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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... effect of their religious and 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 ...
... effect of their religious and 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 ...
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... effects . He , as well as his wife Phæstis , a descendant of one of the Chalcidian colonists of Stagirus , died while Aristotle was yet a minor , leaving him under the guardianship of Proxenus , a citizen of Atarneus in Asia , who ...
... effects . He , as well as his wife Phæstis , a descendant of one of the Chalcidian colonists of Stagirus , died while Aristotle was yet a minor , leaving him under the guardianship of Proxenus , a citizen of Atarneus in Asia , who ...
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... effect of converting him into a mere bookworm . In his works we see nothing like an undue depreciation of the active forms of life , or even of its pleasures . And this is the more remarkable , as we know that his frame was delicate ...
... effect of converting him into a mere bookworm . In his works we see nothing like an undue depreciation of the active forms of life , or even of its pleasures . And this is the more remarkable , as we know that his frame was delicate ...
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... effect of perplexing him and obliging him to retire in confusion and shame from the walks of the Academy . Xe- nocrates , however , returning three months after , drove Aristotle away , and restored his master to his old haunts . On ...
... effect of perplexing him and obliging him to retire in confusion and shame from the walks of the Academy . Xe- nocrates , however , returning three months after , drove Aristotle away , and restored his master to his old haunts . On ...
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... effect in the eighth book of his Politics , which is entirely devoted to the details of this subject ' . And although Alexander was only thirteen years old when his connection with Aristotle commenced , yet the seeds of many vices had ...
... effect in the eighth book of his Politics , which is entirely devoted to the details of this subject ' . And although Alexander was only thirteen years old when his connection with Aristotle commenced , yet the seeds of many vices had ...
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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.