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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... circumstances . His Mis- cellaneous Historical Questions ( Tavтodann vλn iσTO- ρική , οι παντοδαπὴ ἱστορία ) were , as well as the works of Pamphila , a mine much worked by subsequent writers . But the degenerate taste which had caused ...
... circumstances . His Mis- cellaneous Historical Questions ( Tavтodann vλn iσTO- ρική , οι παντοδαπὴ ἱστορία ) were , as well as the works of Pamphila , a mine much worked by subsequent writers . But the degenerate taste which had caused ...
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... circumstance that in his narrative the names of the earliest authorities still appear , while from the rest they have in most cases dropped out . With the use , therefore , of due caution and diligence , we are frequently enabled to ...
... circumstance that in his narrative the names of the earliest authorities still appear , while from the rest they have in most cases dropped out . With the use , therefore , of due caution and diligence , we are frequently enabled to ...
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... circumstance is much more im- portant in its bearing upon the intellectual character of Aristotle than may at first appear . In his writings appears such a fondness for these pursuits as it seems impossible not to believe must have been ...
... circumstance is much more im- portant in its bearing upon the intellectual character of Aristotle than may at first appear . In his writings appears such a fondness for these pursuits as it seems impossible not to believe must have been ...
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... circumstance of his being selected by Philip , at a period long subsequent , to conduct the education of Alexander . This we shall find an opportunity of re- verting to in the sequel . Whatever influence , however , was exercised by Ni ...
... circumstance of his being selected by Philip , at a period long subsequent , to conduct the education of Alexander . This we shall find an opportunity of re- verting to in the sequel . Whatever influence , however , was exercised by Ni ...
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... this sort is related of the earlier philosophers , whose systems indeed did not require ( at least to any thing like the extent of Aristotle's ) any previous histori- RHETORIC - PROVERBS - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW . 21 circumstance ,
... this sort is related of the earlier philosophers , whose systems indeed did not require ( at least to any thing like the extent of Aristotle's ) any previous histori- RHETORIC - PROVERBS - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW . 21 circumstance ,
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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.