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Page 92
... continued , though not the force of it : for Æschines speaking of the discipline young men were subject to , from about the age of eighteen to twenty , has these words ; Пas ὁ του μειρακίσκου χρονος εστιν ὑπο Σωφρονιστας , και την επι ...
... continued , though not the force of it : for Æschines speaking of the discipline young men were subject to , from about the age of eighteen to twenty , has these words ; Пas ὁ του μειρακίσκου χρονος εστιν ὑπο Σωφρονιστας , και την επι ...
Page 109
... continued but one day . See also Xenophon in Apomnem : L. 1. c . 1 , where a clearer account is given of the same fact , where he is called Bouλeurηs and ETIOTATNS EV TW Anuw . See also Plato's Gorgias , p . 473 , and Corsinus Fast ...
... continued but one day . See also Xenophon in Apomnem : L. 1. c . 1 , where a clearer account is given of the same fact , where he is called Bouλeurηs and ETIOTATNS EV TW Anuw . See also Plato's Gorgias , p . 473 , and Corsinus Fast ...
Page 146
... continued on the throne about six years longer . So in p . 503 , in those words , Περικλεα τουτονι τον νεωστι τετελευτη‐ KOTα , we must understand NewσT in the same manner , for Pericles had been dead 23 years , but the time is there ...
... continued on the throne about six years longer . So in p . 503 , in those words , Περικλεα τουτονι τον νεωστι τετελευτη‐ KOTα , we must understand NewσT in the same manner , for Pericles had been dead 23 years , but the time is there ...
Page 179
... continued neuter , or joined the Athenians , and Elis particularly entered into a defensive league with them this very year , ( see Thucyd . L. 5. sect . 47 ) so that when Athenæus says , μη της εχεχειρίας αυτης μενούσης , it is plain ...
... continued neuter , or joined the Athenians , and Elis particularly entered into a defensive league with them this very year , ( see Thucyd . L. 5. sect . 47 ) so that when Athenæus says , μη της εχεχειρίας αυτης μενούσης , it is plain ...
Page 194
... continued discourses , and who intreats him to bring down the greatness of his talents to the level of a mind so much inferiour , he is forced to pick a frivolous quarrel with Socrates , and break off the conversation in the middle ...
... continued discourses , and who intreats him to bring down the greatness of his talents to the level of a mind so much inferiour , he is forced to pick a frivolous quarrel with Socrates , and break off the conversation in the middle ...
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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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