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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... political insti- tutions , might have shot up into as tall a tree as it did produce in the West ; while his logical works , in the Latin translation which Boethius , " the last of the Romans , " bequeathed as a legacy to posterity ...
... political insti- tutions , might have shot up into as tall a tree as it did produce in the West ; while his logical works , in the Latin translation which Boethius , " the last of the Romans , " bequeathed as a legacy to posterity ...
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... Politics ( p . 1258 , line 12. ed . Bekker ) , which seems to have some bearing upon this matter . It may almost be taken as an explanation of his conduct , if it was such as we have supposed . Timæus of Tau- romenium related that at a ...
... Politics ( p . 1258 , line 12. ed . Bekker ) , which seems to have some bearing upon this matter . It may almost be taken as an explanation of his conduct , if it was such as we have supposed . Timæus of Tau- romenium related that at a ...
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... Politics will see that it would be much more accurately described by calling it " a treatise on the spirit of laws ... political constitution , to some one axiom , which was regarded as the generative principle , the idée - mère of the ...
... Politics will see that it would be much more accurately described by calling it " a treatise on the spirit of laws ... political constitution , to some one axiom , which was regarded as the generative principle , the idée - mère of the ...
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... Politics , has come down to us in all probability in the unfinished draught in which it was left at the moment of ... political claims as might be considered obvious appli- cations of these fundamental axioms were called by the name ...
... Politics , has come down to us in all probability in the unfinished draught in which it was left at the moment of ... political claims as might be considered obvious appli- cations of these fundamental axioms were called by the name ...
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... politics . But his want of comprehensiveness was not com- pensated by any superior degree of accuracy or depth , and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ' is right in considering this limitation as the characteristic which distinguishes him from ...
... politics . But his want of comprehensiveness was not com- pensated by any superior degree of accuracy or depth , and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ' is right in considering this limitation as the characteristic which distinguishes him from ...
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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.