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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wish...

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...reek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Gre... ...ve land. It is nevertheless evident, from his familiarity with the customs, language, and laws of Athens, Alexandria and Rome, that he must have resi... ...g. VII. 1, 79. The dog and other irrational animals may also possess spoken language, as the only proof that we have to the contrary, is the fact th... ... dogmatised further about motion, [3] and about the soul. [4] If Sextus' language is taken according to its apparent meaning, we find ourselves he... ...on some subject. Complete Scepticism is contrary to the fundamental laws of language, as all use of verbs involves some affirmation. The Pyrrhonists... ...s, the emperor, saw in the dark, and Aristotle tells the story of a certain Thracian, who thought that he saw the figure of a man always going befor...

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...s more, to tell them in their owne, what they would be taught in an other language. How nobly it is descended, let the father in the ninth Chapter o... ...e, as he heere censureth; and let cofession make halfe amends, that every language hath it's Genius and inseparable forme; without Pythagoras his Me... ...s all he had in this whole body done as much, as in most of that of other languages my peerelesse deere-deerest and never sufficiently commended fri... ...fortune, as if she had eares subject to our batterie: In imitation of the Thracians, who when it lightens or thunders, begin with a Titanian revenge... ...taigne's Essays audiendum, quam auscultandum c ensio.1 Who understand what language birds expresse, By their owne than beasts-livers knowing lesse, T... ... but bare learning, the chiefe thing I learne in them, is their stile and language: if Physitians, I beleeve them in whatsoever they shall report co... ...an enterprise: Which was, to honour and magnifie him at his owne charges. Thracian Ambassadors comforting Archileonida, the mother of Brasidas, for ... ...ir life and being to the power of others. The wives and concubines of the Thracians strive and contend which of them shal be chosen to bee slaine ov... ... as Iupiter and served with as much religion and opinion of miracles. The Thracians, in requitall of the benefits they had received of Agesilaus, ca...

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...ect, stimulated no doubt by the researches of Eratosthenes and others. The language is that of the conventional epic. Apollonius seems to have careful... ...st then let us name Orpheus whom once Calliope bare, it is said, wedded to Thracian Oeagrus, near the Pimpleian height. Men say that he by the music o... ...k trees to this day, tokens of that magic strain, that grow at Zone on the Thracian shore, stand in ordered ranks close together, the same which under... ...chtheus, bare to Boreas on the verge of wintry Thrace; thither it was that Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the ... ...t with the wind. And at dawn before them as they journeyed rose Athos, the Thracian moun *i.e. The Starting. The Argonautica 24 tain, which with its... ...hat did they of ten gaze over the broad sea, in grievous fear against the Thracians’ coming. So when they saw Argo being rowed near the island, strai...

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...asgian Lethus, son of Teutamus. Acamas and the warrior Peirous commanded the Thracians and those that came from beyond the mighty stream of the Helles... ...ly in answer to the bleating of their lambs; for they had not one speech nor language, but their tongues were diverse, and they came from many differe... ...is right leg. He that hurled it was Peirous, son of Imbrasus, captain of the Thracians, who had come from Ænus; the bones and both the tendons were cr... ...f the belly so that he died; but he did not strip him of his armour, for his Thracian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the top of their ... ...o corpses lay stretched on earth near to one another, the one captain of the Thracians and the other of the Epeans; and many another fell round them. ... ... the Trojans, cheering them on, in the likeness of fleet Acamas chief of the Thracians. “Sons of Priam,” said he, “how long will you let your people b...

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...higeneia and Pteleos and Helos and Dorion—where the Muses met Thamyris the Thracian, and made an end of his singing, as 35 The Iliad of Homer he was ... ...the stock of Ares, twain sons of Pelasgian Lethos son of Teutamos. And the Thracians were led of Akamas and hero Peiroos, even all they that the stron... ...he Trojans through the wide host. For they had not all like speech nor one language, but their tongues were mingled, and they were brought from many l... ...ng. So were the two captains stretched in the dust side by side, he of the Thracians and he of the mail clad Epeians; and around them were many others... ...jan ranks and aroused them in the likeness of fleet Akamas, captain of the Thracians. On the heaven nurtured sons of Priam he called saying: “O ye son... ...jans,andthemselvesspiedontheTrojancamp, and took the horses of Rhesos, the Thracian king. N OW BESIDE THE SHIPS the other leaders of the whole Acha...

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...bject, it is interesting to observe the way in which the ordi- nary use of language has accommodated itself to that feeling. Our northern way of expre... ...ining that relation to the unique Caius Julius— to him, in the appropriate language of Shakspeare, “The foremost man of all this world?” And, in this ... ... the few words which survive of their conversation. He addressed to her no language that could tranquillize her fears. On the contrary, to any but a R... ...each side, took part in the combat. Dramas were represented in every known language, (per omnium linguarum histriones.) And hence [that is, from the c... ... upon nations, and some such Babylonian confusion of dresses, complexions, languages, and jargons, was then witnessed at Rome. Accommodations within d... ...(perhaps an effeminate Asiatic) sat looking down upon the bravest of men, (Thracians, or other Europeans,) mangling each other for his recreation. Whe... ... Emperor Severus, have been de- scribed by Gibbon. He was at that period a Thracian peas- ant; since then he had risen gradually to high offices; but,... ...n gradually to high offices; but, according to historians, he retained his Thracian brutality to the last. That may have been true; but one remark mus... ...erers were still at work. After eight months’ march from the Tigris to the Thracian Bosphorus, the army halted at Chalcedon. At this point of time a r...

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...reat lawgivers of man’s race, who have given ex- pression, in the immortal language of song, to the deeper inspirations of our nature. The thoughts of... ...cked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly difficult... ...e detected, anomalies which no doubt arise out of our own ignorance of the language of the Homeric age, how- ever the irregular use of the digamma may... ...oes of her age, however Mr. Knight may have failed in reducing the Homeric language to its primitive form; however, finally, the Attic dialect may not... ...arus, of the Lycians; Odius, of the Halizonians; Pirous and Acamas, of the Thracians. None of these heroes again make their ap- pearance, and we can b... ... line. A broken rock the force of Pyrus threw, (Who from cold Ænus led the Thracian crew,) 102 Full on his ankle dropp’d the ponderous stone, Burst th... ...ess on the bloody plain, T o spoil his arms the victor strove in vain; The Thracian bands against the victor press’d, A grove of lances glitter’d at h... ...Stirs all the ranks, and fires the T rojan train; In form like Acamas, the Thracian guide, Enraged to T roy’s retiring chiefs he cried: “How long, ye ... ...quest led the way, Broke the thick ranks, and turn’d the doubtful day. The Thracian Acamas his falchion found, And hew’d the enormous giant to the gro...

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...rs, but hated those who had betrayed; nor Caesar, who told Rhymitalces the Thracian, that he loved the treason, but hated the traitor; but it is the g... ...icted by others, who affirm, that he was acquainted with neither the Greek language nor learning, and that he was a person of that natural talent and ... ...ome anxiety and care; insomuch that you may see men that use the strongest language against the marriage-bed and the fruit of it, when some servant’s ... ...from other countries, where —so far their lot to roam, They had forgot the language of their home; and some he had set at liberty,— Who here in shamef... ...s, which is probable, there is some ellipsis, or want of precision, in the language, and it should run thus, — “Those that are con- victed of such off... ...kewise by Pericles’s order; which Cratinus again, in his comedy called The Thracian Women, made an occasion of raillery, — So, we see here, Jupiter Lo... ... bulwarks and forts from sea to sea, he put a stop to the in- roads of the Thracians, who lay all about the Chersonese, and closed the door against a ... ...well inclined to peace, and fear- ing lest the city might be sacked by the Thracians, who came in great numbers to his army to serve as volunteers, ou... ... a body of mercenary soldiers, made war upon his own account against those Thracians who called themselves free, and ac- knowledged no king. By this m...

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...letters and a moralist; how the Essays would be read, in all the principal languages of Europe, by millions of intel- ligent human beings, who never h... ...e fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is al- ways everywhere the same. The text of thes... ...h Montaigne’s translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phrase- ology to the language and phraseology of the age and c... ... his father had placed near him, and who never addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six y... ...ets on his right side, and a lion at his feet, all which signifies, in the language of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some imp... ...Fortune, as if she had ears that were sub- ject to our batteries; like the Thracians, who when it thun- ders or lightens, fall to shooting against hea... ... great an enterprise; which was to do him honour at his own ex- pense. The Thracian ambassadors coming to comfort 348 Essays: Book the First Archileo...

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...ltic dress, and acquainting himself with the ordinary expressions of their language req- uisite for common intercourse, he threw himself in amongst 7... ...IS REPORTS that Eumenes, the Cardian, was the son of a poor wagoner in the Thracian Chersonesus, yet liberally edu- cated, both as a scholar and a sol... ...ially towards Eumenes, whom he often upbraided with his quar- rels and ill language to Hephaestion. But he, being a wise and dexterous courtier, made ... ...nd repulsed many assaults, but at last received a wound in his side from a Thracian, and fell off his horse. Being down, many not know- ing him went p... ...ut authority. This was the more remarkable in him, because in his ordinary language, he was always observed to be a great maintainer of justice, and w... ...ing, he said, at once upon his government and Pompey’s honor. This was his language to Pompey, inti- mating that he could not by any means yield to hi... ... and Mimallones,) imitated in many things the practices of the Edonian and Thracian women about Mount Haemus, from whom the word threskeuein, seems to... ...rd. Among the other calamities that befell the city, it happened that some Thracian soldiers having broken into the house of a matron of high characte... ...e taking of the city she had thrown what she had of most value. The greedy Thracian presently stooping down to view the place where he thought the tre...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ...ene of Troy 160 With opportunitie of sharpe reuenge 161 Vpon the Thracian Tyrant in his Tent, 162 May fauour Tamora the Queene of Goth... ... would haue dropt his knife and fell asleepe, 1124 As Cerberus at the Thracian Poets feete. 1125 Come, let vs goe, and make thy father blinde...

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... can suppose it to adhere to their actions. And nowhere do we find grosser language than in some of Pope’s prose epistles to the Blounts. His “Pastora... ...ts of civilised literary warfare; and although Pope had been coarse in his language, they were coarser far, and their blackguardism was not redeemed b... ...d to look down with contempt, on account of their obvious animus and gross language. Others, again, were neutralised by the fact, that their authors h... ...Young Gentlemen about T own,” in which he commits many gross indecorums of language, and annexes the name of the great Bentley to several indecent not... ...lar specimen of latitudinarian thought, expressed in a loose simplicity of language, quite unusual with its author. The next year he had intended to s... ...s! So when the first bold vessel dared the seas, High on the stern the Thracian raised his strain, While Argo saw her kindred trees De...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... .... 1845 Lis. The riot of the tipsie Bachanals, 1846 Tearing the Thracian singer, in their rage? 1847 The. That is an old deuice, an...

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...effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. ... ...oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly 4 Don Quixote u... ... translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. ... ...n Quixote” “made English,” he says, “according to the humour of our modern language.” His “Quixote” is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a ... ...es. For this reason, I think, any temptation to use antiquated or obsolete language should be resisted. It is after all an affectation, and one for wh... ... Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing With defter quill than touched the Thracian string. But not in life alone, methinks, to me Belongs the office...

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...f have? Nay, who knows but that it is a defect of my not understanding her language, for doubtless Cats talk and reason with one another, that we agre... ...f rascal game, and still know and then kill him! For my hounds, I know the language of them, and they know the language and meaning of one another, as... ...y plight their troth, and marry; and that then the survivor scorns, as the Thracian women are said to do, to outlive his or her mate, and this is take... ...sed will to the Gentiles; and inspired them also with a power to speak all languages, and by their powerful eloquence to beget faith in the unbelievin... ...n writing: he told me the latter was too good to be told, but in a learned language, lest it should be made common. “Take the stinking oil drawn out o...

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...d which will be either the worst or the best that has been composed in our language, I mean of those intended for entertainment; at which I repent of ... ...and he talked to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what ... ...ion wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for ... ..., “according to the maxim quando caput dolet, &c.” “I don’t understand any language but my own,” said Sancho. “I mean to say,” said Don Quixote, “that... ...eing printed at Antwerp, and I am persuaded there will not be a country or language in which there will not be a translation of it.” “One of the thing... ... Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing With defter quill than touched the Thracian string. But not in life alone, methinks, to me Belongs the office...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ...t and manhood stole to Rhesus Tents, 2209 And brought from thence the Thracian fatall Steeds; 2210 So wee, well couer’d with the Nights black...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ...us 1827 Of Cappadocia, Philadelphos King 1828 Of Paphlagonia: the Thracian King Adullas, 1829 King Manchus of Arabia, King of Pont, 18...

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...cked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly difficult... ...e detected, anomalies which no doubt arise out of our own ignorance of the language of the Homeric age; how ever the irregular use of the digamma may... ...oes of her age; however Mr. Knight may have failed in reducing the Homeric language to its primitive form; however, finally, the Attic dialect may not... ... distinguishing characteristics:—still it is difficult to suppose that the language, particularly in the joinings and transitions, and connecting part... ...aint and indistinct traces of Athenian compilation are discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is pe... ...rus, of the Lycians; Odins, of the Halizonians: Pirous and Acamas, of the Thracians. None of these heroes again make their appearance, and we can but...

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...luable paper, ‘Notes on Passages in Shelley,’ contrib- uted to “The Modern Language Review” (October, 1905), Mr. A.C. Bradley discussed, amongst other... ...cts. His conversation was marked by its happy abundance, and the beautiful language in which he clothed his poetic ideas and philosophical notions. To... ...study. He then translated his “Symposium” and his “Ion”; and the En- glish language boasts of no more brilliant composition than Plato’s Praise of Lov... ... the age in which we live. I have sought to enlist the harmony of metrical language, the ethe- real combinations of the fancy, the rapid and subtle tr... ...who have preceded me. I have sought to avoid the imitation of any style of language or versification peculiar to the original minds of which it is the... ... and hung As multitudinous on the ocean line, As cranes upon the cloudless Thracian wind. _480 Our squadron, convoying ten th...

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...E DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 1582 2 Contents I Old Testament 1 1 ... ...city. 9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scatte... ..., The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language. 48 And Laban said: This heap shall be a wit- ness between me and ... ...in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall. 27 And Rabsa... ...od, and cried out with a 468 Fourth Book of Kings loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of the As- sy... ...r- gias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain horseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut o his shoulder: and so Gorgias escaped to...

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...shed love, long hidden, speak From faltering tongue and flushing cheek The language only known to dreams, Rich eloquence of rosy themes! While on the ... ...rows, rising high And dashing wildly, like to fiery steeds, Fresh from the Thracian or Thessalian plains, High-blooded mares just tempering to the bit... ... wisdom went, And one false note cast wailful to the insane. Now seems the language heard of Love as rain T o make a mire where fruitfulness was meant... ...e, And decency, than which is life less dear, She has of him: the lyre of language clear, Love’s tongue and source. 234 XXVIII She hears him, and ca... ...rth-rooted, tangibly wood, Y et a presence throbbing alive; Nor she in our language dumb: A spirit born of a tree; Because earth-rooted alive: Huntres... ...ough; The features of men are the same. But let their historian new In the language of nakedness write, Rejoice we to know not shame, Not a dread, not...

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...em’d a virgin of the Spartan blood: With such array Harpalyce bestrode Her Thracian courser and outstripp’d the rapid flood. “Ho, strangers! have you ... ...With all the sisters of the woods, and most The God of Arms, who rules the Thracian coast, That they, or he, these omens would avert, Release our fear... ..., The Aeneid Virgil 114 The quiver of an Amazonian dame, With feather’d Thracian arrows well supplied: A golden belt shall gird his manly side, Whi... ... prize without the lot. Accept this goblet, rough with figur’d gold, Which Thracian Cisseus gave my sire of old: This pledge of ancient amity receive,... ... to fame, New honors adding to the Latian name; And well the royal boy his Thracian steed became. White were the fetlocks of his feet before, And on h... ...on be the same; But let the Latins still retain their name, Speak the same language which they spoke before, Wear the same habits which their grandsir...

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...aterials? The German critic unhesitatingly answers, “from Homer.” As regards language, versification, and general spirit, the matter is beyond contro ... ...the Amazon Queen, while quailing shrank away The Maids of War. There in the Thracian land Were Diomedes’ grim man eating steeds: These at their grues... ...hrace, The captives of their spears when they laid waste The land of warrior Thracians. Then these wives, Their hearts with fiery jealousy’s fever fi... ...lt around Beheld it, far as Ida’s mountain crests, And sea girt Tenedos, and Thracian Samos. And men that voyaged on the deep sea cried: “The Argives ...

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...ed only the com- mon benefit. Andromadas Regmus was also a lawgiver to the Thracian talcidians. There are some laws of his concern- ing murders and he... ...aws cannot particularly speak to, as it is impossible for them, in general language, to explain themselves upon everything that may arise: but what th... ... who prefer a kingly govern- ment think that laws can only speak a general language, but cannot adapt themselves to particular circumstances; for whic... ...s forces for want of action, his life for its effeminacy: thus Suthes, the Thracian, who was gen- eral to Amadocus, conspired against him. Sometimes m... ...o servitude are honoured on that account; as were the Scythians, Persians, Thracians, and Gauls: with some there are laws to heighten the virtue of co... ...tia, the government of, changed, 151 Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Cal-cidians, 65 Animals, their different provisions by nature, 14;...

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...e been, in his own fashion, as out spoken as Tiraqueau. If such freedom of language could be permitted in a grave treatise of law, similar liberties w... ...reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to ... ... spoke as those of his time used to speak; when amusing them he used their language to make himself understood, and to slip in his asides, which witho... ...revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once by the archaic form of the language and by the out- spokenness of the words. But if he be read aloud t... ...th and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language. As a foreigner, Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. H... ...nderstood joy, gladness, mirth, pleasure, and delight. In former times the Thracians and Cretans did mark their good, propitious, and fortunate days w... ...the carcasses of dead men; and that not by killing men as Diomedes did the Thracians, or as Ulysses did in throwing the corpses of his enemies at his ... ...uld wonder very much should this be the head and lyre of Orpheus. When the Thracian women had torn him to pieces they threw his head and lyre into the... .... 6. T unes, whose measure inspired men with a kind of divine fury. 7. The Thracian movement. 8. Smutty verses. 9. A measure to which the Molossi of E...

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...ing with the army from one of the physi “Charmides” – Plato 6 cians of the Thracian king Zamolxis, who are said to be so skilful that they can even ... ...xis, who are said to be so skilful that they can even give immortality. This Thracian told me that in these notions of theirs, which I was just now me... ...rn, and I must keep my oath, and therefore if you will allow me to apply the Thracian charm first to your soul, as the stranger directed, I will after... ... Is not that true? Yes, he said, that I think is true. Y ou know your native language, I said, and therefore you must be able to tell what you feel ab... ...e charm which I learned with so much pain, and to so little profit, from the Thracian, for the sake of a thing which is nothing worth. I think indeed ...

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...ave natures; that the Greeks were of a free nature, the barbarian races of Thracians and Asiatics of a slave nature. But why need I go back to Aristot... ...for the most flagitious crimes. In the present day, power holds a smoother language, and whomsoever it oppresses, always pretends to do so for their o... ... curtain, that they do not read, and if they did there is no book in their languages which ca give them the smallest instruction on political affairs;...

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... health or sound state. Such is the never failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years... ... that long list of names which have already become part of the univer sal language of civilized men, and from proper are becoming common names or nou... ...ples lie scattered everywhere, each under its tree. In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sent... ..., after all, man is the great poet, and not Homer nor Shakespeare; and our language itself, and 73 HenryDavidThoreau the common arts of life, are his... ... hurling, according to the oracle, a transcendent foot towards piety.” The language of excite ment is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm be... ...Hast thou plundered Bathyllus From my beautiful dreams? TO A COLT Thracian colt, why at me Looking aslant with thy eyes, Dost thou crue...

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...e same, they are sometimes confounded with one another, at least in common language. A gentleman who farms a part of his own estate, after paying the ... ...hole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters... ... it really costs the person who brings it to market; for though, in common language, what is called the prime cost of any com- modity does not compreh... ...pe- rience. The innumerable volumes which have been written upon it in all languages, may satisfy us, that among the wisest and most learned nations, ... ...o social intercourse, than the mechanic who lives in a town. His voice and language are more uncouth, and more difficult to be understood by those who... ...nticated history, is that of Philip of Macedon. His frequent wars with the Thracians, Illyrians, Thessalians, and some of the Greek cities in the neig...

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...nnings of literature and philosophy, amid the first efforts of thought and language, more inconsistencies occur than now, when the paths of speculatio... ...e is the reality of which justice is the ideal. Or, described in Christian language, the kingdom of God is within, and yet develops into a Church or e... .... I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful. When we had finished our pr... ...tion is the art of medicine, at least if we are to adopt your exact use of language? Certainly not. Or because a man is in good health when he receive... ... evils. I dare say that Thrasymachus and others would seri ously hold the language which I have been merely repeat ing, and words even stronger tha... ...s and self control in sensual pleasures? True. Then we shall approve such language as that of Diomede in Homer, Friend, sit still and obey ... ...not derived from the individuals who are supposed to possess it, e.g. the Thracians, Scythians, and in general the northern nations; and the same may...

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...of milk, and gloriously Emulating the thunder of high Heaven. And when the Thracian wind pours down the snow, 42 Volume 3 I wrap my body in the skins... ...ion of this astonishing chorus; it is im- possible to represent in another language the melody of the versi- fication; even the volatile strength and ... ...e same creed: such a vow, in both cases, excludes us from all inquiry. The language of the votarist is this: The woman I now love may be infinitely in... ...olving blindly, and in spite of conviction, to adhere to them. Is this the language of delicacy and reason? Is the love of such a frigid heart of more... ...t is perfectly unimportant to the present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to... ...hors, Semotique prius tarda necessitas Lethi corripuit gradum. How plain a language is spoken by all this! Prometheus (who represents the human race) ...

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...dise Lost by JOHN MILTON 1667 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton: Paradise Lost Table of Contents . . . .... ... Of BACCHUS and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the THRACIAN Bard In RHODOPE, where Woods and Rocks had Eares 35 To raptur... ...these at thy command To come and play before thee, know’st thou not Thir language and thir wayes, they also know, 1010 And reason not contemptibl... ...ng; at length Not unamaz’d she thus in answer spake. What may this mean? Language of Man pronounc’t By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?... ...sets Upon thir Tongues a various Spirit to rase 945 Quite out thir Native Language, and instead To sow a jangling noise of words unknown: Forth...

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...ance Of BACCHUS and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the THRACIAN Bard In RHODOPE, where Woods and Rocks had Eares To rapture, til... ...all these at thy command To come and play before thee, know’st thou not Thir language and thir wayes, they also know, And reason not contemptibly; wit... ...eling; at length Not unamaz’d she thus in answer spake. What may this mean? Language of Man pronounc’t By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest? T... ...rision sets Upon thir Tongues a various Spirit to rase Quite out thir Native Language, and instead To sow a jangling noise of words unknown: Forthwith...