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If the following sketch of Cicero's life and writings be thought unworthy of so great a subject, the Author must plead the circumstances under which it was made. In the spring of 1824, when his hands were full of work, Dr. Whately paid him the compliment of asking him to write it for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, to which he was at that time himself contributing. Dr.

Practically, none of the cyclopaedia previously accessible in our language has now much value. Such works as "Rees's," the "Edinburgh," the "London," and the "Penny" Cyclopaedias, the "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana," and the excellent, though rather brief, "Encyclopedia Americana" of Dr.

There are also fine articles in the Encyclopaedias Britannica and Metropolitana. To Socrates the world owes a new method in philosophy and a great example in morals; and it would be difficult to settle whether his influence has been greater as a sage or as a moralist. In either light he is one of the august names of history.

There are also fine articles in the Encyclopedias Britannica and Metropolitana. Schleirmacher, on Socrates, translated by Bishop Thirlwall. It would be absurd to claim for the ancients any great attainments in science, such as they made in the field of letters or the realm of art.

Ibid. i. 373. Ibid. i. 374. Diversions of Purley, ii. 18. Cf. Mill's statement in Analysis, i. 304, that 'abstract terms are concrete terms with the connotation dropped. Ibid. ii. 9, etc. Ibid. ii. 399. Stephens, ii. 497. Life of Mackintosh, ii. 235-37. Begun for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana in 1818; and published in 1835-37. John Fearn published his Anti-Tooke in 1820.

His want of jealousy towards his rivals was remarkable; this was exemplified in his esteem for Hortensius, and still more so in his conduct towards Calvus. See Ad Fam. xv. 21. Vol. ii. p. 525, 4to. Pro Planc.; Middleton, vol. i. p. 108. Ad Fam. vi. 6, vii. 3. Plutarch, in Vitâ Cic. See also in Vitâ Pomp. Vid. Dr. Whately in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. Lactantius, Inst. iii. 16.

Johnson, the distinguished geographer of Edinburgh, has issued the most complete General Gazetteer of the World that has yet been comprised in a single volume; and as part of the republication of the treatises of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, in separate and portable volumes, we have to mention an interesting volume on Greek Literature by Mr.

This is a specimen of a certain disdain for Antiquity which had been growing on me now for several years. It showed itself in some flippant language against the Fathers in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, about whom I knew little at the time, except what I had learnt as a boy from Joseph Milner.

After finishing this, we took up Whately's Logic, then first republished from the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, and finally the Computatio sive Logica of Hobbes. From this time I formed the project of writing a book on Logic, though on a much humbler scale than the one I ultimately executed.

Maurice, in the essay on the history of moral speculation and culture, which forms the article "Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy" in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.