 | Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 pages
...just to bury Polynices, though forbidden to do so [by Creon the king,] because this is naturally just. nor could I ever think, A mortal's law of power or...like these, Of yesterday, but made ere time began. And as Empedocles says with respect to not slaying that which is animated. For this is not indeed just... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1818 - 422 pages
...bury Polynices, though forbidden to do so [by Creon the king,] because this is naturally just : • nor could I ever think, A mortal's law of power or...like these, Of yesterday, but made ere time began. And as Empedocles says with respect to not slaying that which is animated. For this is not indeed just... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1818 - 436 pages
...Polynices, though forbidden to do so [by Crepn the king,] because this is naturally just : ..»•.-' • nor could I ever think, A mortal's law of power or strength sufficient, To abrogate th1 unwritten law divine, Immutable, eternal, not like these, Of yesterday, but made ere time began.... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...rule below ; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of pow'r or strength sufficient To abrogate ih' unwritten law divine, Immutable, Eternal, not like...Heaven's great commands, and make the gods my foes ? Without thy mandate, death had one day come ; For who shall 'scape it ? and if now I fall A little... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 470 pages
...dar'st thou, then, to disobey the law ? I had it not from Jove, nor the just gods Who rule below ; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or...Immutable, eternal, not like these Of yesterday, but made e'er time began. Shall man persuade me then to violate Heaven's great commands, and make the gods my... | |
 | Aristotle - Rhetoric - 1823 - 538 pages
...universal and natural laws, which Antigone pleads in justifying her disobedience to Creon's edict. — Nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or...Heaven's great commands, and make the Gods my foes ? "•• Justice, it may be further said, must rest on the solid basis of reality : it is not mere... | |
 | Aristotle - Rhetoric - 1823 - 510 pages
...then to disobey my law? ANTIGONE. — This law came not from Jove, nor the just Gods Who rule below ; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or...eternal; not like these, Of yesterday, but made ere time began.?4 To the same voice of Nature, Empedocles referred the maxim, " Thou shalt not kill;" just and... | |
 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1834 - 380 pages
...thou, then, to disobey the law ? ANT. I had it not from Jove, nor the just gods 391 Who rule below; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or strength sufficient To abrogate the unwritten law divine, Immutable, eternal, not like these 395 Of yesterday, but made ere time began.... | |
 | Francis Edward Jackson Valpy - 1839 - 304 pages
...; they need not the decision of laws ; they are determined by nature." So Sophocles speaks of i . " Th' unwritten law divine, Immutable, eternal, not...like these Of yesterday, but made ere time began."{ But the most remarkable passage is that of Cicero,§ where he is speaking of a particular law of human... | |
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I had it not from Jove, nor the just gods Who rule below ; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or strength sufficient To abrogate th' unwritten law divine, Immutable, eternal, not like these Of yesterday, but made ere time began. 
