must be some subject, namely, that which becomes. |
next, for destructive purposes, see whether any of the terms rendered in the property is used in more than one sense, or whether the whole expression too signifies more than one thing. for then the property will not have been correctly stated. |
homer does not say that kings received at the hands of jove besieging engines or ships of war, but sentences of justice, to keep and observe; nor is it the most warlike, unjust, and murderous, but the most righteous of kings, that has from him the name of |
for let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. |
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