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thus it is well to seem pious, faithful, humane, religious, sincere, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so watchful that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities. |
they will surely bring our country to impotence and dishonour and the loss of her rightful heritage; or, at the very least, they will bring about invasion and rebellion, sacrifice of territory and general enfeeblement. |
or in neither way, yet none the less is there something which is infinite or some things which are infinitely many? |
fifty five. two points, one hundred, five hundred, in the circumference of a given circle are on the same side of a given diameter; find a point p in the circumference at the other side of the given diameter, ab, such that pc, pd may cut ab at equal |
upon him at table. the young man who was of an ingenuous temper, without murmuring did as he was commanded; and, being thus admitted to live with lycurgus, he had an opportunity to observe in him, besides his gentleness and calmness of temper, an |
and into macedonia they at once started and took him. and the macedonians at home, who had not forgotten or forgiven the wicked deeds committed by cassander on the family of alexander, were far from sorry at the change. |
note.--we now clearly see what memory is. |
he brings, not sentiment, but philosophy to bear upon a question which both in ancient and modern times has been chiefly regarded in the light of custom or feeling. |
being themselves moved; and such as are not of this kind are no longer inside the province of physics, for they cause motion not by possessing motion or a source of motion in themselves, but being themselves incapable of motion. |
twenty six. and he died in the following manner. when he was going out of his school, he tripped, and broke one of his toes; and striking the ground with his hand, he repeated the line out of the niobe:- |
fourteen. in an equilateral triangle, three times the square on any side is equal to four times the square on the perpendicular to it from the opposite vertex. |
for the first step towards victory undoubtedly is to gain courage. |
for if in some sort of argumentation it is sufficient to use assumption, and if it is not requisite to add proof to the assumption; and if, again, in some sort of argumentation assumption is invalid unless proof be added to it; then proof is something |
in private, he gave advice to both, writing many letters to caesar, and personally entreating pompey; doing his best to soothe and bring to reason both the one and the other. |
thus it is clear (i) that to describe coming-to-be and passing-away in these terms is in accordance with their fundamental assumption, and (ii) that they do in fact so describe them: nevertheless, they too must recognize 'alteration' as a fact distinct |
now the principle of contradiction as a merely logical proposition must not by any means limit its application merely to relations of time, and consequently a formula like the preceding is quite foreign to its true purpose. |
light being that which discovers to us visible objects, we give the name of obscure to that which is not placed in a light sufficient to discover minutely to us the figure and colours which are observable in it, and which, in a better light, would be |
it pleases me to consider their face, bearing, and vestments: i pronounce those great names betwixt my teeth, and make them ring in my ears: |
it requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, i have been willing to omit the gun. |
now thought being an attribute of god, must necessarily exist unchanged (by prop. xi., and prop. xx., coroll. |
mysterious disappearance of the spartan population may possibly have suggested to him the first cause of his decline of states. |
certain the thing we fear will ever come to pass. |
to suppose, on the other hand, that these things were in being throughout all previous time without there being any motion appears unreasonable on a moment's thought, and still more unreasonable, we shall find, on further consideration. |
the crew then drew the ship on shore; their servants took their armour from them, and they went up in a body to the place of assembly, but they would not let any one old or young sit along with them, and antinous, son of eupeithes, spoke first. |
now the moved must be in motion, but it need not move anything else: the instrument of motion must both move something else and be itself in motion (for it changes together with the moved, with which it is in contact and continuous, as is clear in the |
they were no longer pure as before, but diluted; and the mixture he distributed into souls equal in number to the stars, and assigned each to a star-then having mounted them, as in a chariot, he showed them the nature of the universe, and told them of |
gone from me knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment learn the theory from those who best know the practice loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men motive to some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit my books: from me hold |
woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. and if i were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, i would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. |
two. if the sum of the squares of two lines be given, their sum is a maximum when the lines are equal. |
after numa. there were many other brief conflicts, we may suppose, but the most memorable was the last, in which romulus having received a wound on his head by a stone, and being almost felled to the ground by it, and disabled, the romans gave way, and, |
now (i) we do not speak of the wood as 'combined' with the fire, nor of its burning as a 'combining' either of its particles with one another or of itself with the fire: what we say is that 'the fire is coming-to-be, but the wood is 'passing-away'. |
in this case, contrary propositions follow respectively from contradictory propositions, and the contradictory propositions belong to separate sequences. |
it is the noble harmony of the ruling and the ruled, which makes the latter a partner of the sovereign, and takes from the dictates of the ruler any touch of coercion. |
one. why does euclid describe the equilateral triangle on the side remote from a? |
please follow me and the argument closely:--and first i will put forward tyrtaeus, an athenian by birth, but also a spartan citizen, who of all men was most eager about war: well, he says, |
nevertheless, upon receipt of the news, the athenians manned twenty ships and called immediately a first assembly in the pnyx, where they had been used to meet formerly, and deposed the four hundred and voted to hand over the government to the five |
bring him his caudle,-- a custom in france to bring the bridegroom a caudle in the middle of the night on his wedding-night -- if matters had not gone well with him, to give me such a sign, and leave the rest to me. |
() self-consciousness recognitive(one hundred thirty two). |
theodorus: theaetetus, socrates, is his name; but i rather think that the property disappeared in the hands of trustees; notwithstanding which he is wonderfully liberal. |
hence the sum of the two squares on ac, cb is less than the square on ab by twice the rectangle ce; that is, by twice the rectangle bc.four hundred. |
confused idea is such an one as is not sufficiently distinguishable from another, from which it ought to be different. |
twenty eight. if ten, y , z be any three points on the three sides of a triangle abc, the three circles about the triangles y az, zbx, xcy pass through a common point. |
our misogamist will not appeal to anacreon or sappho for a confirmation of his view, but to the universal experience of mankind. |
and since strong habit leads (prevails), and we are accustomed to employ desire and aversion only to things which are not within the power of our will, we ought to oppose to this habit a contrary habit, and where there is great slipperiness in the |
their interviews, being thus difficult and rare, served not only for continual exercise of their self-control, but brought them together with their bodies healthy and vigorous, and their affections fresh and lively, unsated and undulled by easy access and |
and this wall is so contrived that one circle is higher than the next by the height of the battlements alone. |
he who is unjust is to be pitied in any case; for no man voluntarily does evil or allows evil to exist in his soul. |
our presence bestows not being on it: our absence does not annihilate it. it preserves its existence uniform and entire, independent of the situation of intelligent beings, who perceive or contemplate it. |
the injury of my wife was unintended by me; and you have done wrong in alienating from me the mind of my child. |
cor. one.-if the ratio of two sides of a triangle be given, and the angle between them, the triangle is given in species. |
the greed of the foe helped him, for they left the slaughter to secure the spoil, and the legions, towards evening, struggled on to open and firm ground. |
otherwise industry will languish and idleness be encouraged, if a man has nothing to fear, nothing to hope from himself, and every one, in utter recklessness, will expect relief from others, thus becoming useless to himself and a burden to me." |
hereupon cato returned from sicily, and, together with fabius, made loud complaints in the open senate of scipio's lavishing unspeakable sums, and childishly loitering away his time in wrestling matches and comedies, as if he were not to make war, but |
(two) suppose, on the other hand, that the analysis stops somewhere. then the body at which it stops will be either atomic or, as empedocles seems to have intended, a divisible body which will yet never be divided. |
then minerva left scheria and went away over the sea. |
some philosophers think that the 'last' agent-the 'agent' in the strictest sense-enters in through certain pores, and so the patient suffers action. it is in this way, they assert, that we see and hear and exercise all our other senses. |
in these rare and obvious cases, provision is made for the public security by a particular act entrusting it to him who is most worthy. this commitment may be carried out in either of two ways, according to the nature of the danger. |
learned: yet those passions which derive their force from nature are equally powerful in all men: therefore it is clear that a passion of varying strength cannot be a natural one. |
each is carried to its own place, if it is not hindered, the one up, the other down. now these are regions or kinds of place-up and down and the rest of the six directions. |
liked the better: if a long train of actions shew the councils all tending that way; how can a man any more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own mind, which way things are going; or from casting about how to save himself, than he could from |
be imprinted on the mind as a duty, without supposing the ideas of god, of law, of obligation, of punishment, of a life after this, innate: for that punishment follows not in this life the breach of this rule, and consequently that it has not the force of |
it by the name of its material, it is evident that becomings of the former kind cannot be alterations. |
the fruits or herbs which are our daily sustenance take all sorts of colours when intermixed, but the colour of red or fire predominates, and hence the liquid which we call blood is red, being the nurturing principle of the body, whence all parts are |
first, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. to deny this is to assume our own infallibility. |
xvii. when the sum of two angles is a right angle, each is called the complement of the other. thus, if the angle bac be right, the angles bad, dac are complements of each other. |
for we spend all our time on the third point and employ all our diligence about that, and entirely neglect the first. therefore, at the same time that we lie, we are very ready to show how it is demonstrated that lying is wrong. |
in the encounter where caesar had the worst, near the city of oricum, he reproached pompey's soldiers that he had been lost had their general known how to overcome; and afterwards clawed him in a very different fashion when it came to his turn. |
he ended, and the son gave signal high to the bright minister that watched; he blew his trumpet, heard in oreb since perhaps when god descended, and perhaps once more to sound at general doom. |
if the proposition bc is converted, we shall have the first figure, and the conclusion that a may possibly belong to some of the bs. for when one of the premisses in the first figure is problematic, the conclusion also (as we saw) is problematic. |
as to bodies composed of earth and water, while the water occupies the vacant interstices of the earth in them which are compressed by force, the particles of water which approach them from without, finding no entrance, flow around the entire mass and |
infallible: the second, that he can make very laws, and punish those that observe them not: the third, that our saviour conferred all jurisdiction ecclesiasticall on the pope of rome. |
two. draw a parallel to a given line to touch a given circle. |
hence at once such things will act and be acted on by one another in many ways: each of them will be capable at the same time of causing alteration and of being altered. |
for the megalopolitans were then so pressed, that, the enemy being master of the field and encamping almost at their gates, they were forced to keep themselves within their walls, and sow their very streets. |
reflect honour on the legislator; for a government of freemen is nobler than despotic power, and more consonant to virtue. |
eight and yet there is still another classification of duties: we distinguish between "mean" b duty, so-called, and "absolute" duty. absolute duty we may, i presume, call "right," for the greeks call it , while the ordinary duty they call . |
invisible glory of him that made them to transform oft to the image of a brute, adorned with gay religions full of pomp and gold, and devils to adore for deities: then were they known to men by various names, and various idols through the heathen world. |
four), but in the main it is self-contained and complete. the title sufficiently defines its scope. it is called the social contract or principles of political right , and the second title explains the first. |
their messenger, a very cunning fellow, came to my father's house bringing a necklace of gold with amber beads strung among it; and while my mother and the servants had it in their hands admiring it and bargaining about it, he made a sign quietly to the |
when yet it is certain that not all, but only sagacious heads, light at first on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions: not innate but collected from a preceding acquaintance and reflection on particular instances. |
in musical contests there shall be one kind of judges of solo singing or playing, who will judge of rhapsodists, flute-players, harp-players and the like, and another of choruses. |
the virtue of the romans, engendered by their horror of tyranny and the crimes of tyrants, and by an innate patriotism, made all their houses so many schools of citizenship; while the unlimited power of fathers over their children made the individual |
in short, generally and in every case a body is relatively light when it contains a relatively large amount of void. this is the way they put it themselves, but their account requires an addition. |
but, if he had arranged them, there are many indications that this is not the place which he would have assigned to the timaeus. we observe, first of all, that the dialogue is put into the mouth of a pythagorean philosopher, and not of socrates. |
vi. chords are said to be equally distant from the centre when the perpendiculars drawn to them from the centre are equal. |
the third is that already given above, to the effect that the flying arrow is at rest, which result follows from the assumption that time is composed of moments: if this assumption is not granted, the conclusion will not follow. |
the matter would not be difficult, upon such conditions, replied he: and if you please, i shall suppose myself epicurus for a moment, and make you stand for the athenian people, and shall deliver you such an harangue as will fill all the urn with white |
there is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, |
art thou a new strength and a new authority? a first motion? a self-rolling wheel? canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee? |
therefore i. vi. ge is equal to gf. in like manner fd is equal to db. |
in religious diaries a sort of drama is often enacted by the consciences of men "accusing or else excusing them." for all our life long we are talking with ourselves:-what is thought but speech? what is feeling but rhetoric? |
take notice why he says he rejoiced, why he says that he was grieved; and then you will be more easily able to decide the question of peace. |
this is a point which anaxagoras seems to have thoroughly grasped; for he starts his cosmogony from unmoved things. the others, it is true, make things collect together somehow before they try to produce motion and separation. |
the poets very well understood this when they put all greece and asia to fire and sword about an apple. |
i said "up to perseus" and did not take the descent from a yet higher point, because there is no name mentioned of a mortal father for perseus, as amphitryon is for heracles. |
for the helmsman knows and prescribes what sort of form a helm should have, the other from what wood it should be made and by means of what operations. |
if then, socrates, amid the many opinions about the gods and the generation of the universe, we are not able to give notions which are altogether and in every respect exact and consistent with one another, do not be surprised. |
time obviously is what is counted, not that with which we count: there are different kinds of thing.) just as motion is a perpetual succession, so also is time. |
but the circular movement is natural, since otherwise it could not be eternal: for nothing unnatural is eternal. the unnatural is subsequent to the natural, being a derangement of the natural which occurs in the course of its generation. |
the sphere then will be spherical throughout; for every body within it is contiguous and continuous with spheres. |
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