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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...i- ous, and jovial kings. So you can laugh as loudly at those muckworms of philosophy who go about saying, “Our fa- thers were better,” as at the good... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...leshly garb, and live forever in his writings re- splendent with that good philosophy to which we shall al- ways be obliged to return. The good man ha... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...f our land, with spiteful tricks and apish pranks, unworthy of his Homeric philosophy, of this prince of wis- dom of this fatherly centre, from which ...

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...File produced as part of an ongoing student publica tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...Wise Socrates, who thereof quaffing glad Pourd out his life, and last Philosophy To the faire Critias his dearest Belamy. The Gardin of... ...s dew, And had of her, faire Helen for his meed, That many noble Greekes and T roians made to bleed. The warlike Elfe much wondred at t... ...re of T roy, though richly guilt, From which young Hectors bloud by cruell Greekes was spilt. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 120 The roofe hereof was ar... ...cy, Of lawes, of iudgements, and of decretals; All artes, all science, all Philosophy, And all that in the world was aye thought wittily. The Faerie Q...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ..., the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with presents at Del... ...n whom he leads by the hand; a horrid image of justice. There are rules in philosophy that are both false and weak. The example that is proposed to us... ... manity, nay , even the tenderest and most delicate in the whole school of philosophy, to the roughest and most violent hu- man actions. Was it nature... ...ial. I propose a life ordinary and without lustre: ’tis all one; all moral philosophy may as well be applied to a common and private life, as to one o... ...to flag and languish under you, and there Latin steps in to its relief, as Greek does to others. Of some of these words I have just picked out we do n... ...seen. Why did not so noble a conquest fall under Alexander, or the ancient Greeks and Romans; and so great a revolution and mutation of so many empire... ...s. These became more numerous in the edition of 1588; but the multitude of classical texts which at times encumber Montaigne’s text, only dates from t... ... These became more numer- ous in the edition of 1588; but the multitude of classical texts which at times encumber Montaigne’s text, only dates from t...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ked straight and considered what they saw. Her face was much warmer than a Greek face; on the other hand it was much bolder than the face of the usual... ...ere at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian... ...s. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority upon coins; and—one other thing—oh yes, ... ... deck, with a little table by her side on which lay open a black volume of philosophy. She chose a thread from the vari-coloured tangle that lay in he... ...to work of arrears of business; and Rachel—Helen, between her sentences of philosophy, wondered sometimes what Rachel _did_ do with herself? She meant... ...ugh to the finger. In three minutes she was deep in a very difficult, very classical fugue in A, and over her face came a queer 50 The Voyage Out rem... ...iritual outlook we may admit will be affected. If I may pick holes in your philosophy, Miss Vinrace, which has its merits, I would point out that a hu...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...ship and for- giveness, and founding an attachment, not to be surpassed in Greek or Roman story, which subsisted until death? Has that same rival long... ...h the loves and strivings that we crowd into it? No! Far be such miscalled philosophy from us, dear Reader, on Christmas Day! Nearer and closer to our... ...earn with me.” So he learned with that boy about Jupiter and Juno, and the Greeks and the Romans, and I don’t know what, and learned more than I could... ...hn.psu.edu/fac- ulty/jmanis/dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of litera- ture in PDF, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/fac- u...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ard and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to meet Greek and Roman in conflict, and levy tribute every- where, had kept up the... ... of life. The lowest savage, no less than his more advanced brother, has a philosophy of the uni- verse by which he solves the world-problem to his ow... ...se something may have been gained from contact with other peoples—from the Greeks during the long years in which the northern races pressed upon their... ...he same confusion of different stages of myth-making is to be found in the Greek religion, and indeed in those of all peoples; similar conditions of m...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, and the devil, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we were to s... ...sents,—diamonds, ten thousand talari, one thousand gold coins, a beautiful Greek girl for groom, a little Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab horse... ... don’t cultivate at all; that’s their style of farming. The T urks and the Greeks, they eat onions or rise. They get opium from poppies, and it gives ... ...fortunate child. “Did you win any?” asked his wife. “Oscar stood second in philosophy.” This remark imposed silence for a moment on Clapart; but prese... ...ges, myrtles, and pomegranates. “And what did he get?” “The fourth rank in philosophy,” replied the mother proudly. “Oh! oh!” cried uncle Cardot, “the...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...or them. It is but one step from being agelastic to misogelastic, and the [Greek text which cannot be reproduced], the laughter-hating, soon learns to... ...en. The light of Athene over the head of Achilles illuminates the birth of Greek T ragedy. But Comedy rolled in shouting un- der the divine protection... ... mean comedies of classic inspiration, drawn chiefly from Menander and the Greek New Comedy through T erence; or else comedies of the poet’s personal ... ...s built on it, which is hopeful so far; but to enjoy it, to enter into the philosophy of the Broad Grin, that seems to hesitate between the skull and ... ...n anti-social position, which is directly opposed to the Comic; and in his philosophy, judged by philosophers, he is a comic figure, by reason of this... ...They are kings in music, we may say princes in poetry, good speculators in philosophy, and our leaders in scholarship. That so gifted a race, possesse...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as his father had done before him. If in his undergr... ...as old and shriv- elled up, it was the patched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that... ...idents—just as the severance of an Angli- can from a Roman communion and a Greek orthodox com- munion are temporary accidents. You will remark that wi... ...lowship. He took the Natural Science tripos, zoology chiefly. He’s good at philosophy, but of course our Cambridge philosophy is so silly—McTaggart bl... ...stration, chemistry, for example; but it is for every man to think his own philosophy and think out his own religion. One man may tell another, but no...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ...h the brutal—are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart. Of this philosophy the Romans had, by the ne... ... other men, was the station from which the Roman speculators took up their philosophy of human nature. Tried by such standard, Mark Anthony would be f... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...- rian says, prætrepidus; by which word, however, according to its genuine classical acceptation, we apprehend is not meant that he was highly alarmed... ... mind; and at eleven years of age he professed himself a formal devotee of philosophy in its strictest form,—assum- ing the garb, and submitting to it...

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...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...s, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be... ...stinguished for my clas- sical attainments, especially for my knowledge of Greek. At 9 Thomas de Quincey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fif... ...teen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse in Greek fluently and with... ...reader needs neither smile at this avowal nor frown; for, not to remind my classical readers of the old Latin proverb, “Sine cerere,” &c., it may well... ... good a scholar as a nobleman needs to be, still retained an affection for classical studies and for youthful scholars. He had accordingly, from 28 C... ... when I am oppressed by anxieties that 39 Thomas de Quincey demand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy presence to support, and yet remember tha... ... the gentlemen in the cotton trade 15 at Manchester in affecting the Stoic philosophy, but not in this. Here I take the liberty of an Eclectic philoso... ...nd starts, or fragmentary efforts. Mathematics, for instance, intellectual philosophy, &c,, were all become in- supportable to me; I shrunk from them ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing e... ...ay, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek — I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, bu... ...not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.” “But cannot one learn philosophy?” “Philosophy canno... ...n he descended, a smile on his lips, and murmuring that last word of human philosophy, “Perhaps!” But instead of the darkness, Alexandre Dumas 195 an... ... were turned to- wards Athens — it was the fashion to pity and support the Greeks. The French government, without protecting them openly , as you know... ... of how much shall be charged for them.” Morcerf then, with that delighted philosophy which believes that nothing is impos- sible to a full purse or w...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...would neither admit that they worshipped more gods than one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded t... ...al uniformity. The emperor himself, albeit unbaptised and very ignorant of Greek, came and seated himself in the midst of Christian thought upon a gol... ...matter of our personalities in space and time. Human analysis probing with philosophy and science towards the V eiled Being reveals nothing of God, re... ... in which, writing as one without authority or specialisation in logic and philosophy, as an ordinary man vividly interested, for others in a like cas... ...hanges. When he comes from his own world of modern biology to religion and philosophy he goes back in time. He attacks religion as he understood it wh... ...beyond one’s own was not the universal dispo- sition of living things. His classical training disposes him to a realistic exaggeration of individual d...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ... plode and flow according to Girondin Formula and pre- established rule of Philosophy? If so, for our Girondin friends it will be well. Meanwhile were... ... Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloquence. Eloquence, or call it rheto- ric,... ...rderess. To her Advocate she gives thanks; in gentle phrase, in high-flown classical spirit. To the Priest they send her she gives thanks; but needs n... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ore, as he was at liberty, and declared free of the place, he summoned his philosophy, of which he had no inconsiderable share, to his assistance, and... ...ledge of this, which, simple as it appears, is in truth the heighth of all philosophy, renders a wise man superior to every evil which can befall him.... ...allen to his lot than he had merited; and this led him, who (though a good classical scholar) was not deeply learned in religious matters, into a disa... ... relieve the mind than any remedies with which the whole materia medica of philosophy can sup- ply it. When Mrs. Vincent had recovered her faculties, ... ...fy any the least unnecessary expence. Simply to be poor, says my favourite Greek historian, was not held scandal- ous by the wise Athenians, but highl... ... Fielding familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty... ...tty good mistress of the Latin language, and had made some progress in the Greek. I believe, madam, I have formerly acquainted you, that learn- ing wa...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...s, their father’s busi- ness ally and fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions of money as dust compared to a hu- man voi... ... every possible kind interpretation of his atrocious bad manners. He was a Greek, of Parisian gilding, whose Parisian hat flew off at a moment’s notic... ... a deep final note, and the hearers breathed freely. “Stradella!” said the Greek, folding his arms. The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue the... ... feel the intrusion of a style. Of fiction it is part. In the one case the classical robe, in the other any mediaeval phantasy of clothing.” “Yes; tru... ... to the other, you know. Well, follow your own fancy. Camillus is strictly classical. I treat opera there as Alfieri conceived trag- edy. Clelia is mo... ...and having perhaps a certain amount of the fatalism which is often youth’s philosophy in the af- fairs of life. “If this is to be, can I avert it?” Mr... ...trange twitches of what I would ask permission to call the juvenile ‘shrug-philosophy.’ As thus: ‘What creatures we are, but life is so!’ And again, ‘... ...rnal penance so bitter that, for her to be able to go on at all, the shrug-philosophy was positively necessary; Mr. Pericles himself saw the sketch, a...

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...ct, the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ... torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys. Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore,... ...unexplored ocean of truth. Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy’s apprehen... ...us laws of electricity. On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this ca tastrophe, he entered on ... ...aster in The Vicar of Wakefield: `I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.’ But his affec tion for me at lengt... ...hed from land Frankenstein 158 by its superior wildness and ruggedness. The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...oot of a gazelle! My 21 Balzac joints are finely turned, my features of a Greek correctness. It is true, madame, that the flesh tints do not melt int... ...y dress is white muslin, and on my head I wear a garland of white roses in Greek style. I shall put on my Madonna face; I mean to play the simpleton, ... ...press jealousy so well! What a cry in “Il mio cor si divide!” I’m speaking Greek to you, for you never heard Garcia, but then you know how jealous I a... ...f the large amount of study we gave to our chosen subjects; but, my child, philosophy without love, or disguised under a sham love, is the most hideou... ...hing in its hands. We are each developing in strange ways. A large dose of philosophy to a grain of love is your recipe; a large dose of love to a gra... ...ophy to a grain of love is your recipe; a large dose of love to a grain of philosophy is mine. Why, Rousseau’s Julie, whom I thought so learned, is a ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ice. And gradually he was becoming familiar with his father’s repertory of Greek quotations. There was no breach between them, but each knew that holi... ...Lord! how clearly I see it! The intellectual is either a prince or he is a Greek slave in a Roman household. He’s got to hold his chin up or else he b... ...th him in a spirit of instructive association to the Balkans, rub up their Greek together, and settle the problem of Albania. He wanted, he said, a fo... ...e? One could admit science in that larger sense that sweeps in History, or Philosophy. Beyond that whatever work there is is work for which men are pa... ...ter a large and serious movement through his mind he came back to Science, Philosophy or Politics as the sole three justifications for the usurpation ... ...e for any departmentalized subject, and equally he felt no natural call to philosophy. He was left with politics…. “Or else, why shouldn’t I go down t...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... drooped lids, looked straight into the cup. On the base was scratched the Greek word ;aa;gD;gi;gc;ga, Thirst. The figure might have been some beautif... ...a good deal more attention to novels and billiards than to mathematics and Greek. Since then he has been reading law, at the rate of a page a day. If ... ...e had a very pretty head and brilliant auburn hair, which she braided with classical simplicity. She talked in a sweet, soft voice, used language at t... ...vid, is rather an exception; you can think of him and treat him as a young Greek. Standing forth there on the plain of battle between the contending a... ...at you were jealous, not of—not of”— “Speak out, I beg you. We are talking philosophy!” “Not of her affection for her cousin?” “Sure is a good deal to... ...ct to her at other times, but I have not done so now. Since we are talking philosophy,” she pursued with a gentle smile, “I may say it ‘s a simple mat... ... simple matter! I don’t love him. Or rather, perhaps, since we are talking philosophy, I may say it ‘s not a simple matter. I spoke just now of inspir...