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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... manner in which Plato's instructions were given to pick up a knowledge of philosophy , for which he was not without talent , and thus gradually arrived at his views3 . It is at once manifest that this story is in- compatible with the ...
... manner in which Plato's instructions were given to pick up a knowledge of philosophy , for which he was not without talent , and thus gradually arrived at his views3 . It is at once manifest that this story is in- compatible with the ...
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... manner . There is a literary notice of him in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Græca , iii . c . viii . where see Heumann's note . It is curious that in the Latin Life Aristocles is cited together with Aristoxenus as an authority for the very ...
... manner . There is a literary notice of him in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Græca , iii . c . viii . where see Heumann's note . It is curious that in the Latin Life Aristocles is cited together with Aristoxenus as an authority for the very ...
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... manner of doubt . All accounts agree with the infer- ence we should draw from what we find on the subject in his works , that between him and Isocrates the rhetorician there subsisted a most cordial dislike , ac- 2 Sit ista in Græcorum ...
... manner of doubt . All accounts agree with the infer- ence we should draw from what we find on the subject in his works , that between him and Isocrates the rhetorician there subsisted a most cordial dislike , ac- 2 Sit ista in Græcorum ...
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... manner ; that there was neither endowment nor dignity attached to it ; that all honour or profit that could possibly arise from it was due solely to the personal merits of the philosopher ; that in all probability Aristotle himself had ...
... manner ; that there was neither endowment nor dignity attached to it ; that all honour or profit that could possibly arise from it was due solely to the personal merits of the philosopher ; that in all probability Aristotle himself had ...
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... manner as Harmodius is ; yet not only did this performance bring down on its author's head the calumnies we have men- tioned , but many years after it was even made the basis of a prosecution of him for blasphemy : such straws will envy ...
... manner as Harmodius is ; yet not only did this performance bring down on its author's head the calumnies we have men- tioned , but many years after it was even made the basis of a prosecution of him for blasphemy : such straws will envy ...
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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.