Aristophanis Comoediae auctoritate libri praeclarissimi saeculi decimi emendatae a Philippo Invernizio...

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In Libraria Weidmannia, 1826
 

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الصفحة xxiii - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
الصفحة lxxxii - SPOKEN. Thus, in the drumming of a march, or the dancing of a hornpipe, there is rhythm, though no metre.; in Dryden's celebrated Ode there is METRE as well as RHYTHM, because the poet with the rhythm has associated certain words. And hence it follows, that, though ALL METRE is RHYTHM, yet ALL RHYTHM is NOT METRE." Harris's Philol. Inquiries, p. 67, — where it is also observed, very truly, that "no English word expresses rhythmus better than the word time.
الصفحة lxii - ... to assure you respecting them ; the opinions, which you now entertain, are not solitary opinions, first originated by you or your friends ; they are opinions, which, at all times, have found advocates, more or less in number ; but I speak the language of experience when I say that not one of those who in their youth had been led to think that there were no gods, has found his old age consistent in opinion with that of his more juvenile years.'* Alas!
الصفحة xxx - But yet haranguing was no doubt the least part of his business, and eloquence was neither the sole, nor the principal talent, as the style of writers would induce us to believe, on which his success depended. He must have been master of other arts, subserviently to which his eloquence was employed, and must have had a thorough knowledge of his own state, and of the other states of Greece, of their dispositions, and of their interests relatively to one another, and relatively to their neighbours...
الصفحة lxv - And as for mutual trust amongst them, it was confirmed not so much by oaths or divine law, as by the communication of guilt. And what was well advised of their adversaries, they received with an eye to their actions, to see whether they were too strong for them, or not, and not ingenuously. To be revenged was in more request, than never to have received injury. And for oaths (when any were) of reconcilement, being administered in the present for necessity...
الصفحة lviii - ... once in possession of these, a man, in their opinion, was at liberty to administer to his passions in all other respects, and to leave nothing unindulged, which could contribute to their gratification. They declared, that those who attached disgrace to this doctrine, did it only from a sense of shame at wanting the means to gratify their own passions ; and their praises of moderation they asserted to be mere hypocrisy, and to proceed solely from the wish of enslaving better men than themselves....
الصفحة lviii - ... the subversion of society. They asserted on all occasions that might makes right ; that the property of the weak belongs to the strong, and that, whatever the law might say to the contrary, the voice of nature taught and justified the doctrine. They proclaimed that the only wise persons were those, who aspired to the direction of public affairs, and who were stopped in this attempt by no other consideration than the measure of their capacity; and they added, that those who, without any command...
الصفحة lxvi - ... of that course but, having circumvented their adversary by fraud, assumed to themselves withal a mastery in point of wit. And dishonest men for the most part are sooner called able than simple men honest, and men are ashamed of this title but take a pride in the other. The cause of all this is desire of rule out of avarice and ambition, and the zeal of contention from those two proceeding.
الصفحة lvii - ... and what essential difference there was between that which is good in itself and good according to nature, they confessed they did not know themselves, and consequently could not communicate to others. The higher pandects of the school were now laid open to him; and it is at once curious and painful to see how early these sophists had discovered all those dangerous doctrines, which, at subsequent periods, have been made use of by bad and designing men for the subversion of society. They asserted...
الصفحة xxvi - ... intelligence. It is always in motion and it moves by itself, said one party — it is a number in motion — it is the harmony of the four elements — it is air, it is water, it is fire, it is blood — it is a fiery mixture of things perceptible by the intellect, which have globose shapes and the force of fire — it is a flame which emanates from the sun — it is an assemblage...

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