Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page v
... possible word for word into English , and it is therefore not intended specially for English readers . On the contrary , it is intended principally for stu- dents and scholars , for those who are learning or have learnt to compare the ...
... possible word for word into English , and it is therefore not intended specially for English readers . On the contrary , it is intended principally for stu- dents and scholars , for those who are learning or have learnt to compare the ...
Page viii
... possible to translate Plato too neatly . In endeavouring to avoid this error I have myself as far as possible eschewed the use of all long and tech- nical words , formal and set phrases , and elaborately turned periods , and have been ...
... possible to translate Plato too neatly . In endeavouring to avoid this error I have myself as far as possible eschewed the use of all long and tech- nical words , formal and set phrases , and elaborately turned periods , and have been ...
Page xii
... possible from all tech- nical terms , though they may seem perchance to express the same ideas more neatly and compactly , however authority may have sanctioned and sub- sequent usage familiarised us with them . I may here just notice ...
... possible from all tech- nical terms , though they may seem perchance to express the same ideas more neatly and compactly , however authority may have sanctioned and sub- sequent usage familiarised us with them . I may here just notice ...
Page xv
... possible charge of carelessness or ignorance from such scholars - if indeed there be any such - who would in all cases sacrifice the English idiom to the preservation of the Greek , to notice a few points in which I have not always ...
... possible charge of carelessness or ignorance from such scholars - if indeed there be any such - who would in all cases sacrifice the English idiom to the preservation of the Greek , to notice a few points in which I have not always ...
Page xvi
... possible so to do— and it will be seen that I have sometimes gone a little out of my way to maintain it — yet the neglect of it is sometimes ( not often I believe ) not only justi- fiable but absolutely required . Of minor importance is ...
... possible so to do— and it will be seen that I have sometimes gone a little out of my way to maintain it — yet the neglect of it is sometimes ( not often I believe ) not only justi- fiable but absolutely required . Of minor importance is ...
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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.