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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... Plato and Aristotle , to pursue some of the more important branches of speculation in the course which they took after leaving the hands of the latter , and to examine the success which has attended their cultivation up to the present ...
... Plato and Aristotle , to pursue some of the more important branches of speculation in the course which they took after leaving the hands of the latter , and to examine the success which has attended their cultivation up to the present ...
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... Plato had frequent occasion to speak of the great Stagirite . Epicurus , in a treatise which is cited under the title of A Letter on the Pursuits and Habits of former Philosophers , related several stories to his disparagement . The ...
... Plato had frequent occasion to speak of the great Stagirite . Epicurus , in a treatise which is cited under the title of A Letter on the Pursuits and Habits of former Philosophers , related several stories to his disparagement . The ...
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... Plato and most of the early Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period , after the processes which we have been describing had been again and again repeated , the Lives by the Pseudo - Ammonius and his anonymous Latin translator and ...
... Plato and most of the early Greek philosophers ; and to a yet later period , after the processes which we have been describing had been again and again repeated , the Lives by the Pseudo - Ammonius and his anonymous Latin translator and ...
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... Plato when seventeen years old . After remaining there twenty years , he visited the court of Hermias ( a prince of Asia Minor of whom we shall say more in the sequel , ) in the year after his master's death , Theophilus being then ...
... Plato when seventeen years old . After remaining there twenty years , he visited the court of Hermias ( a prince of Asia Minor of whom we shall say more in the sequel , ) in the year after his master's death , Theophilus being then ...
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... Plato was at that time in the height of his reputation , and the desire to see and enjoy the intercourse of such a ... Plato's Protagoras § 69 , calls Athens Ts ' Exλádos αυτὸ τὸ πρυτανεῖον τῆς σοφίας . • Where , asks the Sicilian orator ...
... Plato was at that time in the height of his reputation , and the desire to see and enjoy the intercourse of such a ... Plato's Protagoras § 69 , calls Athens Ts ' Exλádos αυτὸ τὸ πρυτανεῖον τῆς σοφίας . • Where , asks the Sicilian orator ...
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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.