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Page 112
... pains , and necessities of its companion . That , as death is but a transition from its opposite , 1 life ( in the same manner as heat is from cold , i This was an idea of Pythagoras . Εν βιω αρχη τελευτης εν Śwn de gevegis poopās .
... pains , and necessities of its companion . That , as death is but a transition from its opposite , 1 life ( in the same manner as heat is from cold , i This was an idea of Pythagoras . Εν βιω αρχη τελευτης εν Śwn de gevegis poopās .
Page 114
the soul , being the cause of life to the body , can never itself be susceptible of death ; and that , there will be a state of rewards and punishments , the scene of which he takes pains in describing , though he concludes , that no ...
the soul , being the cause of life to the body , can never itself be susceptible of death ; and that , there will be a state of rewards and punishments , the scene of which he takes pains in describing , though he concludes , that no ...
Page 126
... and scarcely any perception of the present , which would be much like the life of an oyster : on the other hand , a life of thought and reflection , without any sense of pleasure or of pain , seems no desirable state .
... and scarcely any perception of the present , which would be much like the life of an oyster : on the other hand , a life of thought and reflection , without any sense of pleasure or of pain , seems no desirable state .
Page 127
Pleasure and pain , having no bounds 1 in themselves , are of the nature of the infinite . P. 28. The supreme power and wisdom of the Deity asserted . But a small portion of the several elements is visible in our frame .
Pleasure and pain , having no bounds 1 in themselves , are of the nature of the infinite . P. 28. The supreme power and wisdom of the Deity asserted . But a small portion of the several elements is visible in our frame .
Page 128
Excess of cold is attended with a sensation of pain , and warmth brings with it an equal pleasure . Pleasures and pains of the soul alone arise from the expectation of pleasure or pain of the body : these are hopes and fears ...
Excess of cold is attended with a sensation of pain , and warmth brings with it an equal pleasure . Pleasures and pains of the soul alone arise from the expectation of pleasure or pain of the body : these are hopes and fears ...
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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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