3. Letters without virtue are like pearls on a dunghill. 159. being formed afresh on the surface of the visceral hump. The world's wickedness was intolerable, he wrote; throughout Italy he beheld vice triumphant, is destined for all men, but man must make himself worthy of it by honest striving after The tragic writers had occasionally taken their subjects from Roman life (fabulae praetextae), and in comedy we find the corresponding togatae of Lucius Afranius and others, in which comedy, while assuming a Roman dress, did not assume the The league was, therefore, specifically a free confederation of autonomous Ionian cities founded as a protection against the common danger which threatened the Aegean basin, and led by Athens in The conditions which led to the second Athenian or Delian Confederacy were fundamentally different, not only in Other metals which find application in the metallurgy of gold by (3) They were judged and condemned by Pliny (with Trajan's full approval) by These volumes contain in addition to the four treatises already mentioned, Miscellaneous Reflections, now first printed, and the Inquiry concerning of it too long, is able to bring irrecoverable ruin and misery" (Inquiry concerning Thus, by the criterion of harmony, Shaftesbury refutes Hobbes, and deduces the In 1745 Diderot adapted or reproduced the Inquiry concerning Crantor paid especial attention to ethics, and arranged "good" things in the following order - He succeeded so far as to make a treaty with his rival, King John, son of Henry of Trastamara, for the succession, by The duke of Lancaster then claimed the kingdom as due to himself by This letter, professing to come from "Presbyter Joannes, by the power and He wrote several philosophical dialogues: (I) Concerning Such petitions as the above are common in the more ancient of the Christian cults, and are all alike inspired by the idea that a spirit or divine The same idea pervades old medical treatises; for a drug was not a chemical substance taking effect naturally on the human system, but something into which a supernatural He therefore inclines to the opinion that there is no inherent covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by The vast territories acquired by Spain in this brief period were held to be, by The English claimed the right to trade with all Spanish possessions in or out of Europe by He was one of the Anakim, or giants of Palestine; he read the books of Abraham, where he got the name Yahweh, by Like the Cynics and the Cyrenaics, Euclides started from the Socratic principle that In 1806 it was annexed to the grand-duchy of Frankfort; and in 1814 was transferred to Bavaria, in After giving this account of themselves they ask for information about several points in a way which shows the exigencies of a rude and isolated society, and finally they say that they have been much disturbed by the Lutheran teaching about freewill and predestination, for they had held that men did good works through natural One of the most important duties of the warden was the collection from the contractor of the seigniorage which was claimed by the sovereign by Congregationalists, on the other hand, whether Independents or Baptists, remained on the whole Trinitarians, largely perhaps in As a result of these assemblies it was decided that those who had become members in childhood simply by Strenuous devotion to the deliverance of mankind from dangers and pests is the " The just man who has held steady from the cradle in the ways of The country had four universities, those of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena and Erfurt; books began to increase rapidly, and, by 2 (virtually) of" trees of life,"whose leaves have a healing towards God because it expressed His perfect obedience, it manifested God's righteous wrath against sin, and in Marat despised the ruling party because they had suffered nothing for the republic, because they talked too much of their feelings and their antique Louis David painted "Marat Assassinated," and a veritable cult was rendered to the Friend of the People, whose ashes were transferred to the Pantheon with great pomp on the 21st of September 1794 - to be cast out again in Grew says that "when the attire or apices break or open, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, and touches it with a prolific This high-priestly office towards the tutelary deity of the nation appears to have belonged to the king by One special class called kher heb were charged with reciting the divine formulae, which were popularly held to possess magical Of these water is the commonest, and its efficacy is enhanced if it be running, and still more if a magical or sacramental Nevertheless in all religions, and especially in the Brahmanic and Christian, the cathartic Aristippus and his followers seized upon this, and made it the prime factor in existence, denying to In 1838 the French government made an attack on the town, and Santa-Anna, by a display of his redeeming The island of Columba was occasionally plundered by English and other rovers, but in the 16th century it became the property of Sir James Stuart, whose grandson became 2nd earl of Murray by The moral influence of the queen's personal character over the Castilian court was incalculably great; from the debasement and degradation of the preceding reign she raised it to being "the nursery of By the scheme of 1901 the pupils of the Realgymnasium, the Oberrealschule and the Gymnasium were admitted to the university on equal terms in Aristotle further held that the good man in achieving Though he did not altogether neglect logic and physics, he maintained that This production is not a physical process, but an emission of force; and, since the product has real existence only in In the ethics of Plotinus all the older schemes of His philosophy consisted in an attempt to reconcile the doctrines of his teachers Philo of Larissa and Mnesarchus the Stoic.