The Works of Plato Abridg'd: With an Account of His Life ... Together with a Translation of His Choicest Dialogues.... Illustrated with Notes, المجلد 2A. Bell, 1701 |
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الصفحة 175 - ... one while with a repetition and farther examination of what he had said, another while in speaking of the miserable state that was before us. For we all looked upon ourselves as persons deprived of our good father, that were about to pass the rest of our life in an orphan state. After he came out of the bath, they brought his children to him, for he had three — two little ones, and one that was pretty big : and the women of his family came all in to him. He spoke to them some time in the presence...
الصفحة 100 - There is only one thing that men look upon as incredible," says Cebes to Socrates, in Plato's famous dialogue on the "Immortality of the Soul," "viz., what you advanced of the soul. For almost everybody fancies that when the soul parts from the body it is no more ; it dies along with it ; in the very minute of parting it vanishes like a vapor, or smoke, which flies off and disperses, and has no existence.
الصفحة 103 - And does not one breed the other ? Yes.— What is it that life breeds ? Death. — What is it that death breeds ? It must certainly be life. — Then, says Socrates, all living things, and man, are bred from death. So I think, says Cebes. — And, therefore, continues Socrates, our souls are lodged in the infernal world after death. The consequence seems just. — Shall not we then attribute to death the virtue...
الصفحة 163 - ... suffering in this visible world, is at last dragged along against its will by the demon allotted for its guide. And when it arrives at that fatal rendezvous of all souls, if it has been guilty of any impurity, or polluted with murder, or has committed any of those atrocious crimes, that desperate and lost souls are commonly guilty of, the other souls abhor it and avoid its company. It finds neither companion nor guide, but wanders in a fearful solitude and horrible desert ; till after a certain...
الصفحة 95 - ... its burden, and not before. And while we are in this life, we can only approach to the truth in proportion to our removing from the body, and renouncing all correspondence with it that is not of mere necessity, and keeping ourselves clear from the contagion of its natural corruption, and all its filth, till God himself comes to deliver us. Then, indeed, being freed from all bodily folly, we shall converse, in all probability, with men that enjoy the same...
الصفحة 57 - His body, without doubt; for by that means he'll ruin himself. Socrates — Very well, but is not the case the same all over ? Upon the point of justice or injustice, honesty or dishonesty, good or evil, which at present are the subject of our dispute, shall we rather refer ourselves...
الصفحة 227 - ... 28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprohate mind, to do those things which are not convenient: 29.
الصفحة 163 - I said just now, that is inflamed with the love of it, and has been long its slave, after much struggling and suffering in this visible world, is at last dragged along against its will by the demon allotted for its guide. And when it arrives at that fatal rendezvous of all souls, if it has been guilty of any impurity, or polluted with murder, or has committed any of those atrocious crimes, that desperate and lost souls are commonly guilty of, the other souls abhor it and avoid its company. It finds...
الصفحة 81 - ... attain that happier life. It is even said that Ptolemseus Philadelphus prohibited Hegisias of Cyrene from teaching it in his school, for fear of depopulating his kingdom. Cicero tells us that it was written of Cleombrotus of Ambracia that, " having paid his last compliment to the sun, he threw himself headlong from the top of a tower into hell ; not that he had done anything worthy of death, but had only read Plato's Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul.
الصفحة 173 - ... suitable to its nature, such as temperance, justice, fortitude, liberty, and truth ; — such a one, being firmly confident of the happiness of his soul, ought to wait peaceably for the hour of his removal, as being always ready for the voyage whenever his fate calls him.