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... Italy and Spain , and in other hot countries . Xenoph . Græc . Hist . L. 5. p . 557 . Ib . Ασιτον και αποτον . ] The cicada is an animal with wings , the size of a man's thumb , of a dark brown colour , which sits on the trees and sings ...
... Italy and Spain , and in other hot countries . Xenoph . Græc . Hist . L. 5. p . 557 . Ib . Ασιτον και αποτον . ] The cicada is an animal with wings , the size of a man's thumb , of a dark brown colour , which sits on the trees and sings ...
Page 83
... Italy in the NOTES . Leontines , Ol . 88. 2. ( See Diod . Sic . L. 12 , p . 313. ) when Socrates was about forty - three years old . ( V. Ciceronem in Bruto , et Quintil . L. 3. c . 1. ) Tisias and Corax of Syracuse , and Gorgias the ...
... Italy in the NOTES . Leontines , Ol . 88. 2. ( See Diod . Sic . L. 12 , p . 313. ) when Socrates was about forty - three years old . ( V. Ciceronem in Bruto , et Quintil . L. 3. c . 1. ) Tisias and Corax of Syracuse , and Gorgias the ...
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... Italian Greeks were noted for the luxury of the table . See Plato Epist . 7 . p . 326 and 336 . Ρ . 519. Σου δε ισως επιληψονται . ] I do not find what became of Callicles ; but Alcibiades had already fled from his country , for fear of ...
... Italian Greeks were noted for the luxury of the table . See Plato Epist . 7 . p . 326 and 336 . Ρ . 519. Σου δε ισως επιληψονται . ] I do not find what became of Callicles ; but Alcibiades had already fled from his country , for fear of ...
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... and to others of Chalcidick foundation in the island , and also to Rhegium in Italy ; ( see Bentley on Phalaris , p . 364 , & c . ) these laws were calculated for an aristocracy . P. 602. Their art concurs with the senses to deceive.
... and to others of Chalcidick foundation in the island , and also to Rhegium in Italy ; ( see Bentley on Phalaris , p . 364 , & c . ) these laws were calculated for an aristocracy . P. 602. Their art concurs with the senses to deceive.
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... Italy ( Thucyd . L. 6 . p . 349. ) by these Opici some years after the Trojan war , and settling in a part of this Island . This name grew into a term of reproach , which the more polished Greeks bestowed upon the Romans , as Cato the ...
... Italy ( Thucyd . L. 6 . p . 349. ) by these Opici some years after the Trojan war , and settling in a part of this Island . This name grew into a term of reproach , which the more polished Greeks bestowed upon the Romans , as Cato the ...
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Page 217 - ... not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances...
Page 269 - Druids held the immortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punishments...
Page 127 - Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not; it is what 'eye hath not seen, ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive'.
Page 127 - ... in its natural state. But yet excess of cold as well as heat pains us, because it is equally destructive to that temper which is necessary to the preservation of life, and the exercise of the several functions of the body, and which consists in a moderate degree of warmth ; or, if you please, a motion of the insensible parts of our bodies, confined within certain bounds.
Page 212 - who are possessed of this faculty,' (that is, of fetching a voice from the belly or stomach) 'can manage their voice in so wonderful a manner that it shall seem to come from what part they please, not of themselves only, but of any other person in the company, or even from the bottom of a well, down a chimney, from below stairs, &c. &c. of which I myself have been witness.
Page 241 - there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right.
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| Title | Notes on Aristophanes and Plato Volume 4 of The Works of Thomas Gray: In Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse Volume 4 of Works in Prose and Verse, Edmund Gosse |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | Edmund Gosse |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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