A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... Athens , is also to be added to the number of his early bio- graphers . But independently of such works as these ... Athen . p . 354 . 6 Diog . Laert . ii . 23. v . 3 . 7 See the stories which were related in it of Protagoras , also ...
... Athens , is also to be added to the number of his early bio- graphers . But independently of such works as these ... Athen . p . 354 . 6 Diog . Laert . ii . 23. v . 3 . 7 See the stories which were related in it of Protagoras , also ...
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... Athens as a scholar of Plato when seventeen years old . After remaining there twenty years , he visited the court of Hermias ( a prince of Asia Minor of whom we shall say more in the sequel , ) in the year after his master's death ...
... Athens as a scholar of Plato when seventeen years old . After remaining there twenty years , he visited the court of Hermias ( a prince of Asia Minor of whom we shall say more in the sequel , ) in the year after his master's death ...
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... of the great 1 Suidas , sub v . Nikóμaxos . Cited and translated by Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , Vol . iii . p . 385. See also Plutarch , Vit . Alex . sec . 8 . ORPHAN WHEN YOUNG - COMES TO ATHENS . 15 philosopher.
... of the great 1 Suidas , sub v . Nikóμaxos . Cited and translated by Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , Vol . iii . p . 385. See also Plutarch , Vit . Alex . sec . 8 . ORPHAN WHEN YOUNG - COMES TO ATHENS . 15 philosopher.
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... ATHENS . 15 philosopher was spent with his father at the Macedonian court , in the circumstance of his being selected by Philip , at a period long subsequent , to conduct the education of Alexander . This we shall find an opportunity of ...
... ATHENS . 15 philosopher was spent with his father at the Macedonian court , in the circumstance of his being selected by Philip , at a period long subsequent , to conduct the education of Alexander . This we shall find an opportunity of ...
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... Athens he was for three years the pupil of Socrates1 . The first of these , which rests on the sole authority of one Eumelus , a writer of whom nothing more whatever is known , may perhaps be a feature of the story of Epicurus which we ...
... Athens he was for three years the pupil of Socrates1 . The first of these , which rests on the sole authority of one Eumelus , a writer of whom nothing more whatever is known , may perhaps be a feature of the story of Epicurus which we ...
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