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Page vi
... The circumstances and associations amongst which the Greeks lived , and which impressed their distinctive character upon their modes of thought and expres- sion , are so entirely remote from those which prevail vi PREFACE .
... The circumstances and associations amongst which the Greeks lived , and which impressed their distinctive character upon their modes of thought and expres- sion , are so entirely remote from those which prevail vi PREFACE .
Page viii
... character has been occasionally in some degree overlooked in more than one of the most approved , and otherwise most excellent , of the recent English versions of Plato . Translators in turning their phrases and rounding their periods ...
... character has been occasionally in some degree overlooked in more than one of the most approved , and otherwise most excellent , of the recent English versions of Plato . Translators in turning their phrases and rounding their periods ...
Page x
... character are conveyed , or at any rate aided and heightened ; they give point to an obser- vation and connection to an argument : they are the light shades and delicate touches of the picture— like the play of features in the actor ...
... character are conveyed , or at any rate aided and heightened ; they give point to an obser- vation and connection to an argument : they are the light shades and delicate touches of the picture— like the play of features in the actor ...
Page xvii
... character , there remains one point which is important enough to be treated at greater length ; more especially as the question is still unsettled , and a writer of high authority has pronounced a very uncompromising opinion upon it ...
... character , there remains one point which is important enough to be treated at greater length ; more especially as the question is still unsettled , and a writer of high authority has pronounced a very uncompromising opinion upon it ...
Page xxi
... character and bearing solely upon the regulation of life and conduct . This will appear from the summary of them p . 527 B , C. Compare the remarks of Bonitz u . s . p . 272 . But before we proceed to inquire into the claims of Rhe ...
... character and bearing solely upon the regulation of life and conduct . This will appear from the summary of them p . 527 B , C. Compare the remarks of Bonitz u . s . p . 272 . But before we proceed to inquire into the claims of Rhe ...
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Page xix - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.