Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1856 |
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absolute abstract Alexandria ancient animal apprehend Arcesilaus argument Aristotle Aristotle's B. L. VOL beauty body Carneades cause Christian Cicero ciple conceived conception connexion contemplation Cratylus creation Deity dialogue distinct divine doctrine essence eternal ethical existence faculty Heraclitus ideal ideas intel intellect intelligence knowledge laws LECT LECTURE manifest matter ment metaphysical mind moral motion mysterious nature object observe opinion original Parmenides passage peculiar perceive perfect perhaps perpetually Phædo Phædrus philo Philolaus physical Plato Platonic philosophy Platonists Plotinus possess present principle Proclus pronounce Protagoras pure Pythagoras Pythagorean rational element reality reason regard relation scarcely sceptical seems sensation sense sensible Socrates soul speculation sphere spirit Stallbaum supposition Theatetus theory things thought Timæus Timaus tion treatise true truth unity universe views virtue whole wisdom ἂν δὲ δὴ εἶναι ἐν καὶ κατὰ μὲν οὐκ περὶ τὰ τε τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῷ τῶν
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Page 248 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 162 - Nec vero ille artifex, cum faceret lovis formam aut Minervae, contemplabatur aliquem, e quo similitudinem duceret, sed ipsius in mente insidebat species pulchritudinis eximia quaedam, quam intuens in eaque defixus ad illius similitudinem artem et manum dirigebat.
Page 211 - The first philosophical systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex, and a particular connecting chain, or principle, is generally thought necessary to unite every two seemingly disjointed appearances, but it often happens that one great connecting principle is afterward found to be sufficient to bind together all the discordant phenomena that occur in a whole species of things.