The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic DialoguesMacmillan, 1877 - 360 páginas |
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AENESIDEMUS ALCIPHRON ANAXAGORAS APOLLODORUS ARISTODEMUS ASPASIA Athens bear beauty blood born breath bring CHAEREPHON CITIZEN comes common CTESIBIAS DAMON death DIAGORAS divine doctrine doubt draw earth EMBADIUS EMPEDOCLES eyes face fair father fear fire flood flow fools force give gods gold golden grace Greek grow hand hath head hear heard heart HERACLITUS hold Homer human Jove knew land light live look measure mighty MILO mortal natural never PAUSANIAS PERICLES philosophy PLATO pleasure praise priest PYTHAGORAS reason rock round rule SENATOR sense shape SIMMIAS SOCRATES soul speak stand stars strong sweet talk tell THALES thee things thou thought true truth virtue walk wings wisdom wise worship XENOPHANES young
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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 358 - 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 18 - All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those who use it well ; So I have heard him oft.
Página 40 - Hate in the many ; hatred breeds revolt ; Revolt, where all are free to rise and rule, Breeds anarchy, whose wild chaotic reign Calls in the despot with strong will to keep Sharp knives from maddened hands ; and thus we reel From vassalage to vassalage, through fits Of drunken freedom, — glorious for an hour ! PYTHAGORAS.