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... God only , is to hazard too much upon conjecture ; and the whole tenor of the Heathen theology makes against it . Nor can we be better pleafed with the other interpre ... gods , particularly with the view of B. 22 LIFE OF PLUTARCH . 17.
... God only , is to hazard too much upon conjecture ; and the whole tenor of the Heathen theology makes against it . Nor can we be better pleafed with the other interpre ... gods , particularly with the view of B. 22 LIFE OF PLUTARCH . 17.
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... gods , particularly with the view of confult- ing them on the events of life . If it fhould be thought , that the initial word is infuffi- cient to represent a whole verfe , we have to answer , that it was agreeable to the custom of the ...
... gods , particularly with the view of confult- ing them on the events of life . If it fhould be thought , that the initial word is infuffi- cient to represent a whole verfe , we have to answer , that it was agreeable to the custom of the ...
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... GOD ! Theodore Gaza , who was a man of confiderable learn-- ing , and a great reviver of letters , had a particular at- tachment to our biographer . When he was asked , in cafe of a general destruction of books , what author he would ...
... GOD ! Theodore Gaza , who was a man of confiderable learn-- ing , and a great reviver of letters , had a particular at- tachment to our biographer . When he was asked , in cafe of a general destruction of books , what author he would ...
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... gods be neceffary for the gov- ernment of many worlds ? " To this Plutarch an- fwers , " Where is the neceffity of fuppofing many Ju- piters for this plurality of worlds ? Is not one Excel- " lent Being , endued with reafon and ...
... gods be neceffary for the gov- ernment of many worlds ? " To this Plutarch an- fwers , " Where is the neceffity of fuppofing many Ju- piters for this plurality of worlds ? Is not one Excel- " lent Being , endued with reafon and ...
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... gods , and to the duties of fociety . He did not think that philofophy , or the purfuit of letters , ought to exempt any man from perfonal fervice in the commun- ity to which he belonged ; and though his literary la bors were of the ...
... gods , and to the duties of fociety . He did not think that philofophy , or the purfuit of letters , ought to exempt any man from perfonal fervice in the commun- ity to which he belonged ; and though his literary la bors were of the ...
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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.