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... present of a century or two to their worshippers ; and besides the birds will ever be within call , when invoked , and not sit pouting in the clouds , and keeping their state so many miles off . The scheme is highly admired , and the ...
... present of a century or two to their worshippers ; and besides the birds will ever be within call , when invoked , and not sit pouting in the clouds , and keeping their state so many miles off . The scheme is highly admired , and the ...
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... present ; but Faber is mistaken in thinking that it cannot be the famous Thrasybulus , for it appears ( from Lysias's Apology for Mantheus , p . 307 ) , that he was living , and present in the action before Corinth this very year ; his ...
... present ; but Faber is mistaken in thinking that it cannot be the famous Thrasybulus , for it appears ( from Lysias's Apology for Mantheus , p . 307 ) , that he was living , and present in the action before Corinth this very year ; his ...
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... present at the entertainment given by Callias to Autolycus , Socrates , and others , and at that time was newly married . 89. 4. He was remarkable for his beauty ; his fine panegyrick on it : was passionately fond of Clinias . Crito ...
... present at the entertainment given by Callias to Autolycus , Socrates , and others , and at that time was newly married . 89. 4. He was remarkable for his beauty ; his fine panegyrick on it : was passionately fond of Clinias . Crito ...
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... present at the symposium of Callias , Ol . 89. 4 , and then newly married . He could repeat by heart the whole Iliad and Odyssee , and had been scholar to Stesimbrotus and Anaximander . He was very wealthy and some- what covetous ; was ...
... present at the symposium of Callias , Ol . 89. 4 , and then newly married . He could repeat by heart the whole Iliad and Odyssee , and had been scholar to Stesimbrotus and Anaximander . He was very wealthy and some- what covetous ; was ...
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... present in the symposium of Callias , where he proved that riches and poverty are in the mind alone , and not in externals . His way of life was easy and contented : he passed whole days in the company of Socrates , who taught him ( he ...
... present in the symposium of Callias , where he proved that riches and poverty are in the mind alone , and not in externals . His way of life was easy and contented : he passed whole days in the company of Socrates , who taught him ( he ...
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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.