Greece: I. Legendary Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens, Tom 8

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P.F. Collier, 1899
 

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Strona 450 - ... prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself, or taken up, without examination, on the credit of others. Such an effort is, in fact, a commencement of that intellectual discipline which forms one of the most important ends of all science. It is the first movement of approach...
Strona 491 - However little that instrument may have been applied since the death of its inventor, the necessity and use of it neither have disappeared, nor ever can disappear. There are few men whose minds are not more or less in that state of sham knowledge against which Socrates made war : there is no man whose notions have not been first got together by spontaneous, unexamined, unconscious, uncertified association — resting upon forgotten particulars, blending together...
Strona 443 - his irony," or assumption of the character of an ignorant learner, asking information from one who knew better than himself, while it was essential as an excuse for his practice as a questioner, contributed also to add zest and novelty to his conversation ; and totally banished from it both didactic pedantry and seeming bias as an advocate ; which, to one who talked so much, was of no small advantage.
Strona 484 - Sokrates, that his removal would be the signal for numerous apostles, putting forth with increased energy that process of interrogatory test and spur to which he had devoted his life, and which doubtless was to him far dearer and more sacred than his life.
Strona 405 - ... youths were receiving instruction : he was to be seen in the market-place at the hour when it was most crowded, among the booths and tables, where goods were exposed for sale : his whole day was usually spent in this public manner. He talked with any one, young or old, rich or poor, who sought to address him, and in the hearing of all who chose to stand by : not only he never either asked or received any reward, but he made no distinction of persons, never withheld his conversation from any one,...
Strona 329 - ... even the women, whose life was entirely domestic — of Athens. With this universal liberty in respect of subject there is combined a poignancy of derision and satire, a fecundity of imagination and variety of turns, and a richness of poetical expression such as cannot be surpassed, and such as fully explains the admiration expressed for him by the philosopher Plato, who in other respects must have regarded him with unquestionable disapprobation. His comedies are popular in the largest sense...
Strona 491 - ... it by his own lame and solitary efforts, since the giant of the colloquial elenchus no longer stands in the market-place to lend him help and stimulus. To hear of any man, especially of so illustrious a man, being condemned to death on such accusations as that of heresy and alleged corruption of youth, inspires at the present day a sentiment of indignant reprobation, the force of which I have no desire to enfeeble. The fact stands eternally recorded as one among the thousand misdeeds of intolerance,...
Strona 421 - What is piety? What is impiety ? What is the honorable and the base ? What is the just and the unjust? What is temperance or unsound mind? What is courage or cowardice? What is a city? 'What is the character fit for a citizen ? What is authority over men ? What is the character befitting the exercise of such authority ? and other similar questions. Men who knew these matters he accounted good and honorable; men who were ignorant of them he assimilated to slaves.
Strona 418 - Do these inquirers (he asked) think that they already know human affairs well enough, that they thus begin to meddle with divine ? Do they think that they shall be able to excite or calm the winds and the rain at pleasure, or have they no other view than to gratify an idle curiosity ? Surely, they must see that such matters are beyond human investigation.
Strona 236 - It was then proposed in the assembly that a committee of thirty should be named to draw up laws for the future government of the city, and to undertake its temporary administration. Among the most prominent of the thirty names were those of Critias and Theramenes. The proposal was of course carried. Lysander himself addressed the assembly, and contemptuously told them that they had better take thought for their personal safety, which now...

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