Lives of the Ancient Philosophers. With a life of the author |
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accordingly afterwards Anacharsis Anaxagoras animals answered Antisthenes appeared Aristippus Aristotle asked Athenians Athens attached banished became began believed Bias body born cause Chilo citizens Cleobulus composed Corcyra Corinth Crates Croesus death decree Democritus desirable Diogenes Dionysius disciples Divine doctrines earth Egypt Empedocles endeavoured enemies Epicurus Epimenides exclaimed father favour Fenelon fortune friends gave gods Greece Greeks Halyattes happiness held Heraclitus honour immediately inhabitants instructed island King Lacedæmonia laws lived Lycophroon magistrates manner matter Megacles Megarians ment Miletus mind native country nature never observed Olympiad opinion oracle passed Periander person Pherecides philosopher Pisistratus Pittacus Plato pleasure possessed present Prince Pyrrho Pythagoras rendered replied reproached reputation respect returned to Athens sacrifice Salamis Sardis sent slave Socrates Solon soul speak temple Thales thing thirty tyrants tion took tyrant virtue whilst wise wished Xenocrates young youth Zeno
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202 ページ - the sea. Aristotle maintained the infinite indivisibility of matter ; that the universe is full, and that there is no void in nature ; that the world is eternal; that the sun has always revolved as it does at present, and that it will always do the same ; that one generation of men has always produced another, without ever having
20 ページ - all feelings of hatred or jealousy which divide nations, disappeared in his presence. He was often obliged to have recourse to artifice to avoid the honours which the armies of the enemy intended him: he refused the military escorts which were offered him for his personal security in the exercise of his functions, and without any other
20 ページ - to the disconsolate little circle to which it belonged, he drove it back himself, in a dark night, to the young man's cottage. " This," says the Cardinal de Maury, " is perhaps the finest trait in Fenelon's life. Woe to those who read it without being affected!
9 ページ - From the abyss which I have described," says St. Simon, " there arose a Prince, affable, gentle, moderate, patient, modest, humble; austere only to himself, attentive to his duties, and sensible of their great extent. His only object appeared to be to
25 ページ - the correctness of his taste, and above all by his exquisite sensibility. Next to Telemachus, his principal work is his " Dialogues on Eloquence in general, and on that of the Pulpit in particular." His Letters are likewise exquisitely touching, and abound with
13 ページ - waiting for pious ecstasies and beatific visions. The clergy became alarmed at the prospect of a religion being diffused, which struck at the root of all forms and ceremonies. They pronounced it a dangerous innovation, chimerical in theory, subversive in practice of the true spirit of religion, and leading indirectly to a frightful laxity of morals.
100 ページ - It was generally believed in Greece that he was inspired by some celestial deity, and that he was often favoured with Divine revelations. He applied himself solely to poetry, and to things connected with Divine worship. He was the first who introduced the consecration of temples, and the purification of countries, cities, and even private
240 ページ - do not your thighs belong to you as much as your knees ?" He used to say, that it was impossible to find any human being without fault, but that a few rotten grains did not spoil a fine pomegranate. Crates wished his disciples to be entirely disencumbered from worldly possessions. " My learning is my own wealth,
219 ページ - do in this country."—" Of what use was it, then," said Diogenes, " to go to Sicily ? are there neither capers nor olives in Athens ?" As Plato was one day entertaining some friends of Dionysius the Tyrant, Diogenes
5 ページ - either to the Jesuits or Jansenists, yet commanded universal respect by the unassuming piety with which they devoted their exertions to the service of the Church, in her most obscure and humble functions; within which modest and useful line of duty they uniformly