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"I do not pretend," said she, "to be a critic in the Greek; but I think I am able to read a little of Homer, at least with the help of looking now and then into the Latin." "Pray, madam," said the doctor, "how do you like this passage in the speech of Hector to Andromache: Eis oikon iousa ta sautes erga komize, Iston t elakaten te, kai amphipoloisi keleue Ergon epoichesthai?
'Man a cooking animal? my dear Doctor Johnson pooh! man is a smoking animal. There is his ergon, his 'differential energy, as the Aristotelians say his true distinction from the ourang-outang. Ponder it well.
"I do not pretend," said she, "to be a critic in the Greek; but I think I am able to read a little of Homer, at least with the help of looking now and then into the Latin." "Pray, madam," said the doctor, "how do you like this passage in the speech of Hector to Andromache: Eis oikon iousa ta sautes erga komize, Iston t elakaten te, kai amphipoloisi keleue Ergon epoichesthai?
Pooh! man is a smoking animal. There is his ergon, his 'differential energy, as the Aristotelians say, his true distinction from the orangoutang. Ponder it well." Query. What did the old Roman do without a cigar? How idle through the day? How survive his interminable post-coenal potations? The thought is not our own. It occurs somewhere in De Quincey, we believe.
In this court, there is a fine fountain, in which the water trickles down from above; and here is also an admirable antique statue of Hercules, inscribed LUSIPPOI ERGON, the work of Lysippus. The apartments of this palace are generally small, and many of them dark.
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