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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

... plode and flow according to Girondin Formula and pre- established rule of Philosophy? If so, for our Girondin friends it will be well. Meanwhile were... ... Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloquence. Eloquence, or call it rheto- ric,... ..., Petion, who have escaped from Arrestment in their own homes; a Salles, a Pythagorean Valady, a Duchatel, the Duchatel that came in blanket and night...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... to human life that few, if any, whether from sav ageness, or poverty, or philosophy, ever attempt to do without it. To many creatures there is in th... ...ture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it... ...water. It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I... ...g about the world in his own orbit, do ing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has dis covered, the world going about him getting good. When P... ...he necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no mat ter how well selected, or the best society, ... ...devoted to husbandry. Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean por ridge or...

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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

By: Anonymous

... is Nature who threatens you! XL XL XL XL XLVI VI VI VI VI The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of one s own mind. If a man recognise... ...I have read some works of Chrysippus, and I have not even touched the hem of Philosophy s robe ! LXXI LXXI LXXI LXXI LXXI Friend, lay hold with a desp... ...re thou seekest her not! LXXII LXXII LXXII LXXII LXXII If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible... ...ung man, into possession of that which is thine own. For thy lot is to adorn Philosophy. Thine are these possessions; thine these books, these discour... ...d from perturbation; as one who grudges no pains in the pursuit of piety and philosophy, what I desire is to know my duty to the Gods, my duty to my p... ... a few are certainly genuine. Some (as xxi., xxiv., above) bear the stamp of Pythagorean ori- gin; others, though changed in form, may well be based u...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, You meet all mysteries of philosophy. For he was wise and sovereignly bred To know what mankind is, h... ... Then with his master did he briefly recapitulate, after the manner of the Pythagoreans, that which he had read, seen, learned, done, and understood i... ...I would have thee to know the texts by heart, and then to confer them with philosophy. Now, in matter of the knowledge of the works of nature, I would... ...more, seeing the laws are excerpted out of the middle of moral and natural philosophy, how should these fools have understood it, that have, by G—, st... ...w should these fools have understood it, that have, by G—, studied less in philosophy than my mule? In respect of human learning and the knowledge of ... ...rriage, and withal the number thirty, according to the pro- fession of the Pythagoreans. You will be married. Thanks to you, quoth Panurge, in turning... ...is not new; it was in old times celebrated and religiously observed by the Pythagoreans. Several great princes and emperors have formerly made good us... ...I will read it, said Rhizotome; I hear you so often quote it.) See how the Pythagoreans, by reason of the names and numbers, conclude that Patroclus w... ...ticas, broken bellies, and hemicranias, which may be distinguished by this Pythagorean reason. But returning to names: do but consider how Alexander t...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... the evils of my situation, and Peters, it will be seen, evinced a stoical philosophy nearly as incredible as his present childlike supine- ness and i... ...understood. The wild Pantheism of Fichte; the modified Paliggenedia of the Pythagoreans; and, above all, the doctrines of Identity as urged by Schelli... ...books—to drink nothing stronger than Hock—and to bring the consolations of philosophy to my aid. The fool! if he could not come himself, why, in the n...

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The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

By: E. C. Thomas

...as their step mother, they are repelled violently from the nectared cup of philosophy as soon as they have tasted of it and have become more fiercel... ...ophers declares in the tenth book of the Ethics, on which account it is that philosophy is held to have wondrous pleasures in respect of purity and so... ...ore him in time, but after him in learning, bought the book of Philolaus the Pythagorean, from which he is said to have taken the Timaeus, for 10,000 ... ..., while ye were naked as a tablet to be painted on. For all the household of philosophy are clothed with garments, that the nakedness and rawness of t... ... fervour of learning and diligence in study, they gave up all their lives to philosophy; while nowadays our contemporaries carelessly spend a few year... ...involved in worldly affairs and retire, bidding fare well to the schools of philosophy. They offer the fuming must of their youthful intellect to the...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

..., affected, or unin- telligible terms, introduced into the sciences, and there made an art of, to that degree that Philosophy, which is nothing but th... ...xioms. Nor is this the prerogative of numbers alone, and propositions made about several of them; but even natural philosophy, and all the other scien... ... other; and so cause the different sensations of heat and cold that depend thereon. 22. An excursion into natural philosophy. I have in what just goe... ...ther change the signification of words, which I would not suspect them of,—they hav- ing so severely condemned the philosophy of others, because it ha... ... ideas of substance, what hinders why another may not make a fourth? 19. Substance and accidents of little use in philosophy. They who first ran into... ...ontinued so many ages in a state of silence, must needs make different persons. Suppose a Christian Platonist or a Pythagorean should, upon God’s havi...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ursors of De- spair, this perpetual theorising about Man, the Mind of Man, Philosophy of Government, Progress of the Species and such-like; the main t... ...lities! Has not Mar- quis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the Fre... ...s humour dwells in these Gardes. Notable men too, in their way! Valadi the Pythagorean was, at one time, an officer of theirs. Nay, in the ranks, unde... ...gagement not to act against the National Assembly. Debauched by Valadi the Pythagorean; debauched by money and women! cry Besenval and innumerable oth... ... hour. All Regiments are not Gardes Francaises, or debauched by Valadi the Pythagorean: let fresh undebauched Regiments come up; let Royal-Allemand, S... ...d and curt, might be? Besenval knows but mentions not. Camille Desmoulins? Pythagorean Marquis Valadi, in- flamed with ‘violent motions all night at t... ...elf. With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain. ‘Man, ’ as has been written...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ecursors of Despair, this perpetual theorising about Man, the Mind of Man, Philosophy of Government, Progress of the Species and such-like; the main t... ...bilities! Has not Marquis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the Fre... ... For six weeks their history is of the kind named barren; which indeed, as Philosophy knows, is often the fruitfulest of all. These were their still c... ...s humour dwells in these Gardes. Notable men too, in their way! Valadi the Pythagorean was, at one time, an officer of theirs. Nay, in the ranks, unde... ...gagement not to act against the National Assembly. Debauched by Valadi the Pythagorean; debauched by money and women! cry Besenval and innumer- able o... ... hour. All Regiments are not Gardes Francaises, or debauched by Valadi the Pythagorean: let fresh undebauched Regiments come up; let Royal-Allemand, S... ...? Besenval knows 121 Thomas Carlyle but mentions not. Camille Desmoulins? Pythagorean Marquis Valadi, inflamed with ‘violent motions all night at the... ... a woman run screaming; had not a Pa- triot, with some tincture of Natural Philosophy, instantly struck the wind out of him (butt of musket on pit of ... ...elf. With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain. ‘Man,’ as has been written,...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

... the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of ... ...an be required to promote. But, thus understood, it affords no basis for a philosophy of gov ernment. We can not say that, in constituting a polity, ... ... science at large. For our more limited purpose we borrow from po litical philosophy only its general principles. To determine the form of government... ...hought, it gener ates nothing better than the mystical metaphysics of the Pythagoreans or the V eds. With respect to practical improve ment, the cas... ...nce of the class itself. If checks of this description are sufficient, the philosophy of constitu tional government is but solemn trifling. All trust...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...nter is coming in an hour to put up the—the emblem; and truly, with all my philosophy, and your consolatory encouragement to boot, I would rather wish... ...ourse of human affairs, and I will not even insist on the doctrine of that Pythagorean toper, who was of opinion that over a bottle speaking spoiled c... ...it will not,” said Bucklaw; “his heart is all steeled over with reason and philosophy, things that you, Craigie, know nothing about more than myself, ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...n he regarded as he did the other se- vere facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have t... ...her questions which determine the starting- point of a diagnosis—as to the philosophy of medial evidence— any glimmering of these can only come from a... ...ch social systems, and talked of going to the Backwoods to found a sort of Pythagorean community. Is he gone?” “Not at all. He is practising at a Germ... ...y side.” “Y our scheme is a good deal more difficult to carry out than the Pythagorean community, though. Y ou have not only got the old Adam in yours... ... youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the ... ...tice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. Dorothea left Ladislaw’s two letters unread on her husband’s wr...

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