Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes, Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a MagistrateHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 343 من الصفحات |
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... Roman philosopher ; and to point out particular instances in which their arguments and illustrations are identical . In briefly sketching the subjects of the following treatises , we shall for the most part adopt the observations of ...
... Roman philosopher ; and to point out particular instances in which their arguments and illustrations are identical . In briefly sketching the subjects of the following treatises , we shall for the most part adopt the observations of ...
الصفحة vi
... Romans of his son's age and rank , which might enable them to attain political emi- nence , and tread with innocence and safety " the slippery steeps of power , ' The DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP is addressed with peculiar pro- priety vi PREFACE ...
... Romans of his son's age and rank , which might enable them to attain political emi- nence , and tread with innocence and safety " the slippery steeps of power , ' The DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP is addressed with peculiar pro- priety vi PREFACE ...
الصفحة vii
... Romans had such veneration for their ancestors , that they would listen with the utmost interest even to the imaginary conversation of a Scævola or a Lælius . The memorable and hereditary friendship which subsisted between Lælius and ...
... Romans had such veneration for their ancestors , that they would listen with the utmost interest even to the imaginary conversation of a Scævola or a Lælius . The memorable and hereditary friendship which subsisted between Lælius and ...
الصفحة viii
... Romans , and particularly of the Corne- lian family . During the feasts and entertainments of the day , the conversation turned on the words and actions of the first great Scipio . His adopted son having retired to rest , viii PREFACE .
... Romans , and particularly of the Corne- lian family . During the feasts and entertainments of the day , the conversation turned on the words and actions of the first great Scipio . His adopted son having retired to rest , viii PREFACE .
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... Roman erator , " says Sir . J. Mackintosh , " though in speculative questions he embraced that mitigated doubt which allowed most ease and freedom to his genius , yet in those moral wrirings where his heart was most deeely interested ...
... Roman erator , " says Sir . J. Mackintosh , " though in speculative questions he embraced that mitigated doubt which allowed most ease and freedom to his genius , yet in those moral wrirings where his heart was most deeely interested ...
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الصفحة 311 - You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella, 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.
الصفحة 258 - 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.
الصفحة 113 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
الصفحة 280 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
الصفحة 258 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. 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...
الصفحة 5 - 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.
الصفحة 254 - There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
الصفحة 219 - He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. In youth, he must lay up knowledge for his support, when his powers of acting shall forsake him; and in age forbear to animadvert with rigour on faults which experience only can correct.
الصفحة 258 - Morpheus; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corpse, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.