The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic DialoguesMacmillan, 1877 - 360 páginas |
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AENESIDEMUS Agrigentum ALCIPHRON ANAXAGORAS Aphrodite Apollo APOLLODORUS ARISTIPPUS ARISTODEMUS ASPASIA Athens beauty bliss blood breast breath brook CEBES CHAEREPHON Chaos charm chorus conceit CRITO CTESIBIAS DAMON death DIAGORAS discourse divine doctrine doth earth EMBADIUS EMPEDOCLES eyes fair Fate father fear fire flame fling flood flowers fools gods gold golden grace Greece Greek hath hear heart heaven HERACLITUS Hesiod hold Homer honour human hymn immortal Jove knew light live look mighty Miletus MILO moon mortal mould natural neath nice o'er PAUSANIAS PERICLES philosophy PLATO pleasure poet praise pray priest PYTHAGORAS reason rock round sage SECOND CITIZEN seed SENATOR shrine SIMMIAS SOCRATES Sophroniscus soul stand stars strong sweet talk tell THALES thee Theseus things thou thought throne truth virtue walk wings wisdom wise words worship XENOPHANES young Zeus καὶ
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Página 13 - faint words" — "tired words" — "weak words" — "brave words" — "sick words" — and "successful words." "A word," he says, "is short and quick, but works a long result; therefore, look well to words." Simple words, and, above all, the old English forms, are much the stronger, and strikingly so in commercial correspondence, and, in fact, in commercial life. Hardhitting, clean-cut, God-fearing Anglo-Saxon is the stoutest and safest thought carrier we have. A few comparisons prove this. Compare...
Página 131 - ... quae cum magna modis multis miranda videtur gentibus humanis regio visendaque fertur, rebus opima bonis, multa munita virum vi, nil tamen hoc habuisse viro praeclarius in se nee sanctum magis et mirum carumque videtur. 730 carmina quin etiam divini pectoris eius vociferantur et exponunt praeclara reperta, ut vix humana videatur stirpe creatus.
Página iii - Blackie.— THE WISE MEN OF GREECE, In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. By JE BLACKIE, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Crown 8vo. gs. Blakiston. — MODERN SOCIETY IN ITS RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS. By PEYTON BLAKISTON, MD, FRS Crown 8vo. 5*. Borland Hall.— By the Author of
Página 356 - Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when w.ill ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Página viii - I have attempted is to give the general reading public, so far as they may care for wisdom, a living concrete notion of what the thought of Thales was in his day to the society of Miletus; what Pythagoras, with his school of moral discipline, was to Crotona; Xenophanes to Colophon, and so with the rest.
Página 97 - Who learns to swim, Unschooled in wavy water ? Who to think Except by use of thinking ? What a man With shaping thought and hand may for himself No god will for him. Human wit is slow, Stumbling nine times for one firm footing gained, But still made strong by striving, and sharp-eyed To find the light through darkness and distress By time and toil, and Reason's happy guess.
Página 60 - On the courses of the deep With a fearless rein we sweep, And East and West in bonds of golden amity we bind; Like fleet birds on the wing, From land to land we bring The reward that lightens labour to the toilsome human kind.
Página 25 - I've told them twice, I think they number ten.' ' Right ; and twice five make ten, and so this flower Divides by five. The Maker of the flower Shaped the proportion ; this Pythagoras said.
Página 34 - All things are wonderful; who wonders not, Hath eyes and sees not; wonder is the key Of knowledge and of worship to the wise...
Página 350 - That a profound philosopher, who despised the shallow thinkers about him, should prefer playing at astragals with a boy, is quite natural, and stands in tradition.