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Page 78
Thus , for instance , he relates the beautiful fable between 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 ...
Thus , for instance , he relates the beautiful fable between 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 ...
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Every one had a smattering of elo- quence and of reasoning , and every one would make a figure and govern ; but no one would be governed : the authority of age and of virtue was lost and overborne ...
Every one had a smattering of elo- quence and of reasoning , and every one would make a figure and govern ; but no one would be governed : the authority of age and of virtue was lost and overborne ...
Page 120
By interrogating Laches and Nicias , he shews , that such as had the highest reputation for courage in practice , were often very deficient in the theory ; and yet none can com- municate a virtue he possesses , without he has himself a ...
By interrogating Laches and Nicias , he shews , that such as had the highest reputation for courage in practice , were often very deficient in the theory ; and yet none can com- municate a virtue he possesses , without he has himself a ...
Page 121
... and that , consequently , we must first distinguish between real good and evil ; and that it is closely connected with the other virtues , namely , justice , temperance , and piety , nor can it ever subsist without them .
... and that , consequently , we must first distinguish between real good and evil ; and that it is closely connected with the other virtues , namely , justice , temperance , and piety , nor can it ever subsist without them .
Page 134
THE subject of the dialogue is this : That 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 .
THE subject of the dialogue is this : That 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 .
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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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