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a good man that men may know it how many worthy men have we known to survive their reputation humble out of pride i am very glad to find the way beaten before me by others i find myself here fettered by the laws of ceremony i have no mind to die, but one |
tis a good, if duly considered, which has in it, as the other goods of men have, a great deal of vanity and weakness, proper and natural to itself, and that costs very dear. |
when the prisoner saw that this was fatal to him, he hesitated whether he should still persist, but at the urgent request of his sons braced his courage and once more entered the senate. |
the writer of the inscription has added to marcellus's five consulates, his two proconsulates. |
when two legs of my level were on the shore and the third on the ice, and the sights were directed over the latter, a rise or fall of the ice of an almost infinitesimal amount made a difference of several feet on a tree across the pond. |
three hundred eighteen. they who forbid when there is nothing to be forbidden, and forbid not when there is something to be forbidden, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path. |
but they have now got together a still larger armament from peloponnese and the rest of hellas; and we, seeing our utter inability to cope with them without foreign aid, and the magnitude of the danger which subjection to them implies, find it necessary |
coming-to-be and passing-away will, as we have said, always be continuous, and will never fail owing to the cause we stated. and this continuity has a sufficient reason on our theory. |
he hardly allows to the notions of the ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones by which he has himself risen to a higher knowledge. |
since, then, it would require a force greater than itself to move it, it must needs stay at the centre. |
so when they were establishing the treasury, they consulted the oracle as to whether their present prosperity was capable of remaining with them for a long time, and the pythian prophetess gave them this reply: |
from their judgment of his character, then that he might thus make the breach final between himself and the people. |
that being so, it is evident that the point also must first traverse a space equal to or less than itself. |
ninety one. the kilikians furnished a hundred ships; and these again had about their heads native helmets, and for shields they carried targets made of raw ox-hide: they wore tunics eighty six of wool and each man had two javelins and a sword, this last |
when it was now told him that mithridates and tigranes were just ready to transport their forces into lycaonia and cilicia, with the object of entering asia before him, he wondered much why the armenian, supposing him to entertain any real intention to |
cor.-the line af is an axis of symmetry of the figure. |
the first and easiest reasons, which are commonly the best taken, i know not how to employ: i am an ill orator to the common sort. i am apt of everything to say the extremest that i know. |
of every person in it. this legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power |
(thing) is consequently not a log except incidentally. |
believing that he was inspired by the holy ghost, or had received his wisdom from moses, they seemed to find in his writings the christian trinity, the word, the church, the creation of the world in a jewish sense, as they really found the personality of |
prop. twenty five. we endeavour to affirm, concerning ourselves, and concerning what we love, everything that we can conceive to affect pleasurably ourselves, or the loved object. |
during this process the whole soul is all in a state of ebullition and effervescence,--which may be compared to the irritation and uneasiness in the gums at the time of cutting teeth,--bubbles up, and has a feeling of uneasiness and tickling; but when in |
the sides about the equal angles of equiangular triangles (bac, cde) are proportional, and those which are opposite to the equal angles are homologous. |
miss foxley's translation of the emile , especially of book five, should be studied in connection with the social contract . a companion volume, containing the letters on the mount and other works, will be issued shortly. |
in the next place, they divided the veins about the head, and interlacing them, they sent them in opposite directions; those coming from the right side they sent to the left of the body, and those from the left they diverted towards the right, so that |
chapter nineteen. of the severall kinds of common-wealth by institution, and of succession to the soveraigne power |
explanation given, and not want any other sort of cause. |
bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant. |
like blind people you are wandering up and down; you are going by another road, and have left the true road; you seek for prosperity and happiness where they are not, and if another shows you where they are, you do not believe him. |
i mean to plunge the boy in pleasing sleep, and, ravish'd, in idalian bow'rs to keep, or high cythera, that the sweet deceit may pass unseen, and none prevent the cheat. take thou his form and shape. |
when the father and creator saw the creature which he had made moving and living, the created image of the eternal gods, he rejoiced, and in his joy determined to make the copy still more like the original; and as this was eternal, he sought to make the |
so then, after having collected supporters and called himself leader of the men of the mountain-lands, sixty six he contrived a device as follows:-he inflicted wounds upon himself and upon his mules, and then drove his car into the market-place, as if he |
with the principles and demonstrations in geometry, that mathematicians never admit it into doubt, or make the least question of it. |
but that coyne, which is not considerable for the matter, but for the stamp of the place, being unable to endure change of ayr, hath its effect at home only; where also it is subject to the change of laws, and thereby to have the value diminished, to the |
but whereas the velocity of that which comes to a standstill seems always to increase, the velocity of that which is carried violently seems always to decrease: so it will he in a state of rest without having become so. |
at all events they resolved to attempt it. |
four equidem et platonem existimo, si genus forense dicendi tractare voluisset, gravissime et copiosissime potuisse dicere, et demosthenem, si illa, quae a platone didicerat, tenuisset et pronuntiare voluisset, ornate splendideque facere potuisse; |
for no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will. |
first of all, i would mention what aristotle has said of nicias, that there had been three good citizens, eminent above the rest for their hereditary affection and love to the people, nicias the son of niceratus, thucydides the son of melesias, and |
if their skins are not covered with hair, they have no need of such covering in warm climates; and, in cold countries, they soon learn to appropriate the skins of the beasts they have overcome. |
but when machares, the son of mithridates, and governor of bosporus, sent him a crown valued at a thousand pieces of gold, and desired to be enrolled as a friend and confederate of the romans, he fairly reputed that war at an end, and left sornatius, his |
bodies different colours, to improve and beautify their bows and arrows and to make with sharp-edged stones fishing boats or clumsy musical instruments; in a word, so long as they undertook only what a single person could accomplish, and confined |
hecatonymus, who was reported to be a clever orator, acted as their spokesman: "soldiers," he said, "the city of the sinopeans has sent us to offer you, as hellenes, our compliments and congratulations on your victories over the barbarians; and next, to |
in the first place, when a particular formation of a thing is completed, we do not call it by the name of its material: e.g. |
hence, to conclude, since causes of this kind are indefinite, chance too is indefinite. (yet in some cases one might raise the question whether any incidental fact might be the cause of the chance occurrence, e.g. |
affirm an infinite number simultaneously), so also can we, by the same faculty of feeling, feel or perceive (in succession) an infinite number of bodies. |
but alexandrides of delphi writes in his history, that there was also a deposit of lysander's, a talent of silver, and fifty-two minas, besides eleven staters; a statement not consistent with the generally received account of his poverty. |
while the infants lay here, history tells us, a she- wolf nursed them, and a woodpecker constantly fed and watched them; these creatures are esteemed holy to the god mars, the woodpecker the latins still especially worship and honor. |
and down to the present unsettled times the foremost men of the state have kept this profession exclusively in their own hands; but now the prestige of legal learning has departed along with offices of honour and positions of dignity; and this is the more |
therefore the beleef of this article is sufficient; and by consequence there is no other article of faith necessarily required to salvation. |
to gratify the people, he did not interfere with their beating to death any that fell into their hands of nero's party. |
particular deluge. for earthquakes are seldom in those parts. but on the other side, they have such pouring rivers, as the rivers of asia and africk and europe, are but brooks to them. |
wang hsi, however, may be right in saying that what is meant is "the general economy of heaven," including the five elements, the four seasons, wind and clouds, and other phenomena. |
but let this point be first thoroughly understood between us, that all which can be said on moral action must be said in outline, as it were, and not exactly: for as we remarked at the commencement, such reasoning only must be required as the nature of |
multiplicity of the conditions of its existence.--in a lizard a finger grows again which has been lost; not so in man.-- |
after these stood eight hundred leucadians and anactorians; and next to them two hundred from pale in kephallenia. after these were ranged five hundred eginetans; by their side three thousand megarians; and next to these six hundred plataians. |
and so of the rest. moreover, in the two sections of the lots the same principle of equalization of the soil ought to be maintained; the badness and goodness shall be compensated by more and less. |
consult the truth, it will reprove you; refer the matter to your ears, they will sanction the usage. why so? because they will say that that sound is the most agreeable one to them; and an oration ought to consult that which gives pleasure to the ears. |
if then being is both substance and quantity, it is two, not one: if only substance, it is not infinite and has no magnitude; for to have that it will have to be a quantity. |
to yield a placid sky, to bid the trees assume the lively verdure of their leaves: the vine to bud, and, joyful, in its shoots, foretell the approaching vintage of its fruits: the ripen'd corn to sing, while all around full riv'lets glide; and flowers |
to his colleague caius laelius, the father of this laelius, who was surnamed the wise; publius africanus, the elder brother of lucius scipio, rose up, and entreated them not to cast such a slur on his family, and said that in his brother there was united |
body. this however we do not perceive, nor do we reflect that when a weak or small frame is the vehicle of a great and mighty soul, or conversely, when a little soul is encased in a large body, then the whole animal is not fair, for it lacks the most |
"non enim paranda nobis solum, sed fruenda sapientia est." |
these things being done, and the king taking them ill, and being incensed against her, she with raillery and laughter told him, "you are a comfortable and happy man indeed, if you are so much disturbed for the sake of an old rascally eunuch, when i, |
why, therefore, do you presume to assert that there are not only six hundred thousand worlds, but that they are innumerable? reason tells you so. |
that lie a priori at the basis of the empirical. |
the yielding matter is that which has the slenderest base, whereas that which has a rectangular base is compact and repellent. light and heavy are wrongly explained with reference to a lower and higher in place. |
so, i say, must a man in like manner interrogate his own nature in reference to a man's requirements, and learn to know his own capacities, must he not? |
eight. by eternity, i mean existence itself, in so far as it is conceived necessarily to follow solely from the definition of that which is eternal. |
but he being altogether scorned by the achaeans, and, for the want of aratus to help, all things going wrong, philip saw he had quite mistaken his part, and, turning about and reconciling himself to aratus, he was wholly his; and his affairs now going on |
unclean matter, swells and festers, but, again, when the body is purged, settles down into the same place as before, and is humbled. |
and though this may seem too subtile a deduction of the lawes of nature, to be taken notice of by all men; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men unexcusable, they have been |
the subjects which they are to learn, and the order in which they are to be learnt, are mysteries which cannot be explained beforehand, but not mysteries in any other sense. 'if that is the case, what is to be done?' |
a sympathetic action, for instance, is neither called good nor bad, moral nor immoral, in the best period of the romans; and should it be praised, a sort of resentful disdain is compatible with this praise, even at the best, directly the sympathetic |
this result, then, as i have said, is reached by syllogism. it would be absurd to suppose that the point is void; for the void must be place which has in it an interval in tangible body. |
two. prove prop. xi. without using prop. viii. |
weariness of old age, cuts down youth in its bloom while still full of hope of better things, or calls home childhood before the harsher stages of life are reached: it is the end of all men, a relief to many, a desire to some, and it treats none so well |
in fact it does not of itself move even such a quantity of the air as it would move if this part were by itself: for no part even exists otherwise than potentially. |
(one) mathematical number cannot be of this sort, but the holder of this view has to spin it out by making suppositions peculiar to himself. and (two) he must also admit all the consequences that confront those who speak of number in the sense of 'forms'. |
now the recognition of the moral law is the consciousness of an activity of practical reason from objective principles, which only fails to reveal its effect in actions because subjective (pathological) causes hinder it. |
and these things which i say many of us persians know well; yet we go with the rest being bound in the bonds of necessity: and the most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event." |
these propositions to us have an appearance of paradox--they are really moments or aspects of the truth by the help of which we pass from the old conventional morality to a higher conception of virtue and knowledge. |
having assumed that the number of the perfect or divine cycle is the number of the world, and the number of the imperfect cycle the number of the state, he proceeds: 'the period of the world is defined by the perfect number six, that of the state by the |
when they were close up with one another, alexandrus came forward as champion on the trojan side. |
elements of each are to one another, and so on, and if there is more air than water and, generally, more of the finer body than of the coarser, obviously the element of water will be smaller than that of air. |
indeed, indeed, repentance oft before i swore--but was i sober when i swore? and then and then came spring, and rose-in-hand my thread-bare penitence a-pieces tore. |
and if again i take another part equal to ae, that also must occupy a finite time in consequence of the same assumption. |
held in detestation or banished from the city;-surely not. |
he came) to manifest, and declare himself. seeing therefore he did nothing, but by preaching, and miracles go about to prove himselfe to be that messiah, hee did therein nothing against their laws. |
thirty three. for the circumscribed circle, the constant is equal to n times the square of the radius of the inscribed circle, together with one n times the square of the radius of the circumscribed circle. |
now the present that is the extremity of both times must be one and the same: for if each extremity were different, the one could not be in succession to the other, because nothing continuous can be composed of things having no parts: and if the one is |
but his sons might alike visit both, and not compromise the imperial dignity, which inspired the greatest awe at a distance. |
socrates: then there is hippias the elean stranger, who probably agrees with him. |
on the other hand, the tongue is one of the most sensitive of organs; but then this is made, not to be a covering to the bones which contain the marrow or source of life, but with an express purpose, and in a separate mass. |
ten. just as distempers and sickness are bred in the body from the corruption of the blood, and the too great abundance of phlegm and bile, so the mind is deprived of its health, and disordered with sickness, from a confusion of depraved opinions that are |
it suffices to my present purpose to have shown here, by some few examples, of what sort these ideas are, and how the mind comes by them; especially since i shall have occasion hereafter to treat more at large of reasoning, judging, volition, and |
on no point, however, is the ordinary consciousness of europeans more unwilling to be corrected than on this matter, people now rave everywhere, even under the guise of science, about coming conditions of society in which "the exploiting character" is to |
eleven. what is the altitude of a rectilineal figure? |
motions that are not the same either specifically or generically may, it is true, be consecutive (e.g. |
the lover should be tested, and the beloved should not be too ready to yield. the rule in our country is that the beloved may do the same service to the lover in the way of virtue which the lover may do to him. |
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