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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... Persia , and from Syriac into Arabic four hundred years later , his writings furnished the Mohammedan con- querors of the East with a germ of science which , but for the effect of their religious and political insti- tutions , might ...
... Persia , and from Syriac into Arabic four hundred years later , his writings furnished the Mohammedan con- querors of the East with a germ of science which , but for the effect of their religious and political insti- tutions , might ...
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... Persian empire had exhibited symptoms of breaking up . Egypt had for a considerable period maintained itself in a state of independence , and the success of the experi- ment had produced the revolt of Phoenicia . The cities of Asia ...
... Persian empire had exhibited symptoms of breaking up . Egypt had for a considerable period maintained itself in a state of independence , and the success of the experi- ment had produced the revolt of Phoenicia . The cities of Asia ...
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... PERSIAN DEPENDANCIES . the Christian era , most of them were in a state of open rebellion . Confederacies of greater or less extent were formed among them for the purpose of maintaining the common independence ; and over one of these ...
... PERSIAN DEPENDANCIES . the Christian era , most of them were in a state of open rebellion . Confederacies of greater or less extent were formed among them for the purpose of maintaining the common independence ; and over one of these ...
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... Persian empire . Ably as such a task would doubtless have been executed by so wise a statesman , as even the fragmentary political work that has come down to us proves Aristotle to have been , it was not blessed with success . Fortune ...
... Persian empire . Ably as such a task would doubtless have been executed by so wise a statesman , as even the fragmentary political work that has come down to us proves Aristotle to have been , it was not blessed with success . Fortune ...
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... Persian ha- rem , or sacrificed to the lust of a brutal soldiery , not 1 Aristocles , ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 2 Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . * ἄλλως σώφρονα καὶ ἀγαθὴν οὖσαν . CALUMNIES AGAINST HIM . 41 a human being would have.
... Persian ha- rem , or sacrificed to the lust of a brutal soldiery , not 1 Aristocles , ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 2 Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . * ἄλλως σώφρονα καὶ ἀγαθὴν οὖσαν . CALUMNIES AGAINST HIM . 41 a human being would have.
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Page 74 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter, he, — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain.