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... given birth to the greatest men ; of which the celebrated Locke and many others are in- ftances . Plutarch himself acknowledges the ftupidity of the Boe- otians in general ; but he imputes it rather to their diet than to their air : For ...
... given birth to the greatest men ; of which the celebrated Locke and many others are in- ftances . Plutarch himself acknowledges the ftupidity of the Boe- otians in general ; but he imputes it rather to their diet than to their air : For ...
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... given birth to the greatest men ; of which the celebrated Locke and many others are in- ftances . Plutarch himself acknowledges the ftupidity of the Bo- otians in general ; but he imputes it rather to their diet than to their air : For ...
... given birth to the greatest men ; of which the celebrated Locke and many others are in- ftances . Plutarch himself acknowledges the ftupidity of the Bo- otians in general ; but he imputes it rather to their diet than to their air : For ...
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... given us on the word & , engraved on the tem- ple of Apollo at Delphi . In this tract he introduces the fcholaftic difputes , wherein he makes a principal figure . After giving us the various fignifications which others af- figned to ...
... given us on the word & , engraved on the tem- ple of Apollo at Delphi . In this tract he introduces the fcholaftic difputes , wherein he makes a principal figure . After giving us the various fignifications which others af- figned to ...
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... given it that mechanical power of retention , which nothing could easily escape . Thus Pliny * tells us of a Greek called Charmidas , who could repeat from memory the contents of the largest li- brary . The advantages Plutarch derived ...
... given it that mechanical power of retention , which nothing could easily escape . Thus Pliny * tells us of a Greek called Charmidas , who could repeat from memory the contents of the largest li- brary . The advantages Plutarch derived ...
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... given to his opinion . We fhall therefore leave the point , where Mr. Addison thought proper to leave a more improbable doctrine , in fufpence . When Zeno confulted the Oracle in what manner he fhould live , the answer was , that he ...
... given to his opinion . We fhall therefore leave the point , where Mr. Addison thought proper to leave a more improbable doctrine , in fufpence . When Zeno confulted the Oracle in what manner he fhould live , the answer was , that he ...
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Page 128 - ... in the hands of a few. Determined therefore to root out the evils of insolence, envy, avarice, and luxury, and those distempers of a state still more inveterate and fatal, I mean poverty and riches...
Page 151 - For along with foreigners come new subjects of discourse * ; new discourse produces new opinions ; and from these there necessarily spring new passions 'and desires, which, like discords in music, would disturb the established government. He, therefore, thought it more expedient for the city, to keep out of it corrupt customs and manners, than even to prevent the introduction of a pestilence.
Page 169 - During the first hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding.
Page 383 - The sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and having covered his eyes with it, asked him;
Page 139 - ... of obedience. The old men were present at their diversions, and often suggested some occasion of dispute or quarrel, that they might observe with exactness the spirit of each, and their firmness in battle.
Page 284 - This child is greater than any man in Greece ; for the Athenians command the Greeks, I .command the Athenians, his mother commands me, and he commands his mother.