The Greek Philosophers, Volumen2

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K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1882
 

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Página 93 - It seemed the light was never loved before, Now each man said, '"Twill go and come no more." No budding branch, no pebble from the brook, No form, no shadow, but new dearness took From the one thought that life must have an end; And the last parting now began to send Diffusive dread through love and wedded bliss, Thrilling them into finer tenderness. Then Memory...
Página 371 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised...
Página 380 - ... pratique par laquelle, connaissant la force et les actions du feu , de l'eau , de l'air, des astres , des cieux , et de tous les autres corps qui nous environnent, aussi distinctement que nous connaissons les divers métiers de nos artisans, nous les pourrions employer en même façon à tous les usages auxquels ils sont propres , et ainsi nous rendre comme maîtres et possesseurs de la nature.
Página 47 - Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare! . 'Christ,' some one says, 'was human as we are; '• No judge eyes us from Heaven, our sin to scan; 'We live no more, when we have done our span.'— 'Well then, for Christ,' thou answerest, 'who can care?
Página 402 - And when I speak of the other division of the intelligible, you will understand me to speak of that other sort of knowledge which reason herself attains by the power of dialectic, using the hypotheses not as first principles, but only as hypotheses— that is to say, as steps and points of departure into a world which is above hypotheses...
Página 78 - And they produce a host of books written by Musaeus and Orpheus, who were children of the Moon and the Muses - that is what they say according to which they perform their ritual, and persuade not only individuals, but whole cities, that expiations and atonements for sin may be made by sacrifices and amusements which fill a vacant hour, and are equally at the service of the living and the dead; the latter sort they call mysteries, and they redeem us from the pains of hell, but if we neglect them no...
Página 47 - LONG fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare ! " Christ," some one says, " was human as we are ; No judge eyes us from heaven, our sin to scan ; We live no more, when we have done our span." " Well, then, for Christ," thou answerest, " who can care ? From sin which Heaven records not, why forbear?
Página 402 - ... the other division of the intelligible, you will understand me to speak of that other sort of knowledge which reason herself attains by the power of dialectic, using the hypotheses not as first principles, but only as hypotheses — that is to say, as steps and points of departure into a world which is above hypotheses, in order that she may soar beyond them to the first principle of the whole ; and clinging to this and then to that which depends on this, by successive steps she descends again...
Página 52 - Mayst thou from baneful Ignorance the race of men deliver ! This, Father ! scatter from the soul, and grant that we the wisdom May reach, in confidence of which thou justly guidest all things ; That we, by Thee in honour set...
Página 386 - Aristotelici e tutti i lor seguaci, è ben grandissimo argomento della loro efficacia; ma quelle esperienze che apertamente contrariano al movimento annuo, son ben di tanto più apparente repugnanza, che (lo torno a dire) non posso trovar termine all'ammirazion mia, come abbia possuto in Aristarco e nel Copernico far la ragione tanta violenza al senso, che contro a questo ella si sia fatta padrona della loro credulità.

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