Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's dream, and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate, tr. by C.R. Edmonds |
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... speak- ing , I recommend to you the same method , that you may excel equally in both kinds of composition . In this ... speaking and reasoning . Wherefore you shall study , nay , study as long as you desire , under the best philosopher ...
... speak- ing , I recommend to you the same method , that you may excel equally in both kinds of composition . In this ... speaking and reasoning . Wherefore you shall study , nay , study as long as you desire , under the best philosopher ...
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... speaking - and the latter quiet mode of argumentation ; unless , perhaps , Demetrius Phalereus may be reckoned in that number- a refined reasoner , a not very animated speaker , yet of so much sweetness that you might recognize the ...
... speaking - and the latter quiet mode of argumentation ; unless , perhaps , Demetrius Phalereus may be reckoned in that number- a refined reasoner , a not very animated speaker , yet of so much sweetness that you might recognize the ...
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... speaking . In like manner , no other creature perceives the beauty , the gracefulness , and the harmony of parts , in those objects which are discerned by the sight . An analogous perception to which nature and reason convey from the ...
... speaking . In like manner , no other creature perceives the beauty , the gracefulness , and the harmony of parts , in those objects which are discerned by the sight . An analogous perception to which nature and reason convey from the ...
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... speak the truth when you are upon your oath , which is the same thing as to say that it is less harm to violate truth when you are not on your oath . The court sometimes reminds a witness that he is upon oath , which is equivalent to ...
... speak the truth when you are upon your oath , which is the same thing as to say that it is less harm to violate truth when you are not on your oath . The court sometimes reminds a witness that he is upon oath , which is equivalent to ...
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... speak of beneficence and liberality , virtues that are the most agreeable to the nature of man , but which involve many precautionary con- siderations . For , in the first place , we are to take care lest our kindness should hurt both ...
... speak of beneficence and liberality , virtues that are the most agreeable to the nature of man , but which involve many precautionary con- siderations . For , in the first place , we are to take care lest our kindness should hurt both ...
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actions advantage affection Africanus agreeable Antipater appear authority body Cæsar Caius called Carthaginians Cato character Cicero citizens consider consul consulship Cratippus death delight desire despise discourse duty enemy Ennius evil excellent existence expedient father feel fortune friends friendship give glory greater greatest Greek happiness honour human immortal interest Julius Cæsar justice kind labour Lælius learning likewise live Lucius Lucius Minucius Basilus mankind manner Marcus Marcus Cato Marcus Crassus matter means mind moral nature never noble oath object observed old age opinion ourselves pain Panatius passion person philosophers Plato pleasure Pompey possess principle promise Publius Crassus pursuits Pyrrhus Pythagoras Quintus reason regard Religio Medici rich Roman Rome sake Samnites Scævola Scipio seems senate sentiments slaves Socrates soul speak spirit Stoics Themistocles things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion truth virtue virtuous Wherefore wisdom wise wish worthy Xenophon
热门引用章节
第238页 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
第309页 - For taking bribes here of the Sardians; Wherein my letters, praying on his side, Because I knew the man, were slighted off. BRU. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. CAS. In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
第253页 - ... of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.
第256页 - There is not a more painful action of the mind, than invention ; yet in dreams it works with that ease and activity, that we are not sensible when the faculty is employed.
第14页 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
第3页 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.
第256页 - ... were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams, and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed.
第264页 - Hac arte Pollux et vagus Hercules Enisus arces attigit igneas, Quos inter Augustus recumbens Purpureo bibit ore nectar. Hac te merentem, Bacche pater, tuae Vexere tigres...
第202页 - MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their timea.
第252页 - There is not, in my Opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant Consideration in Religion than this of the perpetual Progress which the Soul makes towards the Perfection of its Nature, without ever arriving at a Period in it.