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Page ix
... more matured scholarship have enabled me to correct , that I could not rest satisfied without subjecting it to a thorough revision , notwith- standing the scanty leisure left me by arduous pro- fessional duties : under this process the ...
... more matured scholarship have enabled me to correct , that I could not rest satisfied without subjecting it to a thorough revision , notwith- standing the scanty leisure left me by arduous pro- fessional duties : under this process the ...
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... more than 250 separate editions : so that an editor has at his command a rich store of materials . The editions on which I have chiefly levied contributions are those of Heusinger , Zumpt , Beier and Heine . ( See p . xliii . ) Of the ...
... more than 250 separate editions : so that an editor has at his command a rich store of materials . The editions on which I have chiefly levied contributions are those of Heusinger , Zumpt , Beier and Heine . ( See p . xliii . ) Of the ...
Page xviii
... more so , be- cause in his ethical treatises he has avoided Scepticism more than in his other writings . From a positive point of view he rejects the doctrine of Epicurus and agrees with the principles of the Stoics and Peripatetics ...
... more so , be- cause in his ethical treatises he has avoided Scepticism more than in his other writings . From a positive point of view he rejects the doctrine of Epicurus and agrees with the principles of the Stoics and Peripatetics ...
Page xix
... more rhetorical pathos than philosophical argu- ment . Thus his choice lay between the Stoic , Peripatetic and Academic schools , the latter of which at that time , having been reformed by Antiochus , sought to reconcile the other two ...
... more rhetorical pathos than philosophical argu- ment . Thus his choice lay between the Stoic , Peripatetic and Academic schools , the latter of which at that time , having been reformed by Antiochus , sought to reconcile the other two ...
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... more than any other represented man as independent of external circumstances , and it appeared to him nobler and greater to say with the Stoics that the morally good is alone and at all times expedient , than to maintain with others ...
... more than any other represented man as independent of external circumstances , and it appeared to him nobler and greater to say with the Stoics that the morally good is alone and at all times expedient , than to maintain with others ...
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