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... founded during the plague . Ageladas the Argive , the scholar of Phidias . had a house at Melite . Statue by Callias 511. A manner of civilly refusing a thing : Eraivo . καλλιστα . πανυ καλως . 546. See the history of Theramenes . Schol ...
... founded during the plague . Ageladas the Argive , the scholar of Phidias . had a house at Melite . Statue by Callias 511. A manner of civilly refusing a thing : Eraivo . καλλιστα . πανυ καλως . 546. See the history of Theramenes . Schol ...
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... See Theophrasti Charact : Tepi Deloidaiμovias , c . 16 , and Plato de Republ . L. 4 , p . 427 , where he calls the Delphian Apollo , Εξηγητης πατριος . founded on childish fables and on arbitrary forms and institutions 102 NOTES ON PLATO .
... See Theophrasti Charact : Tepi Deloidaiμovias , c . 16 , and Plato de Republ . L. 4 , p . 427 , where he calls the Delphian Apollo , Εξηγητης πατριος . founded on childish fables and on arbitrary forms and institutions 102 NOTES ON PLATO .
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Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. founded on childish fables and on arbitrary forms and institutions . The intention of the dialogue seems to be , to expose the vulgar notions of piety , founded on traditions un- worthy of the divinity , and ...
Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. founded on childish fables and on arbitrary forms and institutions . The intention of the dialogue seems to be , to expose the vulgar notions of piety , founded on traditions un- worthy of the divinity , and ...
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... founded on truth ; it represents the true spirit and disposition of Socrates , and many of the topicks used in it are agreeable to those which we find in Xenophon , 1 and which were doubtless used by Socrates himself ; as where he ...
... founded on truth ; it represents the true spirit and disposition of Socrates , and many of the topicks used in it are agreeable to those which we find in Xenophon , 1 and which were doubtless used by Socrates himself ; as where he ...
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... founded , were originally conveyed to our mind , there must have been a pre - existent state , in which the soul was acquainted with these truths , which she recollects and assents to on their recurring to her in this life . That , as ...
... founded , were originally conveyed to our mind , there must have been a pre - existent state , in which the soul was acquainted with these truths , which she recollects and assents to on their recurring to her in this life . That , as ...
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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.