The Orations, Volumen3Harper, 1839 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actions admiration advantage affection Africanus agreeable amity amongst Antipater appears body Carthaginians Cato character citizens common commonwealth concerning connexion consider consul contrary Crassus Cratippus death desire discourse dishonest duty endeavour enemy Ennius especially esteem evil excellent father former fortune friendship give glory greatest happiness honest honour human injury instance Julius Cæsar justice kind Lælius latter laws liberality lives mankind manner Marcus Crassus means mind nature never oath obliged observed occasion old age one's opinion Panatius particular passion person philosophers Plato pleasure Pompey Posidonius principles profitable prudence Publius Crassus Pyrrhus Pythius reason received Regulus relation republic respect Roman senate rules Samnite satisfaction Scipio Scipio Africanus senate society sort soul speak spirit Stoics suppose tell temper Themistocles things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion TITUS POMPONIUS ATTICUS true truth Twelve Tables virtue virtuous whole wholly wisdom wise
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Página 217 - Coruncanii utterly bereaved of all useful energy when they supported the interests of the republic by the wisdom of their counsels and the influence of their respectable authority? Appius Claudius was not only old, but blind, when he remonstrated in the Senate, with so much force and spirit, against concluding a peace with Pyrrhus, to which the majority of the members appeared strongly inclined; and...
Página 235 - They assured me, that in the early part of their lives they were told by certain very old men of their acquaintance, that when Fabricius was ambassador at the court of Pyrrhus, he expressed great astonishment at the account given him by Cineas, of a philosopher at Athens...
Página 18 - ... designed (as the stoics will have it) for the service of men ; and men themselves for the service, good, and assistance of one another ; we certainly in this should be followers of Nature, and second her intentions ; and by producing all that lies within the reach...
Página 19 - ... service of men ; and men themselves for the service, good, and assistance of one another ; we certainly in this should be followers of Nature, and second her intentions ; and by producing all that lies within the reach of our power for the general interest, by mutually giving and receiving good turns, by our knowledge, industry, riches, or other means, should endeavour to keep up that love and society, that should be amongst men. Now the great foundation of justice is faithfulness, which consists...
Página 250 - Old age, it seems, must necessarily be a state of much anxiety and disquietude, from the near approach of death." That the hour of dissolution cannot possibly be far distant from an old man is most undoubtedly certain; but unhappy indeed must he be, if in so long a course of years he has yet to learn that there is nothing in that circumstance which can reasonably alarm his fears. On the contrary, it is an event either utterly to be disregarded, if it extinguish the soul's existence, or much to be...
Página 260 - I am far from regretting that life was bestowed on me, as I have the satisfaction to think that I have employed it in such a manner as not to have lived in vain. In short, I consider this world as a place which Nature never designed for my permanent abode ; and I look upon my departure out of it, not as being driven from my habitation, but as leaving my inn. O glorious day ! when I shall retire from this low and sordid scene, to associate with the divine assembly of departed spirits...
Página 220 - I never yet heard of any veteran whose memory was so weakened by time, as to forget where he had concealed his treasure. The aged indeed seem to be at no loss in remembering whatever is the principal object of their attention ; and few there are at that period of life who cannot readily call to mind what recognisances they have entered into, or with whom they have had any pecuniary transactions.
Página 256 - Infancy and youth, manhood and old age, have each of them their peculiar and appropriate pursuits : but does youth regret the toys of infancy, or manhood lament that it has no longer a taste for the amusements of youth? The season of manhood has also its suitable objects, that are exchanged for others in old age ; and these too, like all the preceding, become languid and insipid in their turn. Now, when this state of absolute satiety is at length arrived ; when -we have enjoyed the satisfactions...
Página 260 - Nor is this my earnest wish confined to those excellent persons alone with whom I was formerly connected : I ardently wish to visit also those celebrated worthies of whose honorable conduct I have heard and read much, or whose virtues I have myself commemorated in some of my writings. To this glorious assembly I am speedily...
Página 138 - Debt 3» may bring any Damage or Inconvenience to the Public, and not when they are in to oblige the Creditors to lose what is their own, and let the Debtors gain what in Justice is another's ; for nothing so cements and holds together in union all the Parts of a Society as FAITH OR CREDIT, which can never be kept up unless Men are under some Force and Necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.