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... reasons for not before exhibiting any drama in his own name . 586. The comick chorus ( as the Scholiast informs us , and see also Aves , v . 298 ) consisted of twenty - four persons , the tragick chorus but of fifteen . They were ...
... reasons for not before exhibiting any drama in his own name . 586. The comick chorus ( as the Scholiast informs us , and see also Aves , v . 298 ) consisted of twenty - four persons , the tragick chorus but of fifteen . They were ...
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... 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 another , which shews his œconomy and prudence ; for ...
... 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 another , which shews his œconomy and prudence ; for ...
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... reasons . He tells them the happiness of living among the birds ; they are much pleased with the liberty and simplicity of it ; and Pisthetærus , a shrewd old fellow , proposes a scheme to improve it , and make them a far more power ...
... reasons . He tells them the happiness of living among the birds ; they are much pleased with the liberty and simplicity of it ; and Pisthetærus , a shrewd old fellow , proposes a scheme to improve it , and make them a far more power ...
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... reason- able pretence to give the thing up . The Triballian god is asked his opinion for form : he mutters some- what , which nobody understands , and so it passes for his consent . Here they are going in to dinner , and all is well ...
... reason- able pretence to give the thing up . The Triballian god is asked his opinion for form : he mutters some- what , which nobody understands , and so it passes for his consent . Here they are going in to dinner , and all is well ...
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... reasons he had for preferring death to life , his account of the oracle given to Chærepho , and the remarkable allusion to Palamedes , 2 & c . the ground - work is manifestly the same , though the expressions are different . In one 1 ...
... reasons he had for preferring death to life , his account of the oracle given to Chærepho , and the remarkable allusion to Palamedes , 2 & c . the ground - work is manifestly the same , though the expressions are different . In one 1 ...
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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.