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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... probably is to be placed somewhere about the end of the third cen- tury before the Christian era , Timotheus of Athens , is also to be added to the number of his early bio- graphers . But independently of such works as these , antiquity ...
... probably is to be placed somewhere about the end of the third cen- tury before the Christian era , Timotheus of Athens , is also to be added to the number of his early bio- graphers . But independently of such works as these , antiquity ...
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... probably cause their annihilation . At all events , in subsequent times , when Rome was the centre of civilization as well as of empire , works of such a description became totally unfit to satisfy the wants of the age . A certain ac ...
... probably cause their annihilation . At all events , in subsequent times , when Rome was the centre of civilization as well as of empire , works of such a description became totally unfit to satisfy the wants of the age . A certain ac ...
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... probably under the imme- diate superintendence of this parent . For although he was an orphan at the age of seventeen , ( and how much earlier we cannot say , ) yet it is well known that instruc- tion in the art and maistery of healing ...
... probably under the imme- diate superintendence of this parent . For although he was an orphan at the age of seventeen , ( and how much earlier we cannot say , ) yet it is well known that instruc- tion in the art and maistery of healing ...
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... probably of a considerable for- tune , came to Athens , the centre of the civilization of the world , and the focus of every thing that was brilliant in action or in thought . It is not probable that any thing but the thirst for ...
... probably of a considerable for- tune , came to Athens , the centre of the civilization of the world , and the focus of every thing that was brilliant in action or in thought . It is not probable that any thing but the thirst for ...
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... probably written during this period of his life , is described by Cicero2 as contain- ing an account of the theories of all his predecessors upon this subject , from the time of Tisias , the first who wrote upon it , -so admirably and ...
... probably written during this period of his life , is described by Cicero2 as contain- ing an account of the theories of all his predecessors upon this subject , from the time of Tisias , the first who wrote upon it , -so admirably and ...
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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.