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their king, agis, accordingly set out at once during this winter with some troops from decelea, and levied from the allies contributions for the fleet, and turning towards the malian gulf exacted a sum of money from the oetaeans by carrying off most of |
in us thus confused because we are not wholly perfect. and it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from god, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing. |
but (two) other things are in place indirectly, through something conjoined with them, as the soul and the heaven. the latter is, in a way, in place, for all its parts are: for on the orb one part contains another. |
these discourses are, in my opinion, very true and rational; but we are, i know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn. |
and lastly, whether it be possible that whilst a man thus openly bids defiance to this innate law and supreme lawgiver, all the bystanders, yea, even the governors and rulers of the people, full of the same sense both of the law and law-maker, should |
but in neither of these senses is it innate. |
nails.' or once more, let us reflect on two serious passages in which the order of the world is supposed to find a place in the human soul and to infuse harmony into it. |
the remaining part he divided into long and round figures, and to these as to anchors, fastening the mortal soul, he proceeded to make the rest of the body, first forming for both parts a covering of bone. |
time. but that is impossible. again, whatever the time, so long as it is finite, in which the infinite performs the motion, a finite weight must necessarily move a certain finite distance in that same time. |
let friendship from this time forward begin betwixt us, and let us show whether i have given, or thou hast received thy life with the better faith"; and so departed from him. |
he must also make his own character look right and put his hearers, who are to decide, into the right frame of mind. |
when in this regress we can no longer find an efficient or final cause, we regard the last step of it as the end of the coming-or being or coming to be-and we regard ourselves as then only having full knowledge of the reason why he came. |
six. the perimeter of any triangle is greater than that of any inscribed triangle, and less than that of any circumscribed triangle. |
we first of all separate a predicate of a thing from the conception of the thing, and afterwards connect with this predicate its opposite, and hence do not establish any contradiction with the subject, but only with its predicate, which has been conjoined |
twenty nine the first and greatest evidence is afforded by the winds, which blow hot from these regions; the second is that the land is rainless always and without frost, whereas after snow has fallen rain must necessarily come within five days, so that |
hence zeno's reasoning is false when he argues that there is no part of the millet that does not make a sound: for there is no reason why any such part should not in any length of time fail to move the air that the whole bushel moves in falling. |
i see no reason, therefore, to believe that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on; and as those are increased and retained, so it comes, by exercise, to improve its faculty of thinking in the several parts of it; as |
the old man was comforted as he heard him and said, "my son, see what a good thing it is to have made due offerings to the immortals; for as sure as that he was born my son never forgot the gods that hold olympus, and now they requite it to him even in |
fly nor fight. he charged in himself boldly, however, with his horse, and came to close quarters with them, but was very unequal, whether as to the offensive or defensive part; for with his weak and little javelins, he struck against targets that were of |
dem.-since a : c :: b : c, a- c b c. hence, multiplying each by c, we get a b. |
which is the defect but absence of all self-control which is the excess. |
cilician pirates, who desired not peace nor quiet, but riches and spoils, they immediately forsook him, and sailed away into africa to assist ascalis, the son of iphtha, and to help to restore him to his kingdom of mauritania. |
and which is worse,--to be overcome by pain, or by pleasure? 'the latter.' |
if any man refuses to be a witness, he who wants him shall summon him, and he who is summoned shall come to the trial; and if he knows and is willing to bear witness, let him bear witness, but if he says he does not know let him swear by the three |
creating ones were first of all peoples, and only in late times individuals; verily, the individual himself is still the latest creation. |
"the first i saw was tyro. she was daughter of salmoneus and wife of cretheus the son of aeolus.ninety four she fell in love with the river enipeus who is much the most beautiful river in the whole world. |
in such passages we have to interpret his meaning by the general spirit of his writings. to reconcile his inconsistencies would be contrary to the first principles of criticism and fatal to any true understanding of him. |
thirty. if four circles be tangential to a fifth, and if we denote by twelve the common tangent to the first and second, c., then |
the people of athens have decreed, that a fit person shall be chosen among the athenian citizens, who shall be deputed to be sent to the deliverer; and after he hath duly performed the sacrifices, shall inquire of the deliverer, in what most religious and |
he had directed them against a foreign foe. |
there too, as every where, i sometimes expected the visitor who never comes. the vishnu purana says, "the house-holder is to remain at eventide in his court-yard as long as it takes to milk a cow, or longer if he pleases, to await the arrival of a guest." |
this view is further supported by the contributions of mathematicians to astronomy, since the observations made as the shapes change by which the order of the stars is determined, are fully accounted for on the hypothesis that the earth lies at the |
he was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed i struck him in the middle of the back; the bronze point of the spear went clean through him, and he lay groaning in the dust until the |
wherefore he made an image of eternity which is time, having an uniform motion according to number, parted into months and days and years, and also having greater divisions of past, present, and future. |
but, it will be said, marriage with a brother's daughter is with us a novelty. true; but it is common in other countries, and there is no law to forbid it. marriages of cousins were long unknown, but after a time they became frequent. |
cor. one.-if the ratio b : c be equal to the ratio a : b, then a, b, c will be in continued proportion, and so will a, b, c. hence def. xii. annotation three , |
the things which are seen are opposed in scripture to the things which are unseen-they are equally opposed in plato to universals and ideas. |
four. if a rectangular parallelogram be such that two adjacent sides contain respectively m and n linear units, by dividing one side into m and the other into n equal parts, and drawing parallels to the sides, the whole area is evidently divided into mn |
the particular affirmative is proved through the first and through the last figure, in one mood through the first, in three moods through the last. |
and so that soft place in his soul obeys his reason, just as an abashed soldier does his stern commander. |
"my friends, all of you," said the ugliest man, "what think ye? for the sake of this day- i am for the first time content to have lived mine entire life. |
he who strives with a man makes himself that man's rival, and must be on equal terms with him before he can overcome him. but what will the wise man do when he receives a cuff? |
this is something beyond philosophy; and it cannot be less than revelation, that discovers to another thoughts in my mind, when i can find none there myself. |
one hundred fifty tou autou eontes lithou : some mss. and many editors have aithiopikou for tou autou , "of ethiopian stone." for eontes the mss. have eontos , which may be right, referring to tou bathrou understood, "the base being made of," etc. |
but it is a wrong assumption to suppose universally that we have an adequate first principle in virtue of the fact that something always is so or always happens so. |
so that under this consideration, the whole community is one body in the state of nature, in respect of all other states or persons out of its community. |
essence or substance came to be understood (as may be seen in locke, and still more in loose talk) as a something,-a substratum,-or peculiar nature-(of which in itself nothing further could be said(thirty six) but which notwithstanding was permanent and |
and though this sort of love was so approved among them, that the most virtuous matrons would make professions of it to young girls, yet rivalry did not exist, and if several men's fancies met in one person, it was rather the beginning of an intimate |
eleven. the angles made with the base of an isosceles triangle by perpendiculars from its extremities on the equal sides are each equal to half the vertical angle. |
for it will follow that the outer stars are the swifter, and that the pace of the stars corresponds to the size of their circles. |
"we have discovered happiness"-say the last men, and blink thereby. |
"but," say you, "some men do not exact punishments, and nevertheless are cruel, such as those who kill the strangers whom they meet, not in order to rob them, but for killing's sake, and men who are not satisfied with killing, but kill four hundred |
; therefore agb must be obtuse; hence dfe, which is equal to it, is obtuse; and it has been proved that acb is acute; therefore the angles acb, dfe are of different species; but (hyp.) they are of the same species, which is absurd. |
similarly we must consider the antecedents of a itself: for if a term follows the primary antecedents, it will follow those also which are subordinate, but if it does not follow the former, it may yet follow the latter. |
composed of elements, since a part of fire will be neither fire nor any other element. |
he effected; man he made, and for him built magnificent this world, and earth his seat, him lord pronounced; and, o indignity! |
it is a curious observation, not often made, that good men who have lived in a well-governed city (shall we say in a religious and respectable society?) are more likely to make mistakes in their choice of life than those who have had more experience of |
short darts hand to hand. this seems to have been the cause of the total rout and open flight of all the carthaginians who were then engaged: there fell of them five thousand; four elephants were killed, and two taken; but, what was of greatest moment, on |
these lesser matters, as they indeed are in comparison with the greater ones, let a younger generation regulate by law, after the patterns which have preceded, and according to their own experience of the usefulness and necessity of such laws; and when |
first they went to sardis, having come with aristagoras the milesian our slave, and they set fire to the sacred groves and the temples; and then secondly, what things they did to us when we disembarked in their land, at the time when datis and artaphrenes |
it was plain that the friends of cnaeus pompeius, when they saw him fainting under his wounds, at the very moment of that most miserable and bitter sight were under great uneasiness how they themselves, surrounded by the enemy as they were, should escape, |
in the usage of ordinary language, sensation and feeling are not clearly distinguished: still we do not speak of the sensation,-but of the feeling (sense) of right, of self; sentimentality (sensibility) is connected with sensation: we may therefore say |
timaeus: all men, socrates, who have any degree of right feeling, at the beginning of every enterprise, whether small or great, always call upon god. |
spite of human frailty, wherein therefore he more than equals god." |
such were the words of hermocrates; after whom euphemus, the athenian ambassador, spoke as follows: |
the phantom that runneth on before thee, my brother, is fairer than thou; why dost thou not give unto it thy flesh and thy bones? but thou fearest, and runnest unto thy neighbour. |
still, to avoid keeping the soldiers in idleness, the first completed the embankment begun sixty-three years before by drusus to confine the waters of the rhine, while vetus prepared to connect the moselle and the arar by a canal, so that troops crossing |
but concerning a swarm of bees which settled on the poop of dion's ship, he privately told him and his friends, that he feared the great actions they were like to perform, though for a time they should thrive and flourish, would be of short continuance, |
socrates: read, that i may have his exact words. |
two. find the locus of the point which divides in a given ratio the several lines drawn from a given point to the circumference of a given circle. |
many persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations; thus we have attar, 'a druggist,' assar, 'an oil presser,' etc. two omar himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:-- |
into night, and that, too, no quiet, peaceable night, but with terrible thunderings, and boisterous winds from all quarters; during which the common people dispersed and fled, but the senators kept close together. |
then he can hardly be compelled by external influence to take many shapes? |
can the most horrible and hideous of all murders--that of fatherland--bring advantage to anybody, even though he who has committed such a crime receives from his enslaved fellow-citizens the title of "father of his country" bt ? |
this same argument may also be stated in another way as follows. every movent moves something and moves it with something, either with itself or with something else: e.g. |
partly by entreaty, partly by force, they took him up, and carried him in his litter towards the sea-side. |
then with what a surprising and incredible progress did our ancestors advance towards all kind of excellence, when once the republic was freed from the regal power! |
for it is not the part of a man that is a man indeed, to desire to live long or to make much of his life whilst he liveth: but rather (he that is such) will in these things wholly refer himself unto the gods, and believing that which every woman can tell |
if on the other hand the whole is moved by itself as a whole, it must be accidentally that the parts move themselves: and therefore, their self-motion not being necessary, we may take the case of their not being moved by themselves. |
these persons will themselves be called legislators, and will appoint the magistrates, framing some sort of aristocracy, or perhaps monarchy, out of the dynasties or lordships, and in this altered state of the government they will live. |
the nation which is subject to one earthly soveraign, is the nation of that soveraign, that is, of the publique person. so the jews, who were gods nation, were called (exod. nineteen.six.) "a holy nation." |
if diomede refuse his aid to lend, the great messapus yet remains our friend: tolumnius, who foretells events, is ours; th' italian chiefs and princes join their pow'rs: nor least in number, nor in name the last, your own brave subjects have your cause |
caius, compared to several persons, may truly be said to be older and younger, stronger and weaker, c. |
on the former view there could be an amount of earth so small as to contain less solid than a large mass of fire. |
we ourselves are in agreement with them in holding that nothing can be said without qualification to come from what is not. but nevertheless we maintain that a thing may 'come to be from what is not'-that is, in a qualified sense. |
his passage effected, he called a meeting of the scionaeans and spoke to the same effect as at acanthus and torone, adding that they merited the utmost commendation, in that, in spite of pallene within the isthmus being cut off by the athenian occupation |
of plots: some aim at the life of those who govern, others at their government; the first arises from hatred to their persons; which hatred may be owing to many causes, either of which will be sufficient to excite their anger, and the generality of those |
then came pope julius, who found the church powerful, possessing all romagna, all the roman barons suppressed, and the factions destroyed by the severity of alexander. |
but in fact this is not what we see occurring. |
antonius was a man of ready audacity; marcellus had the glory of being the great-grandson of asinius pollio, and bore a character far from contemptible, except that he thought poverty the greatest of all evils. |
ratified, or pardoned, whilest it is in doing, or after it is done. also numb. thirty five.thirty. |
it is hard to say that the man who was obliged to cry out in this manner was not oppressed with evil, and great evil too. |
athenian: once more let there be a third general law respecting the judges who are to give judgment, and the manner of conducting suits against those who are tried on an accusation of treason; and as concerning the remaining or departure of their |
the four elements are taken from empedocles; the interstices of the timaeus may also be compared with his (greek). the passage of one element into another is common to heracleitus and several of the ionian philosophers. |
as if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought! |
the characteristics of the stars which move with a circular motion, in respect of substance and shape, movement and order, have now been sufficiently explained. |
euclid's definition for a tangent is quite inadequate for any curve but the circle, and those derived from it by projection (the conic sections); and even for these the modern definition is better. |
for as soon as a king assumes an unjust and despotic power, he instantly becomes a tyrant, than which nothing baser or fouler, than which no imaginable animal can be more detestable to gods or men; for though in form a man, he surpasses the most savage |
book one chapter one paragraph sixty five |
and dyme and tritaieis, of which the last alone has an inland position. one hundred fifty one these form now twelve divisions of the achaians, and in former times they were divisions of the ionians. |
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