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... Plato , whofe morals and politics are only derived from Ariftotle , and who regard the tales of Pliny as the perfection of natural science . THOUGHTS ON SCEPTICISM . Tfections thereon , if you choose to infert them , are HE enfuing ...
... Plato , whofe morals and politics are only derived from Ariftotle , and who regard the tales of Pliny as the perfection of natural science . THOUGHTS ON SCEPTICISM . Tfections thereon , if you choose to infert them , are HE enfuing ...
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... Plato ; I am a plain man , Mr. Editor , defirous to ferve the world with the experience of fixty years , and only request you not to expect from me aught on this subject which those three gentlemen - may not already have written ...
... Plato ; I am a plain man , Mr. Editor , defirous to ferve the world with the experience of fixty years , and only request you not to expect from me aught on this subject which those three gentlemen - may not already have written ...
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... plato- nic love that can be indulged with truth , and without danger * . " Though the first - born of this fhort - lived race , Mr. Gibbon did not poffefs much fuperior ftrength of body with the right of primogeniture . From the moment ...
... plato- nic love that can be indulged with truth , and without danger * . " Though the first - born of this fhort - lived race , Mr. Gibbon did not poffefs much fuperior ftrength of body with the right of primogeniture . From the moment ...
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... Plato , the Utopia of Moore , or the Oceana of Har- rington . They are inherent in the republican fyftem itself . They are of the very effence of it . Neither reafoning nor experience have found any other remedy effectual , ( and all ...
... Plato , the Utopia of Moore , or the Oceana of Har- rington . They are inherent in the republican fyftem itself . They are of the very effence of it . Neither reafoning nor experience have found any other remedy effectual , ( and all ...
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... PLATO's SOJOURNMENT AT SYRACUSE , AND FRIENDSHIP WITH DION . [ From the German of F. L. Count Stolberg . ] DIONYSIUS , the elder , had teftified an ardent love of knowledge , and many Pythagorean phi- lofophers were collected round his ...
... PLATO's SOJOURNMENT AT SYRACUSE , AND FRIENDSHIP WITH DION . [ From the German of F. L. Count Stolberg . ] DIONYSIUS , the elder , had teftified an ardent love of knowledge , and many Pythagorean phi- lofophers were collected round his ...
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Page 51 - If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him ! Bass.
Page 299 - ... berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country the lake and the mountains the air was temperate the sky was serene the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent i will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame...
Page 53 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Page 237 - Curchod were embellished by the virtues and talents of the mind. Her fortune was humble, but her family was respectable. Her mother, a native of France, had preferred her religion to her country. The profession of her father did not extinguish the moderation and philosophy of his temper, and he lived content, with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obscure lot of minister of...
Page 294 - At the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.
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Page 295 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation...
Page 27 - England, his ambition was fame. Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite ; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity.
Page 301 - In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters.
Page 432 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.