 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...taken at this place ; here is their wateringplace ; these men could not do without this villa." Canius, attainment of the sublime, which present us rather...infringed by the cornmerchant, absolves him also from any offense against the laws of benevolence and humanity. In this opinion his ingenious commentator, BarbeyraCi... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...wateringplace ; these men could not do without this villa." Canius, attainment of the sublime, which preseat us rather with a general idea of the perfection we ought to aim at, than afford us any certain and inlallible directions for acquiring it." Puffendorf, considering this very question, after deciding... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 pages
...not do without this villa." Canius, inflamed with desire, presses Pythius to sell. He is unwillothers to the rules which the critics lay down for the attainment...justice was infringed by the corn-merchant, absolves hini also from any offence against the laws of benevolence and humanity. In this opinion his ingenious... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...taken at this place ; here is their wateringplace ; these men could not do without this villa." Canius, attainment of the sublime, which present us rather...infringed by the cornmerchant, absolves him also from any offense against the laws of benevolence and humanity. In this opinion his ingenious commentator, Barbeyrac,... | |
 | Adam Smith - English essays - 1869 - 498 pages
...those which critics lay down for the attainment of what is sublime and elegant in composition, and which present us rather with a general idea of the...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. As the different rules of morality admit such different degrees of accuracy, those authors who have... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pages
...taken at this place ; here is their wateringplace ; these men could not do without this villa." Canius, attainment of the sublime, which present us rather...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it." Puffendort, considering this very question, after deciding that no rule of justice was infringed by... | |
 | James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...The one are precise, accurate, and indispensable. The other are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection...any certain and infallible directions for acquiring it.'2 This theory is primarily and in the main a psychological theory of the moral sentiments, rather... | |
 | Gerhard Leibholz - Law - 1976 - 718 pages
...The one are precise, accurate, and indispensable. The other are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it.« and preferments, he may run as hard as he can, and strain every nerve and every muscle, in order to... | |
 | Robert Sonné Cohen, Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky - History - 1995 - 436 pages
...those which critics lay down for the attainment of what is sublime and elegant in composition, and which present us rather with a general idea of the...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it" (p. 327)." Smith implies that Aristotle writes like a critic rather than a grammarian (pp. 327-329).... | |
 | Charles L. Griswold - Philosophy - 1999 - 430 pages
..."those which critics lay down for the attainment of what is sublime and elegant in composition, and which present us rather with a general idea of the...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it" (VII. iv. 1). It is the province of "the science which is properly called Ethics" to spell out these... | |
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The other are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection we ought to aim at, than afford us any certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. 
