A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: From the Foundation of the Socratic Schools to the Taking of Constantinople by the Turks. Being a Continuation of K. O. Müller's Work, Band 1

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J. W. Parker and son, 1858
 

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Seite 88 - While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, The advised head defends itself at home ; For government, though high and low and lower Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music Cant.
Seite 102 - Poi ch'innalzai un poco più le ciglia, vidi '1 maestro di color che sanno seder tra filosofica famiglia. Tutti lo miran, tutti onor li fanno: quivi...
Seite xxviii - From the highest, As from the vilest thing of every day He learns to wean himself ; for the strong hours Conquer him.
Seite 102 - Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that any one born an Aristotelian can become a Platonist ; and I am sure no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. They are the two classes of men, beside which it is next to impossible to conceive a third.
Seite 122 - ... why' is a cause and principle) ; in another the matter or substratum, in a third the source of the change, and in a fourth the cause opposed to this, the purpose and the good (for this is the end of all generation and change).
Seite 76 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Seite 103 - A Life of Aristotle, including a Critical Discussion of some Questions of Literary History connected with his Works. By the Rev.
Seite 30 - B. c. 401. The first two books of the Hellenica, which formed this continuation, are certainly very far superior to the last five, but they are not to be mentioned in the same breath with the work of Thucydides. There is not in any one of the writings of Xenophon a real developement of one great and pervading idea. In all of them there is singular clearness, and a certain...
Seite ix - I have endeavoured, to the best of my ability, to carry out the plan on which Miiller commenced this work.
Seite 200 - His active opposition to Macedon never ceased, and he was one of the orators demanded by Alexander after the capture of Thebes. This peril, which he narrowly escaped, did not damp his patriotic ardour, for we find that he opposed Alexander's demand for an Athenian fleet to help him. against the...

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