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In particular, the part played by time in the construction of the physical world is, I think, more fundamental than would appear from the above account. I should hope that, with further elaboration, the part played by unperceived "sensibilia" could be indefinitely diminished, probably by invoking the history of a "thing" to eke out the inferences derivable from its momentary appearance. Arist.
Arist De mundo II. 7. Early monuments prove that they were acquainted with the identity of the morning and evening star. "Tachot kissed the child and gave her her own costly fan.
A prohibition of balconies leaning over the public streets, and of verandas projecting into them, is also mentioned in two or three writers of the fourth century and is said to go back to a much earlier date, though its antiquity was probably exaggerated. Plato, Laws 763 c, 779 c, &c.; Aristotle, Ath. Pol. 50; Arist., Oec. ii. 5, p. 134; Xenophon, Ath. Pol. iii. 4; Schol. to Aeschines, iii. 24.
Arist De mundo II. 7. Early monuments prove that they were acquainted with the identity of the morning and evening star. "Tachot kissed the child and gave her her own costly fan.
Arist. Of this I am certain, that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority, whenever strong divisions prevail in that kind of polity, as they often must; and that oppression of the minority will extend to far greater numbers, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre.
It is answered, that the brain is purged in three different ways; of superfluous watery humours by the eyes, of choler by the nose, and of phlegm by the hair, which is the opinion of the best physicians. Q. Why have men longer hair on their heads than any other living creature? A. Arist. de Generat.
Arist. Politic. lib. iv. cap. 4. De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par Mons. Necker, Vol. I. p. 288. De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par M. Necker. Vol. III. chap. 8 and chap. 9.
The Philosophers of the nineteenth century have fortunately rediscovered the Mermaid in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages. Arist. de Mirand. Strabo, I. 2. p. 68. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Strabo, I. 17. p. 560, 561. Strab. I. 17. p. 549. Plin. I. 6. c. 23. Id. I. 12. c. 18. Id. I. 2. c. 67. Ziphilin. in vit. Traj.
As the quotation from Homer is extremely equivocal, merely stating that Ajax joined the ships that he led from Salamis with those of the Athenians, one cannot but suppose, that if Solon had really taken the trouble to forge a verse, he would have had the common sense to forge one much more decidedly in favour of his argument. Fifty-seven, according to Pliny. Plut. in Vit. Sol. Arist.
For when there were any survivors, as I have already said, they were men who dwelt in the mountains; and they were ignorant of the art of writing, and had heard only the names of the chiefs of the land, but very little about their actions. Arist. And this is the reason why the names of the ancients have been preserved to us and not their actions.
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