Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, Volum 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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Pàgina 386 - Thus having said, the gallant chiefs alight, Their hands they join, their mutual faith they plight ; Brave Glaucus then each narrow thought resign'd, (Jove warm'd his bosom, and enlarged his mind,) For Diomed's brass arms, of mean device, For which nine oxen paid, (a vulgar price,) He gave his own, of gold divinely wrought," A hundred beeves the shining purchase bought.
Pàgina 303 - And thus it is that the people begin to discern the nature of things honourable and base, and in what consists the difference between them ; and to perceive that the former, on account of the advantage that attends them, are fit to be admired and imitated, and the latter to be detested and avoided.
Pàgina 445 - By mutual confidence, and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made . The wise new prudence from the wise acquire And one brave hero fans another's fire.
Pàgina 302 - When any of these, therefore, being arrived at perfect age, instead of yielding suitable returns of gratitude and assistance to those by whom they have been bred, on the contrary attempt to injure them by words or actions, it is manifest that those who behold the wrong, after having also seen the sufferings and...
Pàgina 313 - Methinks my suffering country's voice I hear, But most her worthless sons insult my ear, On my rash courage charge the chance of war, And blame those virtues which they cannot share.
Pàgina 311 - Unfill'd is yet the measure of my woes. With what a cloud the brows of heaven are crown'd ! What raging winds ! what roaring waters round! 'Tis Jove himself the swelling tempest rears; Death, present death on every side appears. Happy! thrice happy! who in battle slain Press'd in Atrides
Pàgina 51 - To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.
Pàgina 303 - ... must be shocked by such ingratitude, through sympathy with the resentment of their neighbour; and from an apprehension also, that the case may be their own. And from hence arises, in the mind of every man, a certain notion of the nature and force of duty, in which consists both the beginning and the end of justice. In like manner, the man who, in defence of others, is seen to throw himself the foremost into every danger, and even to...
Pàgina 233 - In the first place, he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book: it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties; and, what is worse, leaves you to extricate him as well as you can.