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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... collected , and the arrangement , description , and illustration of these became the principal business of men of ... collection under the title οἱ τὰ ἐκ πλοίων , " the books taken out of ships . " ( Galen , cited by Wolf , Proleg ...
... collected , and the arrangement , description , and illustration of these became the principal business of men of ... collection under the title οἱ τὰ ἐκ πλοίων , " the books taken out of ships . " ( Galen , cited by Wolf , Proleg ...
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... collections . To this stage belongs the work of Dioge- nes Laertius , a part of which forms the nucleus of all modern biographies of Aristotle , as well as of Plato and most of the early Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period ...
... collections . To this stage belongs the work of Dioge- nes Laertius , a part of which forms the nucleus of all modern biographies of Aristotle , as well as of Plato and most of the early Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period ...
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... collection of books was a luxury which lay within the reach of as small a portion of the readers of that day , as a ... collections . We know this for certain of Theo- phrastus , Strato , and Lycon ; ( Diog . Laert . v . 52 , 62 , 73 ...
... collection of books was a luxury which lay within the reach of as small a portion of the readers of that day , as a ... collections . We know this for certain of Theo- phrastus , Strato , and Lycon ; ( Diog . Laert . v . 52 , 62 , 73 ...
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... collection of Proverbs ( apoiμiaι , ) a species of literature to which he , like most other men of reflection , attached great value . Two other most important works , both of which are likewise lost , we may , from what we know of ...
... collection of Proverbs ( apoiμiaι , ) a species of literature to which he , like most other men of reflection , attached great value . Two other most important works , both of which are likewise lost , we may , from what we know of ...
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... collection a great many scraps remain . Those which re- late to Athens , Sigonius is said to have made the basis of his account of that commonwealth . And another work for which these apparently formed the foundation , the Politics ...
... collection a great many scraps remain . Those which re- late to Athens , Sigonius is said to have made the basis of his account of that commonwealth . And another work for which these apparently formed the foundation , the Politics ...
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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.