Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Volume 1William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - Classical education - 555 pages |
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... Cicero was certainly a bad poet and this author , though his phi- lofophy of human nature be in many things exceedingly reprehenfible , may yet be a pro- found politician , and a learned , elegant , and accurate hiftorian . His high ...
... Cicero was certainly a bad poet and this author , though his phi- lofophy of human nature be in many things exceedingly reprehenfible , may yet be a pro- found politician , and a learned , elegant , and accurate hiftorian . His high ...
Page 205
... Cicero , in order to compliment a fect , of which , however , he was not a confiftent dif- ciple , afcribes to Socrates a very high degree of scepticism * ; making his principles near- ly the fame with those of the New Academy , who ...
... Cicero , in order to compliment a fect , of which , however , he was not a confiftent dif- ciple , afcribes to Socrates a very high degree of scepticism * ; making his principles near- ly the fame with those of the New Academy , who ...
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... Cicero feems to have been an Academic ra- ther in name than in reality . And I am apt to think , from feveral paffages in his works * , that he made choice of this denomination , in order to have a pretence for reasoning on either fide ...
... Cicero feems to have been an Academic ra- ther in name than in reality . And I am apt to think , from feveral paffages in his works * , that he made choice of this denomination , in order to have a pretence for reasoning on either fide ...
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... intelligi debet , ut quod cuique antece- dat id ei caufa fit , fed quod cuique efficienter antecedat . Cicero De Fato , cap . 15 . VOL . I , M m notion , notion , conception , or idea of power , in Ch . II . 3 . ON TRUT H.
... intelligi debet , ut quod cuique antece- dat id ei caufa fit , fed quod cuique efficienter antecedat . Cicero De Fato , cap . 15 . VOL . I , M m notion , notion , conception , or idea of power , in Ch . II . 3 . ON TRUT H.
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