Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page xv
... things to be a literal translation , it may be well perhaps in order to avoid the 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 ...
... things to be a literal translation , it may be well perhaps in order to avoid the 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 ...
Page xxvii
... thing short of complete justice from the imperfection of human tribunals . The shrewd observant sagacious Aristotle ... things as he finds them and make the best of existing cir- cumstances . As the mountain will not come to Mahomet ...
... thing short of complete justice from the imperfection of human tribunals . The shrewd observant sagacious Aristotle ... things as he finds them and make the best of existing cir- cumstances . As the mountain will not come to Mahomet ...
Page xxviii
... thing . Again , in the conflict of human passions and inter- ests truth is often unattainable , probable evidence must be accepted ; mathematical demonstration belongs only to sci- ence , necessity which is essential to demonstration ...
... thing . Again , in the conflict of human passions and inter- ests truth is often unattainable , probable evidence must be accepted ; mathematical demonstration belongs only to sci- ence , necessity which is essential to demonstration ...
Page xxxix
... thing because it confers great power upon its possessor ; he now endeavours by the same argument to invalidate the contemptuous judg- ment which his opponent has just pronounced upon it : how can an art be a mere ' flattery ' and a sham ...
... thing because it confers great power upon its possessor ; he now endeavours by the same argument to invalidate the contemptuous judg- ment which his opponent has just pronounced upon it : how can an art be a mere ' flattery ' and a sham ...
Page xliii
... thing , that agent necessarily implies patient , and that the quality or properties of the act are the same in agent and patient , or that the effect is of the same nature and character in the patient as the action in the agent ...
... thing , that agent necessarily implies patient , and that the quality or properties of the act are the same in agent and patient , or that the effect is of the same nature and character in the patient as the action in the agent ...
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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.