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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... 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 valuable materials than were ...
... 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 valuable materials than were ...
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... stories prevalent in his time as arose from the con- fusion of different poets and 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 ...
... stories prevalent in his time as arose from the con- fusion of different poets and 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 ...
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... story is in- compatible with the account of Apollodorus , according to which Aristotle attached himself to the study of philosophy under Plato , before he had completed his eighteenth year . Independently of the difficulty of conceiving ...
... story is in- compatible with the account of Apollodorus , according to which Aristotle attached himself to the study of philosophy under Plato , before he had completed his eighteenth year . Independently of the difficulty of conceiving ...
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... story in question , except to remark how the very form of the calumny seems to indicate that the favourite studies of Aristotle , in the early part of his life , were such as his father's profession would naturally have led him to ...
... story in question , except to remark how the very form of the calumny seems to indicate that the favourite studies of Aristotle , in the early part of his life , were such as his father's profession would naturally have led him to ...
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... story of Epicurus which we have just discussed : it has been conjectured , however , with great appearance of probability , that its sole foundation is the well - known maxim of Plato , that the study of the higher philoso- phy should ...
... story of Epicurus which we have just discussed : it has been conjectured , however , with great appearance of probability , that its sole foundation is the well - known maxim of Plato , that the study of the higher philoso- phy should ...
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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.