| George Grote - 1850 - Liczba stron: 706
...teacher—but silly and worthless, if carried beyond, to the study of complicated diagrams 1 . Respecting arithmetic, he gave the same qualified permission...inquirers (he asked) think that they already know hnman affairs well enough, that they thus begin to meddle with divine ? Do they think that they shall... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1859 - Liczba stron: 126
...teacher ; but silly and worthless, if carried beyond to the study of complicated diagrams. Respecting Arithmetic, he gave the same qualified permission...the study of nature, he discarded it altogether.* And slow and laborious were the advances made in unfolding those hidden mysteries, which now are so... | |
| Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - Liczba stron: 484
...teacher ; but silly and worthless, if carried beyond to the study of complicated diagrams. Respecting Arithmetic, he gave the same qualified permission...the study of nature, he discarded it altogether.* And slow and laborious were the advances made in unfolding those hidden mysteries, which now are so... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1859 - Liczba stron: 120
...to the study of complicated diagrams. Respecting Arithmetic, he gave the same qualified ger mission of study ; but as to general physics, or the study of nature, he discarded it altogether.* And slow and laborious were the advances made in unfolding; those hidden mysteries, which now are so... | |
| George Grote - 1882 - Liczba stron: 860
...— hut silly «i<<l worthless, if carried beyond, to the study of complicated dhijrrRir*. Respecting arithmetic, he gave the same qualified permission...but as to general physics, or the study of Nature, lie discaidid it altogether: "Do these inquirers (he asked) think that tl.ey alrerdy know human affairs... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1885 - Liczba stron: 498
...regarded as profitless, nay, as impious even ' Do these inquirers,' he would ask, ' think that tkey already know human affairs well enough that they thus begin to meddle with divine ? Do they think they shall be able to raise or calm the winds at pleasure, or do they simply seek to gratify vain curiosity?'... | |
| 1897 - Liczba stron: 894
...Thales downward, as to the origin of all things out of water, fire, air, etc., he wholly repudiated. 'Do these inquirers,' he asked, • think that they...Do they think that they shall be able to excite or culm the winds at pleasure, or have they no other view than to gratify an idle curiosity ? ' He considered... | |
| Paul Monroe - 1901 - Liczba stron: 540
...man's moral and intellectual nature. Concerning such investigation, Socrates asks: " Do these inquirers think that they already know human affairs well enough, that they thus begin to meddle with the divine ? Do they think that they shall be able to excite or calm the winds and the rain at pleasure,... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - Liczba stron: 820
...water, air, etc., he regarded as profitless, nay, as impious even. "Do these inquirers." he would ask, "think that they already know human affairs well enough...they thus begin to meddle with divine? Do they think they shall be able to raise or calm the winds at pleasure, or do they simply seek to gratify vain curiosity?"... | |
| 1920 - Liczba stron: 934
...water, air, etc., he regarded as profitless, nay, as impious even. KDo these inquirers," he would ask, "think that they already know human affairs well enough...they thus begin to meddle with divine? Do they think they shall be able to raise or calm the winds at pleasure, or do they simply seek to gratify vain curiosity?"... | |
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