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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... century of the Christian era into the Syriac language by the Nestorians who fled to Persia , and from Syriac into ... centuries of time , sometimes more sometimes less despotically , but always with great force , — recognised in Bagdad ...
... century of the Christian era into the Syriac language by the Nestorians who fled to Persia , and from Syriac into ... centuries of time , sometimes more sometimes less despotically , but always with great force , — recognised in Bagdad ...
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... century before Christ there were materials for compiling a biography of Aristotle as de- tailed as one of Newton or Young could be in the present day . This , however , soon afterwards ceased to be the case . When the only means of ...
... century before Christ there were materials for compiling a biography of Aristotle as de- tailed as one of Newton or Young could be in the present day . This , however , soon afterwards ceased to be the case . When the only means of ...
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... they display , there would be little to choose between the contemporary of Severus , and his followers of some centuries later . But 1 Photius . Biblioth . p . 119. ed . Bekker . 10 RELATIVE VALUE OF LATER WRITERS . Diogenes , although.
... they display , there would be little to choose between the contemporary of Severus , and his followers of some centuries later . But 1 Photius . Biblioth . p . 119. ed . Bekker . 10 RELATIVE VALUE OF LATER WRITERS . Diogenes , although.
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... centuries earlier date , who possessed both the wish and the means to ascertain truth where the later writers were deficient in both . This is particularly the case with certain classes of facts . Anecdotes illustra- tive of individual ...
... centuries earlier date , who possessed both the wish and the means to ascertain truth where the later writers were deficient in both . This is particularly the case with certain classes of facts . Anecdotes illustra- tive of individual ...
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... centuries which intervened between Aristoxenus and Ælian , the vague statement of the first should have bourgeoned ... century of the Christian era . The work from which Eusebius extracts a passage of some length relating to Aristotle ...
... centuries which intervened between Aristoxenus and Ælian , the vague statement of the first should have bourgeoned ... century of the Christian era . The work from which Eusebius extracts a passage of some length relating to Aristotle ...
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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.