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Εσωκρατουν . It seems , that it was now a sort of fashion in Athens , to imitate Socrates in his dress and manner , and to talk philosophy . 1294. This cannot relate ( as Palmerius , deceived by the pseudo - Plutarch who wrote the life ...
Εσωκρατουν . It seems , that it was now a sort of fashion in Athens , to imitate Socrates in his dress and manner , and to talk philosophy . 1294. This cannot relate ( as Palmerius , deceived by the pseudo - Plutarch who wrote the life ...
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... which the poet satirizes , as corrupting and enervating the minds of men , and especially of the younger sort ; and he attributes it to the philosophers , to the sophists , and to the tragick writers , particularly Euripides . 1209.
... which the poet satirizes , as corrupting and enervating the minds of men , and especially of the younger sort ; and he attributes it to the philosophers , to the sophists , and to the tragick writers , particularly Euripides . 1209.
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If this scheme be meant as a satire on Plato's Republick , that work must have been written when the philosopher was not thirty - six years of age . . 974. Alludes to the manner of introducing causes into the courts of justice ...
If this scheme be meant as a satire on Plato's Republick , that work must have been written when the philosopher was not thirty - six years of age . . 974. Alludes to the manner of introducing causes into the courts of justice ...
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... in which he reckons a house he had in the city.1 Critobulus often prevailed upon him to accompany him to the comedy.2 Xantippe , his wife , the most illtempered of women : he made use of her to exercise his philosophy .
... in which he reckons a house he had in the city.1 Critobulus often prevailed upon him to accompany him to the comedy.2 Xantippe , his wife , the most illtempered of women : he made use of her to exercise his philosophy .
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Orithyia and Procris were the daughters of Erectheus . Who Pharmacéa was , I do not find . Ib . Λιαν δε δειν Such disquisitions were the common employments of the sophists and grammarians . foundation of philosophy .
Orithyia and Procris were the daughters of Erectheus . Who Pharmacéa was , I do not find . Ib . Λιαν δε δειν Such disquisitions were the common employments of the sophists and grammarians . foundation of philosophy .
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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...
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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.
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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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