The Anabasis: Or, Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of SocratesHarper & Bros., 1860 - 518 páginas |
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Página x - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 505 - ... temperate that he never preferred pleasure to virtue; so wise, that he never erred in distinguishing better from worse; needing no counsel from others, but being sufficient in himself to discriminate between them ; so able to explain and settle such questions by argument; and so capable of discerning the character of others, of confuting those who were in error, and of exhorting them to virtue and honor, he seemed to be such as the best and happiest of men would be.
Página xi - Socrates the wisest of all men living, because he judiciously made choice of human nature for the object of his thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning, as it is of more consequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong, than to settle the distances of the planets, and compute the times of their circumvolutions.
Página 372 - ... does it not seem to you like the work of forethought, to guard the eye, since it is tender, with eyelids, like doors, which, when it is necessary to use the sight, are set open, but in sleep are closed? To make the eyelashes grow as a screen, that winds may not injure it? To make a coping on the parts above the eyes with the eyebrows, that the perspiration from the head may not annoy them? To provide that the ears may receive all kinds of sounds, yet never be obstructed? and that the front teeth...
Página 265 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Página 304 - Rawlinson himself admits that all the ruins may have formed part of " that group of cities which in the time of the prophet Jonah was known by the common name of Nineveh.
Página 431 - ... private matters are not managed by one species of men, and public matters by another ; for those who conduct public business make use of men not at all differing in nature from those whom the managers of private affairs employ ; and those who know how to employ them, conduct either private or public affairs judiciously, while those who do not know, will err in the management of both.
Página 38 - ... and constant in their attachment. For when he was killed, all his friends and the partakers of his table who were with him fell fighting in his defense, except Ariaeus, who had been posted in command of the cavalry on the left ; and, when he learned that Cyrus had fallen in the battle, he took to flight, with all the troops which he had under his command.
Página 123 - Hence they proceeded three days' journey through a desert tract of country, a distance of fifteen parasangs, to the river Euphrates, and passed it without being wet higher than the middle. The sources of the river were said not to be far off. 3. From hence they advanced three days...