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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... kind of information on those points of which everybody was expected to possess some know- ledge , with the piquancy of memoirs , and the variety of subject which is so pleasant to a frivolous and in- dolent reader . It very soon ...
... kind of information on those points of which everybody was expected to possess some know- ledge , with the piquancy of memoirs , and the variety of subject which is so pleasant to a frivolous and in- dolent reader . It very soon ...
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... kind of History of Philosophy , in ten books . Eusebius's extract is a part of the seventh . The learning and discrimination of the writer is very great . He traces the stories which he has occasion to mention up to their earliest ori ...
... kind of History of Philosophy , in ten books . Eusebius's extract is a part of the seventh . The learning and discrimination of the writer is very great . He traces the stories which he has occasion to mention up to their earliest ori ...
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... kind of writer is Ptolemy , the son of He- phæstion , whose book is described by Photius ( Biblioth . p . 146—153 , Bekker ) , and strongly praised by him for its utility to those who were desirous of πολυμαθία ἱστορική . Not to mention ...
... kind of writer is Ptolemy , the son of He- phæstion , whose book is described by Photius ( Biblioth . p . 146—153 , Bekker ) , and strongly praised by him for its utility to those who were desirous of πολυμαθία ἱστορική . Not to mention ...
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... kind which must have shown itself early . Neither could have entirely sympathized with the other , however much he might admire his genius ; and this circumstance may very well have produced a certain estrangement , which by such of ...
... kind which must have shown itself early . Neither could have entirely sympathized with the other , however much he might admire his genius ; and this circumstance may very well have produced a certain estrangement , which by such of ...
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... kind of merit in this respect which is perfectly absurd . Plutarch says that his pupil received from him more towards the accomplishment of his schemes than from Philip ' . Alexander himself was accustomed to say , that he honoured ...
... kind of merit in this respect which is perfectly absurd . Plutarch says that his pupil received from him more towards the accomplishment of his schemes than from Philip ' . Alexander himself was accustomed to say , that he honoured ...
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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.