M. Tullii Ciceronis De natura deorum libri tres, Volume 3University Press, 1885 - Gods, Greek |
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Page 101 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 188 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 86 - Then follows a description of these whorls or spheres — their size, colour ; and he continues : "The distaff spins round upon the knees of Necessity. Upon each of its circles stands a siren, who travels round with the circle, uttering one note in one tone; and from all the eight notes there results a single harmony.
Page 76 - ... sprang from the wonderment with which the forefathers of the Aryan family stared at the bright (deva) powers that came and went no one knew whence or whither, that never failed, never faded, never died, and were called immortal, ie unfading, as compared with the feeble and decaying race of man. I consider the regular recurrence of phenomena an almost indispensable condition of their being raised, through the charms of mythological phraseology, to the rank of immortals, and I give a proportionately...
Page 37 - Tu, qui deos putas humana neglegere, nonne animadvertis ex tot tabulis pictis quam multi votis vim tempestatis effugerint in portumque salvi pervenerint ? ' ' Ita fit ' inquit, ' illi enim nusquam picti sunt qui naufragia fecerunt in marique perierunt.
Page 36 - Nimirum recte ; propter virtutem enim iure laudamur et in virtute recte gloriamur, quod non contingeret, si id donum a deo non a nobis haberemus.
Page 184 - ... to external things into which passion brings us. Hence the great importance which Des Cartes attaches to the distinction between things in our power, and things not in our power.
Page 128 - Their highest heaven; or on the Delphian cliff Or in Dodona, and through all the bounds Of Doric land ; or who with Saturn old Fled over Adria to th' Hesperian fields, And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles.
Page xlvi - ... which the copyist probably confounded for the moment with plurima, and never corrected his mistake, if indeed he ever became aware of it. In the same way in in 33, instead of nullum igitur animal aeternum est, we read...
Page 76 - ... more composure because of their regularity; but they could never surcease to feel the liveliest interest in those wonderful meteoric changes, so lawless and mysterious in their visitations, which wrought such immediate and palpable effects, for good or ill, upon the lives and fortunes of the beholders.