Dialogue

 501 Charm   |               the world.~(b) When one epistle out of a number is spurious,
 502 Charm   |             de Platonis quae feruntur Epistolis). They are full of egotism,
 503 Charm   |              style of the whole work. Equability of tone is best attained
 504 Charm   |               above all, it should be equable in style. There must also
 505 Charm   |       pre-eminent in beauty among his equals, but also in that quality
 506 Charm   |            Tusc. ‘(Greek), quam soleo equidem tum temperantiam, tum moderationem
 507 Charm   |              substance is the nearest equivalent to the Greek, may be found
 508 Charm   |               greater one. (ii) Their eristic, or rather Socratic character;
 509 Charm   |         corrections under the head of errata at the end of the Introduction.
 510 Charm   |             fifty-one. These palpable errors and absurdities are absolutely
 511 Charm   |             pages) and translated the Eryxias and Second Alcibiades; and
 512 Charm   |     unmistakable manner that the most essential principle of his philosophy
 513 Charm   |      different times in his life, two essentially different forms:—an earlier
 514 Charm   |            Sophists; nor with the low estimate which he has formed of Plato’
 515 Charm   |              as mind, measure, limit, eternity, essence (Philebus; Timaeus):
 516 Charm   |         virtue, as in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.~The beautiful
 517 Charm   |    moderationem appellare, nonnunquam etiam modestiam.’), Modesty, Discretion,
 518 Charm   |              Phaedrus;’ Th. Martin’s ‘Etudes sur le Timee;’ Mr. Poste’
 519 Charm   |       superseded by Critias (Theaet.; Euthyd.). Socrates preserves his
 520 Charm   |            also in the Protagoras and Euthydemus. The opposition of abstract
 521 Charm   |           modification of it. And the evasion of tautology—that is, the
 522 Charm   |              was also indebted to Mr. Evelyn Abbott, Fellow and Tutor
 523 Charm   |            the King Archon.~Yesterday evening I returned from the army
 524 Charm   |           while they have become more exacting in their demands, are in
 525 Charm   |             or by demanding too great exactness in the use of words, turns
 526 Charm   |             but what I should have in examining into myself? which motive
 527 Charm   |                that in several of the examples which have been recited
 528 Charm   |               think that you ought to excel others in all good qualities;
 529 Charm   |             exhausted the list. 6 The excellence of a translation will consist,
 530 Charm   |               idiomatic phrase, if an exception to the general style, is
 531 Charm   |               is best attained by the exclusive use of familiar and idiomatic
 532 Charm   |           words ‘doing’ and ‘work’ an exclusively good sense: Temperance is
 533 Charm   |       scholars; yet he himself may be excused for thinking it a kind of
 534 Charm   |          doubt of the great influence exercised upon Greece and upon the
 535 Charm   |             and running and in bodily exercises generally, quickness and
 536 Charm   |            and we are far from having exhausted the list. 6 The excellence
 537 Charm   |            Wisdom, without completely exhausting by all these terms the various
 538 Charm   |               The impatience which is exhibited by Socrates of any definition
 539 Charm   |               not right, and that the exhortation ‘Be temperate!’ would be
 540 Charm   |           investigated. Admitting the existence of it, will you tell me
 541 Charm   |         impersonal, ideals and ideas, existing by participation or by imitation,
 542 Charm   |              division of labour which exists in every temperate or well-ordered
 543 Charm   |         succeeded in overcoming them. Experience has made him feel that a
 544 Charm   |            that when he appears to be experimenting on the different points
 545 Charm   |               forward an entirely new explanation of the Platonic ‘Ideas.’
 546 Charm   |            the frequent occurrence of expletives, would, if reproduced in
 547 Charm   |         element of obscurity into the expostion’ (J. of Philol.). The great
 548 Charm   |               similar terms appear to express the same truths from a different
 549 Charm   |             element. No word, however expressive and exact, should be employed,
 550 Charm   |           with a succession of events extending over a great number of years.~
 551 Charm   |            work.~Having regard to the extent of these alterations, and
 552 Charm   |            great number of years.~The external probability therefore against
 553 Charm   |         disease, and not into what is extraneous?~True.~And he who judges
 554 Charm   |              nevertheless may have an extraordinary value and interest for us.~
 555 Charm   |            and to recognize a similar faculty of discernment in others,
 556 Charm   |              the words may be left to fade out of sight, when the translation
 557 Charm   |           stupid as ever; for still I fail to comprehend how this knowing
 558 Charm   |            utterly defeated, and have failed to discover what that is
 559 Charm   |            recognition of their never failing attachment.~The additions
 560 Charm   |              made by us than could be fairly granted; for we admitted
 561 Charm   |               of our acquaintance had fallen.~That, I replied, was not
 562 Charm   |             the science?~You are just falling into the old error, Socrates,
 563 Charm   |      dependent on one another, unless familiarised by idiom, have an awkward
 564 Charm   |        strength and weakness; or from fanciful resemblances to the male
 565 Charm   |              fear of my unconsciously fancying that I knew something of
 566 Charm   |         unable to agree in this newly fashioned doctrine of the Ideas, which
 567 Charm   |               to which he still holds fast, although it has often deserted
 568 Charm   |        objections which are, I think, fatal to it.~(1) First, the foundation
 569 Charm   |              to that method which the Fathers practised, sometimes called ‘
 570 Charm   |           general reader, their worst fault will be that they sacrifice
 571 Charm   |          self-assertion, affectation, faults which of all writers Plato
 572 Charm   |      misplaced, or the sense somewhat faulty, he will not strive in his
 573 Charm   |              Knight, who has not only favoured me with valuable suggestions
 574 Charm   |            some one ‘not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion
 575 Charm   |           that I was not far wrong in fearing that I could have no sound
 576 Charm   |              confused, the expression feeble, the emphasis misplaced,
 577 Charm   |             may be supposed to have a feebler and weaker insight? Are
 578 Charm   |              of church and country as females. Now the genius of the Greek
 579 Charm   |              Critica de Platonis quae feruntur Epistolis). They are full
 580 Charm   |           inferential form: they have fewer links of connection, there
 581 Charm   |               sort of supposition and fiction to be the true definition
 582 Charm   |           other labourers in the same field. The books which I have
 583 Charm   |              generally, proposes as a fifth definition, (5) Temperance
 584 Charm   |       University of Oxford who during fifty years have been the best
 585 Charm   |       magistrates, making them in all fifty-one. These palpable errors and
 586 Charm   |               Socrates is the central figure, and there are lesser performers
 587 Charm   |            irrational. And yet, after finding us so easy and good-natured,
 588 Charm   |             all the writings which he finds in the lists of learned
 589 Charm   |            The language, too, is of a finer quality; the mere prose
 590 Charm   |              more, Charmides, I said, fix your attention, and look
 591 Charm   |             plagiarized from him, but flagrantly at variance with historical
 592 Charm   |             his garment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer
 593 Charm   |            his own shoes, and his own flask and strigil, and other implements,
 594 Charm   |           Alcibiades; and to Mr Frank Fletcher, of Balliol College, my
 595 Charm   |               neuters. Hardly in some flight of poetry do we ever endue
 596 Charm   |     association, it disturbs the even flow of the style. It may be
 597 Charm   |               Tim.), and had been the follower, if not the disciple, both
 598 Charm   |              wind blows, the argument follows’. The dialogues of Plato
 599 Charm   |           body also, is the height of folly. And arguing in this way
 600 Charm   |              seven years of age— also foolish allusions, such as the comparison
 601 Charm   |            but now he could no longer forbear, and I am convinced of the
 602 Charm   |          knowledge of shoemaking?~God forbid.~Or of working in brass?~
 603 Charm   |               as no two leaves of the forest are exactly similar), it
 604 Charm   |               and every temptation to forge them; and in which the writings
 605 Charm   |               of Greek literature are forgeries. (Compare Bentley’s Works (
 606 Charm   |             Soph.), who will, I hope, forgive me for differing from him
 607 Charm   |             low estimate which he has formed of Plato’s Laws; nor with
 608 Charm   |               have two ‘buts’ or two ‘fors’ in the same sentence where
 609 Charm   |             quite certain that he put forth his definition as a riddle,
 610 Charm   |             virtue and all other high fortune: and your mother’s house
 611 Charm   |           fatal to it.~(1) First, the foundation of his argument is laid
 612 Charm   |           naturally attributed to the founder of the school. And even
 613 Charm   |              war with one another. In framing the English sentence we
 614 Charm   |          Second Alcibiades; and to Mr Frank Fletcher, of Balliol College,
 615 Charm   |              even without intentional fraud, there was an inclination
 616 Charm   |             of the ancient writer—his freedom, grace, simplicity, stateliness,
 617 Charm   |               the reader. Greek has a freer and more frequent use of
 618 Charm   |            awkward effect in English. Frequently the noun has to take the
 619 Charm   |              it should have a certain freshness and a suitable ‘entourage.’
 620 Charm   |            philosophy and came to the front in Aristotle, are variously
 621 Charm   |              authority. Reserving the fuller discussion of the question
 622 Charm   |               to go into the question fully; but I will briefly state
 623 Charm   |         review of Dr. Jackson, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie.)~
 624 Charm   |            more they will be found to furnish evidence against themselves.
 625 Charm   |              in many ways not so well furnished with powers of expression
 626 Charm   |              with him in rejecting as futile the attempt of Schleiermacher
 627 Charm   |          several friends: of the Rev. G.G. Bradley, Master of University
 628 Charm   |        headache will be an unexpected gain to my young relation, if
 629 Charm   |            advantages which are to be gained from wisdom? And are not
 630 Charm   |         through the horn or the ivory gate, I cannot tell. The dream
 631 Charm   |            once regarded as the summa genera of all things, are now to
 632 Charm   |     instruments of thought for future generations. He is no dreamer, but a
 633 Charm   |     Platonische Studien;’ Susemihl’s ‘Genetische Entwickelung der Paltonischen
 634 Charm   |           conceivable. The use of the genitive after the comparative in
 635 Charm   |             is also greatly felt. Two genitives dependent on one another,
 636 Charm   |             respect for his noble and gentle character, and the great
 637 Charm   |            great measure due to these gentlemen, and I heartily thank them
 638 Charm   |             connexion with the summum genus, the (Greek), in the Parmenides
 639 Charm   |               there of computation or geometry, in the same sense as a
 640 Charm   |            ends of the row one had to get up and the other was rolled
 641 Charm   |               my cousin Critias.~I am glad to find that you remember
 642 Charm   |             beauty, or both. Critias, glancing at the door, invited my
 643 Charm   |             for thinking it a kind of glory to have lived so many years
 644 Charm   |              The Greek of Plato often goes beyond the English in its
 645 Charm   |               us to a degree, and has gone out of its way to prove
 646 Charm   |          after finding us so easy and good-natured, the enquiry is still unable
 647 Charm   |             Greek ideal of beauty and goodness, the vision of the fair
 648 Charm   |          difficulty into which I have got myself. Shall I tell you
 649 Charm   |              such wisdom ordering the government of house or state would
 650 Charm   |             Is it not an anachronism, gracious to the modern physical philosopher,
 651 Charm   |      particles expressing the various gradations of objective and subjective
 652 Charm   |             use of his Dictionary and Grammar; but is quite unworthy of
 653 Charm   |           vehement: still, even if we grant this, temperance will not
 654 Charm   |              volumes are inscribed in grateful recognition of their never
 655 Charm   |             refuted, at which Critias grew angry, and appeared, as
 656 Charm   |             Zeller’s ‘Philosophie der Griechen,’ and ‘Platonische Studien;’
 657 Charm   |       temperance. And still more am I grieved about the charm which I
 658 Charm   |             there be some independent ground for thinking them so: when
 659 Charm   |             refer, proceed chiefly on grounds of internal evidence; they
 660 Charm   |             entering are the advanced guard of the great beauty, as
 661 Charm   |             or administered under the guidance of wisdom, and everything
 662 Charm   |             through life the unerring guides of ourselves and of those
 663 Charm   |               well ordered; for truth guiding, and error having been eliminated,
 664 Charm   |         respecting the Magna Moralia:—Haec non sunt Aristotelis, tamen
 665 Charm   |               ordinary salutation of ‘Hail!’ is not right, and that
 666 Charm   |              copy of a new Edition at half-price.~
 667 Charm   |          other doubles, these will be halves; for the double is relative
 668 Charm   |              those who knew, and have handed the business over to them
 669 Charm   |            But I ‘am not going to lay hands on my father Parmenides’ (
 670 Charm   |               to argue from what will happen if his statements are rejected.
 671 Charm   |          repeating them; so he looked hard at him and said—~Do you
 672 Charm   |              may sometimes do good or harm, and not know what he is
 673 Charm   |             Dialogues of Plato into a harmonious whole. Any such arrangement
 674 Charm   |       consecutive.~It is difficult to harmonize all these conflicting elements.
 675 Charm   |               Laws. Dr. Greenhill, of Hastings, has also kindly sent me
 676 Charm   |              to go and look at my old haunts. So I went into the palaestra
 677 Charm   |           also, in the Third Edition, headings to the pages and a marginal
 678 Charm   |            body, and try to treat and heal the whole and the part together.
 679 Charm   |            the same as doing.~And the healing art, my friend, and building,
 680 Charm   |             to these gentlemen, and I heartily thank them for the pains
 681 Charm   |        weighing is one thing, and the heavy and the light another. Do
 682 Charm   |      Charmides blushed, and the blush heightened his beauty, for modesty
 683 Charm   |               of St. Andrews, who has helped me in the revision of several
 684 Charm   |               have overlooked it. Dr. Henry Jackson, of Trinity College,
 685 Charm   |              this they all agreed.~By Heracles, I said, there never was
 686         | hereafter
 687 Charm   |            Paltonischen Philosophie;’ Hermann’s ‘Geschichte der Platonischen
 688 Charm   |             nodding’; and he will not hesitate to supply anything which,
 689 Charm   |               Temperance?~At first he hesitated, and was very unwilling
 690 Charm   |             unintelligible attempt to hide his perplexity. In order
 691 Charm   |             circle, and all this time hiding from me the fact that the
 692 Charm   |              and virtue and all other high fortune: and your mother’
 693 Charm   |              the statement respecting Hipparinus and Nysaeus, the nephews
 694 Charm   |    self-consciousness of Prodicus and Hippias, are all part of the entertainment.
 695 Charm   |        learned ancients attributed to Hippocrates, to Xenophon, to Aristotle?
 696 Charm   |               pickles, or sitting for hire in a house of ill-fame?
 697 Charm   |           when the employment was not honourable, to have thought that work
 698 Charm   |               of Philol.) that ‘Plato hoped by the study of a series
 699 Charm   |               the Phaedo, though less hopefully, he had sought to convert
 700 Charm   |             discussion, will show how hopeless is the attempt to explain
 701 Charm   |          tendencies may be called the horizontal and perpendicular lines
 702 Charm   |            whether coming through the horn or the ivory gate, I cannot
 703 Charm   |                and contrasts with the humility of Socrates. Nor in Charmides
 704 Charm   |      described in language; a ship is humorously supposed to be the sailor’
 705 Charm   |          proper business, and what is hurtful, not his business: and in
 706 Charm   |             Zamolxis or of Abaris the Hyperborean, and I may as well let you
 707 Charm   |              any single Dialogue. The hypothesis of a general plan which
 708 Charm   |              the study of a series of hypothetical or provisional classifications
 709 Charm   |            may be noted (1) The Greek ideal of beauty and goodness,
 710 Charm   |      represent Plato as the father of Idealism, who is not to be measured
 711 Charm   |              personal and impersonal, ideals and ideas, existing by participation
 712 Charm   |         Socrates is also said to have identified (Greek) with (Greek): Xen.
 713 Charm   |             who in his other writings identifies good and knowledge, here
 714 Charm   |           therefore, in attempting to identify them, any more than in wholly
 715 Charm   |         praise myself, which would be ill manners; and therefore I
 716 Charm   |        sitting for hire in a house of ill-fame? That, Socrates, is not
 717 Charm   |             see a physician about the illness of which he spoke to me
 718 Charm   |              To reproduce this living image the same sort of effort
 719 Charm   |             beyond the English in its imagery: compare Laws, (Greek);
 720 Charm   |          common note of forgery. They imitate Plato, who never imitates
 721 Charm   |              imitate Plato, who never imitates either himself or any one
 722 Charm   |        English Dialogues are but poor imitations of Plato, which fall very
 723 Charm   |               that they can even give immortality. This Thracian told me that
 724 Charm   |              there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but
 725 Charm   |               but of justice; (5) The impatience which is exhibited by Socrates
 726 Charm   |            can only realize to a very imperfect degree the common distinction
 727 Charm   |      Dialogues. They are personal and impersonal, ideals and ideas, existing
 728 Charm   |           there seems to be a kind of impertinence in presenting to the reader
 729 Charm   |             and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance
 730 Charm   |             temperance, or wisdom, if implying a knowledge of anything,
 731 Charm   |           Laws, have no philosophical importance. They do not affect the
 732 Charm   |             what that is to which the imposer of names gave this name
 733 Charm   |               But is it not much more improbable that he should have changed
 734 Charm   |               his head compels him to improve his mind: and I can tell
 735 Charm   |          elude us; our health will be improved; our safety at sea, and
 736 Charm   |             contribute greatly to the improvement of character.~The reasons
 737 Charm   |             Edition and noted several inaccuracies.~In both editions the Introductions
 738 Charm   |               are good; slowness, and inactivity, and quietness, are bad?~
 739 Charm   |             in them many plagiarisms, inappropriately borrowed, which is a common
 740 Charm   |            other senses, but which is incapable of perceiving the objects
 741 Charm   |       intentional fraud, there was an inclination to believe rather than to
 742 Charm   |                Socrates, is certainly inconceivable.~You see then, Critias,
 743 Charm   |  irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction,
 744 Charm   |          explained. Thus far we admit inconsistency in Plato, but no further.
 745 Charm   |               quite as impossible and inconsistent as the rest. It is therefore
 746 Charm   |              self will be regarded as incredible by some, but perhaps not
 747 Charm   |               looked at me in such an indescribable manner, and was just going
 748 Charm   |          works, except where they are indicated by the author himself to
 749 Charm   |          manner, although there is no indication that the author intended
 750 Charm   |             reader; at the same time, indications of the date supplied either
 751 Charm   |              which Critias is readily induced to admit at the suggestion
 752 Charm   |             Socrates, he said, is the inevitable inference.~Or if there be
 753 Charm   |             or in the Timaeus, of the infamy which attaches to the name
 754 Charm   |              his presence catches the infection of yawning from him, so
 755 Charm   |          course no doubt of the great influence exercised upon Greece and
 756 Charm   |              youth; he then said very ingenuously, that he really could not
 757 Charm   |              childlike simplicity and ingenuousness are contrasted with the
 758 Charm   |               is nothing which has an inherent property of relation to
 759 Charm   |              have been corrected, and innumerable alterations have been made
 760 Charm   |               to me these volumes are inscribed in grateful recognition
 761 Charm   |               English sentence we are insensibly diverted from the exact
 762 Charm   |             the Timaeus, which I have inserted as corrections under the
 763 Charm   |             have a feebler and weaker insight? Are not these, my friend,
 764 Charm   |               performers as well:—the insolence of Thrasymachus, the anger
 765 Charm   |         should be based, in the first instance, on an intimate knowledge
 766         | instead
 767 Charm(8)|         Spartan and Athenian Laws and Institutions.~
 768 Charm   |         appears to have had an ear or intelligence for a long and complicated
 769 Charm   |              the first thoughts of an intelligent youth; the third, which
 770 Charm   |            there anything meddling or intemperate in this?~Certainly not.~
 771 Charm   |          something else? (Socrates is intending to show that science differs
 772 Charm   |             ought to be idiomatic and interesting, not only to the scholar,
 773 Charm   |          Plato what may be termed the interests of the Greek and English
 774 Charm   |         ingenuity of Prodicus; and to interpretations or rather parodies of Homer
 775 Charm   |              more frequent use of the Interrogative, and is of a more passionate
 776 Charm   |           there is less mortar in the interstices, and they are content to
 777 Charm   |              they are separated by an interval of a thousand years, yet
 778 Charm   |             of paragraphs at suitable intervals must not be neglected if
 779 Charm   |             the first instance, on an intimate knowledge of the text; but
 780 Charm   |              body, which is playfully intimated in the story of the Thracian; (
 781 Charm   |               her; she must give some intimation of her nature and qualities,
 782 Charm   |           managed while others remain intractable. 1. The structure of the
 783 Charm   |             effect of the sentence by introducing ‘it.’ Collective nouns in
 784 Charm   |            and prevent ignorance from intruding on us. But whether by acting
 785 Charm   |               of its way to prove the inutility of that which we admitted
 786 Charm   |             and the most likely to be invented. The ancient world swarmed
 787 Charm   |             or wrong may hereafter be investigated. Admitting the existence
 788 Charm   |        Critias, glancing at the door, invited my attention to some youths
 789 Charm   |       unsupported by evidence, but to involve an anachronism in the history
 790 Charm   |             the rest. It is therefore involved in the same condemnation.—
 791 Charm   |               well as to other things involves an absolute contradiction;
 792 Charm   |               I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took
 793 Charm   |              preserves his accustomed irony to the end; he is in the
 794 Charm   |               as I think, can be more irrational. And yet, after finding
 795 Charm   |            absurdities are absolutely irreconcileable with their genuineness.
 796 Charm   |           They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies,
 797 Charm   |              But one little fact, not irrelevant to the present discussion,
 798 Charm   |             the mood of violence, are irresistible.~Do not you resist me then,
 799 Charm   |               through the horn or the ivory gate, I cannot tell. The
 800 Charm   |         genius of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age, he outdid the capabilities
 801 Charm   |          Literature.~Balliol College, January, 1871.~
 802 Charm   |             feeling and spirit of the Jewish or Christian Scriptures
 803 Charm   |            and pupils. These are:—Mr. John Purves, Fellow of Balliol
 804 Charm   |              which he has not himself joined. We cannot argue from the
 805 Charm   |             of understanding him (Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Lectures: Disc.
 806 Charm   |             he has contributed to the Journal of Philology, has put forward
 807 Charm   |             Plato,—more voyages, more journeys to visit tyrants and Pythagorean
 808 Charm   |               who judges rightly will judge of the physician as a physician
 809 Charm   |          extraneous?~True.~And he who judges rightly will judge of the
 810 Charm   |            Greek life: e.g. (Greek), ‘jurymen,’ (Greek), ‘the bourgeoisie.’ (
 811 Charm   |               Utility, Communism, the Kantian and Hegelian philosophies,
 812 Charm   |         inferior form, and still more keenly by the writer himself, who
 813 Charm   |              I have sworn, and I must keep my oath, and therefore if
 814 Charm   |       cultivated person who, like his kinsman Plato, is ennobled by the
 815 Charm   |            obligations to Mr. Matthew Knight, who has not only favoured
 816 Charm   |             of wisdom—to know what is known and what is unknown to us?~
 817 Charm   |            opposed to the division of labour which exists in every temperate
 818 Charm   |              received help from other labourers in the same field. The books
 819 Charm   |             quaint admonition not to ‘lacquey by the side of his author,
 820 Charm   |              more in that of Diogenes Laertius and Appuleius, many other
 821 Charm   |       concerned, is not so much to be lamented, I said. But for your sake,
 822 Charm   |          throughout the work, but has largely extended the Index (from
 823 Charm   |               He has been complaining lately of having a headache when
 824 Charm   |           Translation of Plato is the latest 8vo. edition of Stallbaum;
 825 Charm   |              was saying. Whereupon he laughed slyly, and looked at Critias.~
 826 Charm   |           consent, Socrates, he said, laughing.~Very good, I said; and
 827 Charm   |              Th. Martin’s ‘Etudes sur le Timee;’ Mr. Poste’s edition
 828 Charm   |         pancratium?~Certainly.~And in leaping and running and in bodily
 829 Charm   |            knowledge will more easily learn anything which he learns;
 830 Charm   |               learn anything which he learns; and that everything will
 831 Charm   |           equivalents (just as no two leaves of the forest are exactly
 832 Charm   |               sentences side by side, leaving their relation to one another
 833 Charm   |             him (Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Lectures: Disc. xv.).~There are fundamental
 834 Charm   |      enquiring to no purpose; as I am led to infer, because I observe
 835 Charm   |             and Appuleius, many other legends had gathered around the
 836 Charm   |         admitted; though neither is a legitimate element of prose writing,
 837 Charm   |              prose English is slow in lending itself to the form of question
 838 Charm   |              character, and therefore lends itself with greater readiness
 839 Charm   |             about two octavo pages in length, there occur no less than
 840 Charm   |               briefly call attention, lest I should seem to have overlooked
 841 Charm   |           bring the Greek down to the level of the modern, we must break
 842 Charm   |            But he is not therefore at liberty to omit words and turns
 843 Charm   |          authority of the Alexandrian librarians in an age when there was
 844 Charm   |          swarmed with them; the great libraries stimulated the demand for
 845 Charm   |            and also I should give the lie to Critias, and many others
 846 Charm   |               of thy mother. And here lies the point; for if, as he
 847 Charm   |             writing, they may help to lighten a cumbrous expression (Symp.).
 848 Charm   |              and elsewhere.).) It may likewise be illustrated by the ingenuity
 849 Charm   |                such as mind, measure, limit, eternity, essence (Philebus;
 850 Charm   |             the English translator is limited in the power of expressing
 851 Charm   |             such a measure as a white line is of chalk; for almost
 852 Charm   |            because it seems to form a link between ancient and modern
 853 Charm   |     inferential form: they have fewer links of connection, there is
 854 Charm   |              fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him,’
 855 Charm   |        writings which he finds in the lists of learned ancients attributed
 856 Charm   |          precise rules; and hence any literal translation of a Greek author
 857 Charm   |               whether serious or only literary. Nor is there an example
 858 Charm   |              question and answer, the lively play of fancy, the power
 859 Charm   |           from wisdom? And are not we looking and seeking after something
 860 Charm   |               of which wisdom was the lord, would have been well ordered;
 861 Charm   |               entered; and a troop of lovers followed him. That grown-up
 862 Charm   |            the Sophists; nor with the low estimate which he has formed
 863 Charm   |          proportion of the higher and lower elements of human nature
 864 Charm   |         English being really the more lucid and exact of the two languages.
 865 Charm   |             again.~And in playing the lyre, or wrestling, quickness
 866 Charm   |     considerably indebted to Mr. J.W. Mackail, late Fellow of Balliol
 867 Charm   |          Chaerephon, who is a kind of madman, started up and ran to me,
 868 Charm   |             logical precision:—‘poema magis putandum.’ But he is always
 869 Charm   |        confused with certain inferior magistrates, making them in all fifty-one.
 870 Charm   |               Scaliger respecting the Magna Moralia:—Haec non sunt Aristotelis,
 871 Charm   |               example, in the case of magnitudes, numbers, and the like?~
 872 Charm   |            one pushing with might and main at his neighbour in order
 873 Charm   |               so great an interest in maintaining. The preceding definition, ‘
 874 Charm   |             system. He is the poet or maker of ideas, satisfying the
 875 Charm   |          fanciful resemblances to the male or female form, or some
 876 Charm   |               in which he made a real manly effort to think, he said:
 877 Charm   |            myself, which would be ill manners; and therefore I do not
 878 Charm   |              them—for example, in the manufacture of shoes, or in selling
 879 Charm   |               longer included in them manufactured articles and ideas of relation,
 880 Charm   |           headings to the pages and a marginal analysis to the text of
 881 Charm   |               are generally much more marked in modern languages than
 882 Charm   |             from within. The sentence marks another step in an argument
 883 Charm   |            Thompson’s ‘Phaedrus;’ Th. Martin’s ‘Etudes sur le Timee;’
 884 Charm   |              and women in English are masculine and feminine, and there
 885 Charm   |             be probable; there are no materials which would enable us to
 886 Charm   |               distinguished; for your maternal uncle, Pyrilampes, is reputed
 887 Charm   |              great obligations to Mr. Matthew Knight, who has not only
 888 Charm   |             of the difficulty?~By all means, he replied.~Does not what
 889 Charm   |            Idealism, who is not to be measured by the standard of utilitarianism
 890 Charm   |              giving it a numerical or mechanical character.~3 This, however,
 891 Charm   |                And was there anything meddling or intemperate in this?~
 892 Charm   |             attractive a theme as the meeting of a philosopher and a tyrant,
 893 Charm   |      inferential; that is to say, the members of a sentence are either
 894 Charm   |               It may be described as ‘mens sana in corpore sano,’ the
 895 Charm   |          theirs, which I was just now mentioning, the Greek physicians are
 896 Charm   |               refer. No extant writer mentions them older than Cicero and
 897 Charm   |     Translation of the ‘Republic,’ by Messrs. Davies and Vaughan, and
 898 Charm   |          author. (c) Another caution: metaphors differ in different languages,
 899 Charm   |               determined by the great metaphysician. But even if knowledge can
 900 Charm   |            must be in due proportion. Metre and even rhyme may be rarely
 901 Charm   |             with the dialogues of the middle and later period; and a
 902 Charm   |         question which I asked, never minding whether Critias or Socrates
 903 Charm   |              could in an age when the minds of men were clouded by controversy,
 904 Charm   |                and with the help of a misapplied quotation from Hesiod assigns
 905 Charm   |       expression feeble, the emphasis misplaced, or the sense somewhat faulty,
 906 Charm   |               from that of Plato; and mistakes of fact, as e.g. about the
 907 Charm   |               have created one of the mists of history, like the Trojan
 908 Charm   |               discover the truth; but mocks us to a degree, and has
 909 Charm   |            which may also be rendered Moderation (Compare Cic. Tusc. ‘(Greek),
 910 Charm   |         equidem tum temperantiam, tum moderationem appellare, nonnunquam etiam
 911 Charm   |           appellare, nonnunquam etiam modestiam.’), Modesty, Discretion,
 912 Charm   |             without any new aspect or modification of it. And the evasion of
 913 Charm   |               of Queen’s College, Mr. Monro, Fellow of Oriel College,
 914 Charm   |        science?~Yes.~But consider how monstrous this proposition is, my
 915 Charm   |               on anything, and in the mood of violence, are irresistible.~
 916 Charm   |             to be returned to in many moods and viewed in different
 917 Charm   |         Scaliger respecting the Magna Moralia:—Haec non sunt Aristotelis,
 918 Charm   |         headache when he rises in the morning: now why should you not
 919 Charm   |               same time ‘of more than mortal knowledge’ (Rep.). But they
 920 Charm   |             connection, there is less mortar in the interstices, and
 921         | mostly
 922 Charm   |            side of his author, but to mount up behind him.’ (Dedication
 923 Charm   |            sooner had you opened your mouth, than I pretty well knew
 924 Charm   |            most use are Steinhart and Muller’s German Translation of
 925 Charm   |               harmony from the art of music, and building from the art
 926 Charm   |               writing-master’s or the music-master’s, or anywhere else, not
 927 Charm   |          believe Plato to have been a mystic or to have had hidden meanings;
 928 Charm   |      practised, sometimes called ‘the mystical interpretation of Scripture,’
 929 Charm   |            which is seen in the Greek mythology is common also in the language;
 930 Charm(4)|                                   The myths of Plato.~
 931 Charm   |               to apply. With youthful naivete, keeping his secret and
 932 Charm   |          order in which they are here named (J. of Philol.) We have
 933 Charm   |              step in an argument or a narrative or a statement; in reading
 934 Charm   |        DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Charmides, Chaerephon,
 935 Charm   |          rarely to be found in modern nations; and in order to bring the
 936 Charm   |          think is true.~You know your native language, I said, and therefore
 937 Charm   |        Palaestra of Taureas, which is near the Porch of the King Archon.~
 938 Charm   |              self-knowledge: but what necessity is there that, having this,
 939 Charm   |            suggests a subtle shade of negation which cannot be expressed
 940 Charm   |               But they are always the negations of sense, of matter, of
 941 Charm   |        suitable intervals must not be neglected if the harmony of the English
 942 Charm   |            with might and main at his neighbour in order to make a place
 943 Charm   |              to the end; he is in the neighbourhood of several great truths,
 944 Charm   |           Hipparinus and Nysaeus, the nephews of Dion, who are said to ‘
 945 Charm   |             than Cicero and Cornelius Nepos. It does not seem impossible
 946 Charm   |              the Timaeus; of Mr. R.L. Nettleship, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol
 947 Charm   |              the like, as feminine or neuter? The usage of the English
 948 Charm   |             relegated to the class of neuters. Hardly in some flight of
 949         | nevertheless
 950 Charm   |               unable to agree in this newly fashioned doctrine of the
 951 Charm   |          English writing, such as the newspaper article, is superior to
 952         | next
 953 Charm   |      particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which
 954 Charm   |            order of words or an equal nicety of emphasis in English as
 955 Charm   |               moral virtue, as in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.~The
 956 Charm   |            Give a pledge, and evil is nigh at hand,’ would appear to
 957 Charm   |             agility and quickness, is noblest and best?~Yes, certainly.~
 958 Charm   |               first, had he not been ‘nodding’; and he will not hesitate
 959 Charm   |           were coming in, and talking noisily to one another, followed
 960 Charm   |             utitur auctor Aristotelis nomine tanquam suo.)~(2) There
 961 Charm   |               the Magna Moralia:—Haec non sunt Aristotelis, tamen
 962 Charm   |               moderationem appellare, nonnunquam etiam modestiam.’), Modesty,
 963 Charm   |           borrowed, which is a common note of forgery. They imitate
 964 Charm   |     Platonische Studien;’ Stallbaum’s Notes and Introductions; Professor
 965 Charm   |              claim to have inherited, notwithstanding many accidents of time and
 966 Charm   |               English. Frequently the noun has to take the place of
 967 Charm   |          introducing ‘it.’ Collective nouns in Greek and English create
 968         | nowhere
 969 Charm   |             respecting Hipparinus and Nysaeus, the nephews of Dion, who
 970 Charm   |             sworn, and I must keep my oath, and therefore if you will
 971 Charm   |           should be very wrong not to obey you.~And I do command you,
 972 Charm   |               will briefly state some objections which are, I think, fatal
 973 Charm   |             the various gradations of objective and subjective thought—(
 974 Charm   |         language which is very rarely obscure. On the other hand, the
 975 Charm   |               to fall. They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms,
 976 Charm   |              in original thoughts and observations. I agree with him in rejecting
 977 Charm   |          benefits which mankind would obtain from their severally doing
 978 Charm   |              of nothing else?~That is obvious.~Then wisdom will not be
 979 Charm   |           avoided. Equivalents may be occasionally drawn from Shakspere, who
 980 Charm   |               me. Great amusement was occasioned by every one pushing with
 981 Charm   |             by Dr. Jackson, about two octavo pages in length, there occur
 982 Charm   |            language.~Balliol College, October, 1891.~ ~
 983 Charm   |     reproduced in a translation, give offence to the reader. Greek has
 984 Charm   |             The definitions which are offered are all rejected, but it
 985 Charm   |               then, I said, making an offering of the third or last argument
 986 Charm   |               therefore at liberty to omit words and turns of expression
 987 Charm   |           accident of composition, is omitted in the Greek, but is necessary
 988         | onto
 989 Charm   |               said, no sooner had you opened your mouth, than I pretty
 990 Charm   |            Theory’ of Plato’s Ideas I oppose the authority of Professor
 991 Charm   |              good and knowledge, here opposes them, and asks, almost in
 992 Charm   |               any more than in wholly opposing them. The great oppositions
 993 Charm   |             the Greek language is the opposite of this. The same tendency
 994 Charm   |              opposing them. The great oppositions of the sensible and intellectual,
 995 Charm   |            just now, that such wisdom ordering the government of house
 996 Charm   |           temperance was doing things orderly and quietly, such things
 997 Charm   |        violence, he replied, since he orders me; and therefore you had
 998 Charm   |         College, Mr. Monro, Fellow of Oriel College, and Mr. Shadwell,
 999 Charm   |     philosophies, Psychology, and the Origin of Language. (There have
1000 Charm   |               admit and allow, as was originally suggested, that wisdom is
1001 Charm   |              body or in human nature, originates, as he declared, in the