Notes on Aristophanes and PlatoMacmillan, 1884 - 4 pages |
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Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. it appears , that they did not put it to this use of collect- ing the sunbeams , till they had heated it first , and rubbed it with oil it seems to have been then newly invented . Spanhemius , at v . 619 and 626 ...
Thomas Gray Edmund Gosse. it appears , that they did not put it to this use of collect- ing the sunbeams , till they had heated it first , and rubbed it with oil it seems to have been then newly invented . Spanhemius , at v . 619 and 626 ...
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... appears ( see Thesmoph . v . 402. and Aves , 795 ) that women were present in the theatres , which is amazing , when one considers the extreme indecency , not of words alone , but of actions , I I in these spectacles . The preceding ...
... appears ( see Thesmoph . v . 402. and Aves , 795 ) that women were present in the theatres , which is amazing , when one considers the extreme indecency , not of words alone , but of actions , I I in these spectacles . The preceding ...
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... appears to be a sheep , not a hog : the Schol . at verse 1019 sacrifice to Peace without any victim in the fes- tival called Συνοικεσια . ) Then having dressed the victim and piled wood on the altar , they offered up the two ...
... appears to be a sheep , not a hog : the Schol . at verse 1019 sacrifice to Peace without any victim in the fes- tival called Συνοικεσια . ) Then having dressed the victim and piled wood on the altar , they offered up the two ...
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... appears above ; he is frighted at the sight of two men , and they are much more so at the length of his beak and the fierceness of his aspect . He takes them for fowlers ; and they insist upon it , that they are not men , but birds . In ...
... appears above ; he is frighted at the sight of two men , and they are much more so at the length of his beak and the fierceness of his aspect . He takes them for fowlers ; and they insist upon it , that they are not men , but birds . In ...
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... appears auspicious to their undertaking : a messenger then enters with an account how quick the works advance , and whimsically describes the employments allotted to the several birds , in different parts of the building . Scene 2 ...
... appears auspicious to their undertaking : a messenger then enters with an account how quick the works advance , and whimsically describes the employments allotted to the several birds , in different parts of the building . Scene 2 ...
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Page 217 - ... not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances...
Page 269 - Druids held the immortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punishments...
Page 127 - Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not; it is what 'eye hath not seen, ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive'.
Page 127 - ... in its natural state. But yet excess of cold as well as heat pains us, because it is equally destructive to that temper which is necessary to the preservation of life, and the exercise of the several functions of the body, and which consists in a moderate degree of warmth ; or, if you please, a motion of the insensible parts of our bodies, confined within certain bounds.
Page 212 - who are possessed of this faculty,' (that is, of fetching a voice from the belly or stomach) 'can manage their voice in so wonderful a manner that it shall seem to come from what part they please, not of themselves only, but of any other person in the company, or even from the bottom of a well, down a chimney, from below stairs, &c. &c. of which I myself have been witness.
Page 241 - there is no natural difference between the sexes, but in point of strength. When the entire sexes are compared together, the female is doubtless the inferior ; but in individuals, the woman has often the advantage of the man."* In this opinion I have no doubt that Plato is in the right.