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travelled much and have undergone much hardship, for it was nearly eight years before i could get home with my fleet. |
the nearest way by land through tuscany to rome; which was no sooner known by the people, than they all flocked out to meet him upon the way, as if they had not sent him out but few days before. |
of it. it is clear, therefore, that there are cases of occasional motion and occasional rest. |
for the subjective laws, under which alone an empirical cognition of things is possible, hold good of these things, as objects of possible experience (not as things in themselves, which are not considered here). |
then, as his army was in want of food, sixteen he crossed over from lesbos to reap the corn in atarneus and also that in the plain of the caicos, which belonged to the mysians. |
hence one should not be too sure of the incredibility of the view of those who conceive that there is continuity between the parts about the pillars of hercules and the parts about india, and that in this way the ocean is one. |
it happens, indeed, to be the case that a thing to which movement this way and that is equally inappropriate is obliged to remain at the centre. |
and fall short. eternity or the eternal is not merely the unlimited in time but the truest of all being, the most real of all realities, the most certain of all knowledge, which we nevertheless only see through a glass darkly. |
in the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall. |
what wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! doth not-man's future strive and struggle in you? |
for we suppose that the same agent produces a given effect on a greater and a smaller mass in longer and shorter times, the times and masses varying proportionately. there is thus no finite time in which infinites can move one another. |
a new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. such has swedenborg, such has kant, such has coleridge, such has hegel or his interpreter cousin seemed to many young men in this country. |
least there would be some one thing to be found in the world, amongst so many as there are, that would be believed by men with an universal consent; but this, that there is no one proposition that is not debated and controverted amongst us, or that may |
o light, no light to me, but mine erewhile, now the last time i feel thee palpable, for i am drawing near the final gloom of hades. blessing on thee, dearest friend, on thee and on thy land and followers! |
complex idea of gold, as its colour and weight: which, if duly considered, are also nothing but different powers. |
tolophonians, hessians, and oeanthians, all of whom joined in the expedition; the olpaeans contenting themselves with giving hostages, without accompanying the invasion; and the hyaeans refusing to do either, until the capture of polis, one of their |
so when fire or earth is moved by something the motion is violent when it is unnatural, and natural when it brings to actuality the proper activities that they potentially possess. |
before us. seeing, however, that contraries may be conjoined in more than one way, we have to select from those contraries the one whose contrary definition seems most obvious. |
antipater had for a pupil epitimedes of cyrene, who was the master of parbates, who was the master of hegesias, who was surnamed (persuading to die), and of anniceris who ransomed plato. |
there would have been no description of cruelty which he would not have practised? |
ground to rest upon. for they are not based upon experience and its known laws; and, without experience, they are a merely arbitrary conjunction of thoughts, which, though containing no internal contradiction, has no claim to objective reality, neither, |
what a day was that for you, o marcus antonius! although you showed yourself all on a sudden an enemy to me; still i pity you for having envied yourself. |
symbolical anthropomorphism, which in fact concerns language only, and not the object itself. |
well then, he is thought to be great-minded who values himself highly and at the same time justly, because he that does so without grounds is foolish, and no virtuous character is foolish or senseless. well, the character i have described is great-minded. |
the value of a human soul, like the value of a man's life to himself, is inestimable, and cannot be reckoned in earthly or material things. the human being alone has the consciousness of truth and justice and love, which is the consciousness of god. |
that one may be unacquainted with these truths till he hears them from others. |
words, they are incapable of demonstration. |
for, as we affirm, a thing can only remain the same with itself, whole and sound, when the same is added to it, or subtracted from it, in the same respect and in the same manner and in due proportion; and whatever comes or goes away in violation of these |
thirty one. origin of our ideas of duration, and of the measures of it. |
reason and by what providence of the gods; and holding fast to probability, we must pursue our way. |
suppose the weightless body to move the distance four hundred, while b in the same time moves the distance ce, which will be greater since the heavy thing must move further. |
here finished he, and all that he had made viewed, and behold all was entirely good; so even and morn accomplished the sixth day: yet not till the creator from his work desisting, though unwearied, up returned, up to the heaven of heavens, his high abode; |
it would seem, however that we must reject this solution, since clearly we could thus make all equivocal attributes univocal and say merely that that contains each of them is different in different cases: thus 'equality', 'sweetness', and 'whiteness' will |
the gods show us signs of future events; if we are occasionally deceived in the results, it is not to be imputed to the nature of the gods, but to the conjectures of men. |
again, in right of the feelings we are neither praised nor blamed, ten (for a man is not commended for being afraid or being angry, nor blamed for being angry merely but for being so in a particular way), but in right of the virtues and vices we are. |
the most systematic and consistent theory, however, and one that applied to all bodies, was advanced by leucippus and democritus: and, in maintaining it, they took as their starting-point what naturally comes first. |
common benefits, are to be communicate with all; but peculiar benefits, with choice. and beware how in making the portraiture, thou breakest the pattern. |
the swineherd now took up the bow and was for taking it to ulysses, but the suitors clamoured at him from all parts of the cloisters, and one of them said, "you idiot, where are you taking the bow to? are you out of your wits? |
aut quis potius, qui ea non studiosissime persequatur? sed quia nusquam possumus nisi in laude, decore, honestate utilia reperire, propterea illa prima et summa habemus, utilitatis nomen non tam splendidum quam necessarium ducimus. |
grew not older by a moment. his singleness of purpose and resolution, and his elevated piety, endowed him, without his knowledge, with perennial youth. |
such was the life of the man, and such was his death. |
virtue and vice; which "alters not the nature of things," though men generally do judge of and denominate their actions according to the esteem and fashion of the place and sect they are of. |
() add ed, and we have in each case ae equal to df, and ba is equal to four hundred xxxiv. . hence the triangles bae, cdf have the two sides ba, ae in one respectively equal to the two sides four hundred, df in the other, and the angle bae xxix. |
socrates, having already guarded against objections by distinguishing courage and knowledge from pleasure and good, proceeds:-the good are good by the presence of good, and the bad are bad by the presence of evil. |
and especially do their teachers of submission shout this;-but precisely in their ears do i love to cry: "yea! i am zarathustra, the godless!" |
two. if a variable circle be touched by one of two fixed circles internally, and touch the other fixed circle either externally or internally, the sum of the distances of its centre from the centres of the fixed circles is equal to the sum or the |
therefore he is not speaking of this person at all. another of his illustrations was, "that which is shown to me, is not a vegetable; for a vegetable existed ten thousand years ago, therefore this is not a vegetable." |
their own in the same way. the hellenes in sicily would fear us most if we never went there at all, and next to this, if after displaying our power we went away again as soon as possible. |
where the prophet speaking of the messiah, saith, "the spirit of the lord shall abide upon him, the spirit of wisdome and understanding, the spirit of counsell, and fortitude; and the spirit of the fear of the lord." |
many, being determined to rid their soul from the continual alarms of this appetite, have made use of incision and amputation of the rebelling members; others have subdued their force and ardour by the frequent application of cold things, as snow and |
this matter also shall be cleared up in what follows: but for the present so much is clear, that the reason why there is more than one circular body is the necessity of generation, which follows on the presence of fire, which, with that of the other |
the same reasoning applies equally to magnitude, to time, and to motion: either all of these are composed of indivisibles and are divisible into indivisibles, or none. this may be made clear as follows. |
idea of god in the world of thought (objective). |
whereas, on the contrary, it seems as if men studied this foolish daring of language, to reduce god to their own measure:-- |
for a while, as the men scrambled up where each best could, the natives kept up a fire of arrows and darts, yet did not receive them at close quarters, but presently left the position in flight. |
breadth' exists although it does not, but does not use the diagrams in the sense that he reasons from them. |
it is evident, then, that a process of change cannot be infinite in the sense that it is not defined by limits. |
this being so, then, the view was suggested that perhaps it may be possible for motion to come to be in a thing without having been in existence at all before, because we see this actually occurring in animals: they are unmoved at one time and then again |
who carried his robe and a censer for sacrifices, and for the most part carried his trunk himself. |
the sum of all the plane angles (bac, cad, c.) forming any solid angle (a) is less than four right angles. |
hath bestowed worlds, and on whom hath all these graces poured; that both in him and all things, as is meet, the universal maker we may praise; who justly hath driven out his rebel foes to deepest hell, and, to repair that loss, created this new happy |
the sameness or diversity of that and some other thing, and to tell how and when and where individuals are affected or related, whether in the world of change or of essence. |
appuleia varilia, grand-niece of augustus, was accused of treason by an informer for having ridiculed the divine augustus, tiberius, and tiberius's mother, in some insulting remarks, and for having been convicted of adultery, allied though she was to |
one. sensation, remembrance, contemplation, c., modes of thinking. |
some cases not fairly, and thus made it easier for their neighbours to prevail against them. |
there is a third class of diseases which may be conceived of as arising in three ways; for they are produced sometimes by wind, and sometimes by phlegm, and sometimes by bile. |
and we mistake if we think that these incommodities serve it for a spur and a seasoning to its sweetness (as in nature one contrary is quickened by another), or say, when we come to virtue, that like consequences and difficulties overwhelm and render it |
preparation for it, as you know, there was little enough; and the object of our voyage was not so much to fight at sea as an expedition by land. |
is none to them that distinguish between what is, and what is not necessary to salvation |
one day, however, as i was splitting wood, i thought that i would just look in at the window and see if the house was not on fire; it was the only time i remember to have been particularly anxious on this score; so i looked and saw that a spark had caught |
haunches to the ground and punishes him sorely. |
moreover, examine the inflected forms. for if 'justly' has more than one meaning, then 'just', also, will be used with more than one meaning; for there will be a meaning of 'just' to each of the meanings of 'justly'; e.g. |
therein: and we see that this is what equally befalls the healing, shipbuilding, cloth-making, and indeed all other arts; so that it evidently belongs to the same art to find out what kind of government is best, and would of all others be most |
for suppose that it is changing from ab to bg-either from one magnitude to another, or from one form to another, or from some state to its contradictory-and let five hundred be the primary time in which it undergoes the change. |
and therefore the romans, that had conquered the greatest part of the then known world, made no scruple of tollerating any religion whatsoever in the city of rome it selfe; unlesse it had somthing in it, that could not consist with their civill |
restoring people here, expelling there, and killing here, filling evermore his purse: and at the isthmus gave a treat, to be laughed at, of cold meat, which they ate, and prayed the gods some one else might give the feast another year. |
by which it is evident, that bishop, pastor, elder, doctor, that is to say, teacher, were but so many divers names of the same office in the time of the apostles. for there was then no government by coercion, but only by doctrine, and perswading. |
yes, said cebes; with such natures, beyond question. |
ts'ao kung says: "the officers are energetic and want to press on, the common soldiers are feeble and suddenly collapse." |
timus, being to instruct socrates in what he knew of the gods, the world, and men, proposes to speak to him as a man to a man; and that it is sufficient, if his reasons are probable as those of another; for that exact reasons were neither in his nor any |
ye would still create a world before which ye can bow the knee: such is your ultimate hope and ecstasy. |
questioned by nero as to the motives which had led him on to forget his oath of allegiance, "i hated you," he replied; "yet not a soldier was more loyal to you while you deserved to be loved. |
"but in the case of so-called self-subsistent things, is a thing necessarily the same as its essence? e.g. |
could never change if it was never generated. if, on the other hand, the worlds are infinite in number the view is more plausible. but whether this is, or is not, impossible will be clear from what follows. |
dem.-since a : b :: a : b, we have a- b a- b in like manner, b c b c. hence, multiplying, a- c a c. therefore a : c :: a : c, and similarly for any number of magnitudes in each set. |
their future birth and human lot. they were to be sown in the planets, and out of them was to come forth the most religious of animals, which would hereafter be called man. |
twenty four. what are congruent figures? |
gives food to the body; but the river of speech, which flows out of a man and ministers to the intelligence, is the fairest and noblest of all streams. |
and even if this were accepted, there are other implications equally unsatisfactory. we do not expect a mass of matter to be made heavier by compression. |
for thus we define the whole-that from which nothing is wanting, as a whole man or a whole box. what is true of each particular is true of the whole as such-the whole is that of which nothing is outside. |
meant to set out after telling him; then this, that, and the other thing occurred.' |
priori, whether such a conception be not quite void and without any corresponding object among phenomena. |
i follow mei yao-ch'en here. the other commentators refer not to the ruler, as in thirteen, fourteen, but to the officers he employs. |
the charge of premature generalization which is often urged against ancient philosophers is really an anachronism. for they can hardly be said to have generalized at all. |
still clutching what they had seized; and presently here and there a wounded man; and mighty was the jostling about the portals. |
then the sword being brought in by a little boy, cato took it, drew it out, and looked at it; and when he saw the point was good, "now," said he, "i am master of myself;" and laying down the sword, he took his book again, which, it is related, he read |
naturalis). for human reason, without any instigations imputable to the mere vanity of great knowledge, unceasingly progresses, urged on by its own feeling of need, towards such questions as cannot be answered by any empirical application of reason, or |
from moist and dry are derived (iii) the fine and coarse, viscous and brittle, hard and soft, and the remaining tangible differences. |
next they enslaved scyros, the island in the aegean, containing a dolopian population, and colonized it themselves. this was followed by a war against carystus, in which the rest of euboea remained neutral, and which was ended by surrender on conditions. |
so that i plainly discover by the light of nature , that the ideas , which are in me, are (as it were) pictures , which may easily come short of the perfection of those things from whence they are taken, but cannot contain any thing greater or more |
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