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... who are the greatest travellers of any nation , where they may meet with a quiet easy settlement , far from all prosecutions , law - suits , and sycophant informers , to pass the remainder of their lives in peace and liberty .
... who are the greatest travellers of any nation , where they may meet with a quiet easy settlement , far from all prosecutions , law - suits , and sycophant informers , to pass the remainder of their lives in peace and liberty .
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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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An ambassador , or licensed spy from Athens , arrives , and a legislator with a body of new laws . They are used with abundance of indignity , and go off threatening every body with a prosecution . The sacred rites being so often ...
An ambassador , or licensed spy from Athens , arrives , and a legislator with a body of new laws . They are used with abundance of indignity , and go off threatening every body with a prosecution . The sacred rites being so often ...
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Pisthetærus allows it indeed to be the custom of his people ; but at the same time informs him of an ancient law preserved among the storks , that they shall maintain their parents in their old age . This is not at all agreeable to the ...
Pisthetærus allows it indeed to be the custom of his people ; but at the same time informs him of an ancient law preserved among the storks , that they shall maintain their parents in their old age . This is not at all agreeable to the ...
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Pisthetærus clearly proves to Hercules that this is a mere imposition ; that by the laws of Solon a bastard has no inheritance ; that if Jove died without legitimate issue , his brothers would succeed to his estate , and that Neptune ...
Pisthetærus clearly proves to Hercules that this is a mere imposition ; that by the laws of Solon a bastard has no inheritance ; that if Jove died without legitimate issue , his brothers would succeed to his estate , and that Neptune ...
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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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