 Respecting the gods, I neither know whether they exist, nor what are their attributes : the uncertainty of the subject, the shortness of human life, and many other causes, debar me from this knowledge.  History of Greece - Strona 495autor: George Grote - 1850Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Rugby sch - 1850 - Liczba stron: 176
...and we find him saying, " Respecting Gods, (dtoSv, not itSv Otmv, which would be the Gods of Greece,) I neither know whether they exist, nor what are their...many other causes, debar me from this knowledge." Now here we see expressed, in so many words, what was the scope of the enquiry of Gorgias. t Vide Coleridge's... | |
 | Charles Elam - 1869 - Liczba stron: 436
...doubting their gods. " Respecting the gods," says Protagoras, " I neither know whether they exist, uor what are their attributes; the uncertainty of the...many other causes, debar me from this knowledge." Philosophy, it was evident, must receive some new impulse, be diverted into new channels, or it must... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1880 - Liczba stron: 476
...perhaps the greatest of them, asserted in the opening of his book : ' Respecting the gods, I neither knpw whether they exist nor what are their attributes ;...many other causes, debar me from this knowledge.' This statement, which is not verified by any allusion in Plato's portrait of the man, is said to have... | |
 | 1884 - Liczba stron: 828
...cognizant or so far as precipient, is the measure of all things ; in other words, that knowledge or • " Respecting the Gods I neither know whether they exist...and many other causes debar me from this knowledge." — QUOTE'S History of Greece, vol. vii., p. 48. perception is the measure of all things. This, he... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - Liczba stron: 798
...far as precipient, is the measure of all things ; in other words, that knowledge or * " Respefling the Gods I neither know whether they exist nor what...and many other causes debar me from this knowledge." — GROTB'S History of Greece, vol. vii., p. 48. perception is the measure of all things. This, he... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1893 - Liczba stron: 488
...of the gods, " Respecting the gods, I neither know whether they exist or what are their attributes ; the shortness of human life and many other causes debar me from this knowledge." In the early days the reports could be and were studied. Litigation related mainly to land, and it... | |
 | George Grote - 1899 - Liczba stron: 530
...rivt^ fiat rruAAu rap r<i «o>^v.'vrd tMe vat, ij Tt udrjhdrrx, Kat {3pa%i)(; &v 6 Qiot; rov av&punou what are their attributes : the uncertainty of the...this knowledge." That the believing public of Athens' ware seriously indignant at this passage, and that it caused the author to be threatened with prosecution,... | |
 | Terence Irwin - 1995 - Liczba stron: 592
...he confessed his inability to satisfy himself about the existence of the gods, in these words* — " Respecting the gods, I neither know whether they exist,...be threatened with prosecution and forced to quit Athens — we can perfectly understand ; though there seems no sufficient proof of the tale that he... | |
 | Charles Elam - 1869 - Liczba stron: 422
...doubting nature, doubting themselves, . doubting their gods. " Respecting the gods," says Protagoras, " I neither know whether they exist, nor what are their...many other causes, debar me from this knowledge." Philosophy, it was evident, must receive some new impulse, be diverted into new channels, or it must... | |
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