Charterhouse Prize Exercises, from 1814 to 1832: Reprinted 1833S. Walker, 1833 - 288 páginas |
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Página 2 - Hence it was that the oracle pronounced Socrates the wisest of all men living, because he judiciously made choice of human nature for the object of his thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning, as it is of more consequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong, than to settle the distances of the planets, and compute the times of their circumvolutions.
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Página 8 - ... with method, order, and a stricter mode of reasoning." Zeno, who was himself also educated in the principles of Platonism, only differed from Plato in the comparative estimate of things, allowing nothing to be intrinsically good but virtue, nothing intrinsically bad but vice, and considering all other things to be in themselves indifferent.
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Página 22 - ... man. One attributed the creation of the world to a blind chance, and the government of all events in it to an inviolable fate. Another affirmed the eternity of the world, and said, there was no period in eternity, in which heaven and earth, nature and elements, were not visible. One said, Every thing is uncertain ; we are not sure of our own existence ; the distinction between just and unjust, virtue and vice, is fanciful, and hath no real foundation in the nature of things.