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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... lived who exerted so much influence upon the world . Absorbing into his capacious mind the whole existing philosophy of his age , he reproduced it , digested and transmuted , in a form of which the main outlines are recognised at the ...
... lived who exerted so much influence upon the world . Absorbing into his capacious mind the whole existing philosophy of his age , he reproduced it , digested and transmuted , in a form of which the main outlines are recognised at the ...
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... lived in the first half of the third century of the Christian era . The work from which Eusebius extracts a passage of some length relating to Aristotle , was a kind of History of Philosophy , in ten books . Eusebius's extract is a part ...
... lived in the first half of the third century of the Christian era . The work from which Eusebius extracts a passage of some length relating to Aristotle , was a kind of History of Philosophy , in ten books . Eusebius's extract is a part ...
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... whose court Ælian and Phavorinus lived and wrote . 1 The phrase in question is found in an elegy to Eudemus , cited by Olympiodorus , Comment . ad Platon . Gorgiam . ( Bekk . p . 53. ) HIS OWN EXPRESSIONS - XENOCRATES . 27 racter may be.
... whose court Ælian and Phavorinus lived and wrote . 1 The phrase in question is found in an elegy to Eudemus , cited by Olympiodorus , Comment . ad Platon . Gorgiam . ( Bekk . p . 53. ) HIS OWN EXPRESSIONS - XENOCRATES . 27 racter may be.
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... lived was said to be drawn up by him3 , and long afterwards his memory was celebra- ted by the Stagirites in a solemn festival , and , it is said , one month of the year ( perhaps the one in which he was born ) called by his name ...
... lived was said to be drawn up by him3 , and long afterwards his memory was celebra- ted by the Stagirites in a solemn festival , and , it is said , one month of the year ( perhaps the one in which he was born ) called by his name ...
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... lived to revisit Europe , intoxicated with his military suc- cesses , and hardened by the influence of those flat- terers who after Callisthenes's death reigned supreme at court , it is explicitly stated by Plutarch , that while he lived ...
... lived to revisit Europe , intoxicated with his military suc- cesses , and hardened by the influence of those flat- terers who after Callisthenes's death reigned supreme at court , it is explicitly stated by Plutarch , that while he lived ...
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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.