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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... tion on this subject in a less direct form . Aristoxenus of Tarentum , who during a part of his life was him- self a pupil of Aristotle , in his biographies of Socrates and Plato had frequent occasion to speak of the great Stagirite ...
... tion on this subject in a less direct form . Aristoxenus of Tarentum , who during a part of his life was him- self a pupil of Aristotle , in his biographies of Socrates and Plato had frequent occasion to speak of the great Stagirite ...
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... tion to comparatively few persons , and when to this drawback we add those arising from voluminous size and but partially interesting subject , the circulation would be very limited indeed . It may be questioned , perhaps , whether some ...
... tion to comparatively few persons , and when to this drawback we add those arising from voluminous size and but partially interesting subject , the circulation would be very limited indeed . It may be questioned , perhaps , whether some ...
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... tion being fatal to an acquaintance with all healthy literature , no less than to its production . Thus Caligula wished to destroy the writings of Homer , Virgil , and Livy . ( Sueton . Vit . § 34. ) Of Nero we are told " Liberales ...
... tion being fatal to an acquaintance with all healthy literature , no less than to its production . Thus Caligula wished to destroy the writings of Homer , Virgil , and Livy . ( Sueton . Vit . § 34. ) Of Nero we are told " Liberales ...
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... tion of a female hand . Pamphila , a lady of Egyptian extraction in the time of Nero , had married at a very early age a person of considerable literary tastes and attainments , whose house was the resort of many per- sons distinguished ...
... tion of a female hand . Pamphila , a lady of Egyptian extraction in the time of Nero , had married at a very early age a person of considerable literary tastes and attainments , whose house was the resort of many per- sons distinguished ...
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... tion in the art and maistery of healing , " and such subjects as were connected therewith , was commenced by the Asclepiads at a very early age . " I do not blame the ancients , " says Galen " , " for not writing books on anatomical ...
... tion in the art and maistery of healing , " and such subjects as were connected therewith , was commenced by the Asclepiads at a very early age . " I do not blame the ancients , " says Galen " , " for not writing books on anatomical ...
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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.