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... and apply it to several whimsical cases ; and they invite all such , as would be free from the heavy tyranny of human laws , to live among them , where it is no sin to beat one's father , or to lie with one's mother , & c . & c .
... and apply it to several whimsical cases ; and they invite all such , as would be free from the heavy tyranny of human laws , to live among them , where it is no sin to beat one's father , or to lie with one's mother , & c . & c .
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She tells her name , and that she was sent by Jove with orders to mankind , that they should keep holiday , and perform a grand sacrifice : she wonders at their sauciness and madness , and threatens them with all her father's thunder .
She tells her name , and that she was sent by Jove with orders to mankind , that they should keep holiday , and perform a grand sacrifice : she wonders at their sauciness and madness , and threatens them with all her father's thunder .
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The first , who appears , is a profligate young fellow , who hopes to enjoy a liberty , which he could not enjoy so well at home , the liberty of beating his father . Pisthetærus allows it indeed to be the custom of his people ; but at ...
The first , who appears , is a profligate young fellow , who hopes to enjoy a liberty , which he could not enjoy so well at home , the liberty of beating his father . Pisthetærus allows it indeed to be the custom of his people ; but at ...
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he is used to swear against for an honest livelihood , as did , he says , his fathers before him . The birds , in the ensuing chorus , relate their travels , and describe the strange things and strange men they have seen in them .
he is used to swear against for an honest livelihood , as did , he says , his fathers before him . The birds , in the ensuing chorus , relate their travels , and describe the strange things and strange men they have seen in them .
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The law by which a father could not give his natural son by will more than five minæ . 1675. Disputes between plenipotentiaries , determined by the majority . 1728. Alludes to the Troades of Euripides . 1762. The hymn of Archilochus to ...
The law by which a father could not give his natural son by will more than five minæ . 1675. Disputes between plenipotentiaries , determined by the majority . 1728. Alludes to the Troades of Euripides . 1762. The hymn of Archilochus to ...
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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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