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Page 78
... Virtue and Pleasure after Prodicus ; he treats of the miseries of human life in the words of the same sophist ; he describes the state of souls after death from the information of Gobryas , one of the Magi ; he makes a panegyrick on ...
... Virtue and Pleasure after Prodicus ; he treats of the miseries of human life in the words of the same sophist ; he describes the state of souls after death from the information of Gobryas , one of the Magi ; he makes a panegyrick on ...
Page 99
... virtue was lost and overborne , and wit and a fluency of words supplied the place of experience and of common sense . See the character of Hippocrates in the Protagoras , p . 312 : and Plato himself gives this as the characteristick of ...
... virtue was lost and overborne , and wit and a fluency of words supplied the place of experience and of common sense . See the character of Hippocrates in the Protagoras , p . 312 : and Plato himself gives this as the characteristick of ...
Page 120
... virtue he possesses , without he has himself a clear idea of it . He proves , that valour must have NOTES . P. 197. Aaμaxov . ] See his character in Plutarch in Nicias's life , and in Thucydides , and in Aristophanes in Acharnens : he ...
... virtue he possesses , without he has himself a clear idea of it . He proves , that valour must have NOTES . P. 197. Aaμaxov . ] See his character in Plutarch in Nicias's life , and in Thucydides , and in Aristophanes in Acharnens : he ...
Page 121
... virtues , namely , justice , temperance , and piety , nor can it ever subsist without them . The scope of this fine dialogue is to shew , that philosophy is the school of true bravery . The time of this dialogue is not long after the ...
... virtues , namely , justice , temperance , and piety , nor can it ever subsist without them . The scope of this fine dialogue is to shew , that philosophy is the school of true bravery . The time of this dialogue is not long after the ...
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... virtue is knowledge , and that true philosophy alone can give us that knowledge . I see nothing in this dialogue to make one think that Plato intended to raise the character of Meno . He is introduced as a young man who seems to value ...
... virtue is knowledge , and that true philosophy alone can give us that knowledge . I see nothing in this dialogue to make one think that Plato intended to raise the character of Meno . He is introduced as a young man who seems to value ...
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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.