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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... Philosophers and Orators , in which Aristotle appears to have occupied a consider- able space . Another author , whose date there is no 1 David the Armenian , in a commentary on the Categories , cited by Brandis in the Rheinisches ...
... Philosophers and Orators , in which Aristotle appears to have occupied a consider- able space . Another author , whose date there is no 1 David the Armenian , in a commentary on the Categories , cited by Brandis in the Rheinisches ...
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... Philosophers , related several stories to his disparagement . The same , perhaps , was the case with Aristippus ( apparently the grandson of the founder of the Cyrenean school ) in his work On the Luxury of Antiquity . And yet more ...
... Philosophers , related several stories to his disparagement . The same , perhaps , was the case with Aristippus ( apparently the grandson of the founder of the Cyrenean school ) in his work On the Luxury of Antiquity . And yet more ...
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... philosophers who had borne the same name2 ; a cause which formerly in the absence of hereditary surnames , and under the ope- ration of many motives for falsification , was much more fertile in its results than can now be easily ...
... philosophers who had borne the same name2 ; a cause which formerly in the absence of hereditary surnames , and under the ope- ration of many motives for falsification , was much more fertile in its results than can now be easily ...
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... 1 Suidas , sub v . Nikóμaxos . Cited and translated by Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , Vol . iii . p . 385. See also Plutarch , Vit . Alex . sec . 8 . ORPHAN WHEN YOUNG - COMES TO ATHENS . 15 philosopher.
... 1 Suidas , sub v . Nikóμaxos . Cited and translated by Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , Vol . iii . p . 385. See also Plutarch , Vit . Alex . sec . 8 . ORPHAN WHEN YOUNG - COMES TO ATHENS . 15 philosopher.
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... philosopher was spent with his father at the Macedonian court , in the 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 ...
... philosopher was spent with his father at the Macedonian court , in the 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 ...
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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.