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For adversary we must consider Mr. Max Muller, so long as we use different theories to different results. If I am right, if he is wrong, in our attempts to untie this old Gordian knot, he loses little indeed.
One of my many objects of study engrossed the greater portion of my thoughts the mysterious tie that united soul and body. Could I untie this Gordian knot and I was vain enough to hope I might then would I rank amongst earth's brightest ornaments, and fill a niche with Newton and Bacon. This extraordinary subject had even when at school, engaged the greater part of my thoughts.
He accompanied the expedition of the Emperor Gordian to Persia and India, and, escaping from its disasters, opened a philosophical school in Rome. In that city he was held in the highest esteem by the Emperor Gallienus; the Empress Salonina intended to build a city, in which Plotinus might inaugurate the celebrated Republic of Plato. The plan was not, however, carried out.
Alexander himself, to be sure, would have scorned the augury; had he been the prey of such petty superstitions he would never have conquered Asia. We know how he compelled the oracle at Delphi to yield to his wishes; how he cut the Gordian knot; how he made his dominating personality felt at the temple of Ammon in Egypt.
I had the editorial page opened and inserted at the top of the leading column a double-leaded paragraph announcing that the agony was over that the Gordian knot was cut that Alexander Dimitry had been selected as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Central American States. It proved a veritable sensation as well as a notable scoop.
The tide of Northern belligerency, which was everywhere rising to its flood, everywhere rushing and mounting to the tops of those dams which separate war and peace had swept away his followers, had caused them to forsake their principles. True to their Anglo-Saxon instinct, they had reverted to the more human, if less Christian method of cutting the Gordian knot of the republic with the sword.
When she finally held out her little hand to me it was warm, and I fancied that from it came a current that was comforting, though it may have been but the affectionate regard of some years of good friendship. "You will dine again with me, next Thursday?" I asked her. "It will take me a few days to get ready." "Don't you think that Gordian knot had better be cut at once?" advised Dora.
So soon as Frederick the Great recognizes the fact that the man in him is subjected by the enchanting Barbarina, like Alexander the Great, he will cut the gordian knot, and release himself from even the soft bondage of love." "I fear that he is strongly bound, and that the gordian knot of love can withstand even the king's sword.
No contradiction, no consciousness; no cross, no crown; contradictions are the very small deadlocks without which there is no going; going is our sense of a succession of small impediments or deadlocks; it is a succession of cutting Gordian knots, which on a small scale please or pain as the case may be; on a larger, give an ecstasy of pleasure, or shock to the extreme of endurance; and on a still larger, kill whether they be on the right side or the wrong.
"'Tis a fact, though 'pon honor. My father would ha' broke me. Luckily she died." "Who died?" asked Mr. Caryll, with a show of interest. "The girl. Did I not tell you there was a girl? 'Twas she was the folly Antoinette de Maligny. But she died most opportunely, egad! 'Twas a very damned mercy that she did. It cut the the what d'ye call it knot?" "The Gordian knot?" suggested Mr. Caryll.
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