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... imagine , means fetching his voice out of another per- son's belly ; for persons , who have this faculty , often seem to do so . : 1025. Aristophanes - how he demolished Cleon in his Equites his Nubes , written against the school of ...
... imagine , means fetching his voice out of another per- son's belly ; for persons , who have this faculty , often seem to do so . : 1025. Aristophanes - how he demolished Cleon in his Equites his Nubes , written against the school of ...
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... imagine this confusion of the year to be owing to the irregularities before the invention of Meto's cycle , ( which was not received into publick use ) , but to some attempt , per- haps of the magistracy , at this time to introduce that ...
... imagine this confusion of the year to be owing to the irregularities before the invention of Meto's cycle , ( which was not received into publick use ) , but to some attempt , per- haps of the magistracy , at this time to introduce that ...
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... imagine the rest to be , as far as v . 155. The reason why he himself chooses to go to heaven on a beetle , he himself gives us out of Æsop's fables ; Εν τοισιν Αισωπου λογοις εξηυρεθη Μονος πετεινων εις θεους αφιγμενος and he adds ...
... imagine the rest to be , as far as v . 155. The reason why he himself chooses to go to heaven on a beetle , he himself gives us out of Æsop's fables ; Εν τοισιν Αισωπου λογοις εξηυρεθη Μονος πετεινων εις θεους αφιγμενος and he adds ...
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... imagine . 728. The chorus here ( as in Acharnens . v . 626. ) pull off their iμaria , or mantles , or upper garments , that they may dance the Parabasis , or the anapæstick digres- sion , with more ease . 735. Aristophanes banished ( as ...
... imagine . 728. The chorus here ( as in Acharnens . v . 626. ) pull off their iμaria , or mantles , or upper garments , that they may dance the Parabasis , or the anapæstick digres- sion , with more ease . 735. Aristophanes banished ( as ...
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... imagine , that the scene must change at v . 179 , ( where Trygæus arrives at the gates of heaven mounted on his winged steed ) , and from thence to v . 829 , it lies in heaven : but how the chorus get thither I cannot imagine , as they ...
... imagine , that the scene must change at v . 179 , ( where Trygæus arrives at the gates of heaven mounted on his winged steed ) , and from thence to v . 829 , it lies in heaven : but how the chorus get thither I cannot imagine , as they ...
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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.