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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... principles on which the codes of law in the States of his time were seve- rally based . The second was an account of ... principle , the idée - mère of the whole code . For this axiom , whether explicitly stated , or only to be gathered ...
... principles on which the codes of law in the States of his time were seve- rally based . The second was an account of ... principle , the idée - mère of the whole code . For this axiom , whether explicitly stated , or only to be gathered ...
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... principles were the reverse of cy- nical , that he enjoyed life , and was above any un- necessary affectation of severity . " Not apathy , but moderation , " is a maxim ascribed to him by Dio- genes 5 . We have seen that Plato felt and ...
... principles were the reverse of cy- nical , that he enjoyed life , and was above any un- necessary affectation of severity . " Not apathy , but moderation , " is a maxim ascribed to him by Dio- genes 5 . We have seen that Plato felt and ...
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... size of a mackerel , as that one which " leaped out of the river and would have devoured him . " Exactly on such principles does Aristotle's critique on the Republic proceed . LIKELY TO BE MISINTERPRETED . 31 intellects is of a.
... size of a mackerel , as that one which " leaped out of the river and would have devoured him . " Exactly on such principles does Aristotle's critique on the Republic proceed . LIKELY TO BE MISINTERPRETED . 31 intellects is of a.
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... principles even pretending to be scientific , but by mere practice in the school like fencing or boxing . Indignation at this miserable substitute for philosophical institution , and at the undeserved reputation which its author had ...
... principles even pretending to be scientific , but by mere practice in the school like fencing or boxing . Indignation at this miserable substitute for philosophical institution , and at the undeserved reputation which its author had ...
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... attempts literary criticism . Witness the absurd principles on which he proceeds in his comparison of Herodotus and Thucydides . 2 Synesius , Encom . Calvitii , p . 59 , ed . Turneb . CHAPTER III . ARISTOTLE IN ASIA , WE now pass.
... attempts literary criticism . Witness the absurd principles on which he proceeds in his comparison of Herodotus and Thucydides . 2 Synesius , Encom . Calvitii , p . 59 , ed . Turneb . CHAPTER III . ARISTOTLE IN ASIA , WE now pass.
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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.