Dialogue

1502 Charm   |               more temperate than the unquiet, seeing that temperance
1503 Charm   |          appears to me not only to be unsupported by evidence, but to involve
1504 Charm   |               hesitated, and was very unwilling to answer: then he said
1505 Charm   |              ever be casting his eyes upwards from the copy to the original,
1506 Charm   |               feminine or neuter? The usage of the English language
1507 Charm   |           they too would give equally useful pieces of advice. Shall
1508 Charm   |             all. For things nobly and usefully made he called works; and
1509 Charm   |               never have seemed to us useless, if I had been good for
1510 Charm   |  awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words. They also contain
1511         | using
1512 Charm   |           measured by the standard of utilitarianism or any other modern philosophical
1513 Charm   |       subjects discussed in these are Utility, Communism, the Kantian
1514 Charm   |               sunt Aristotelis, tamen utitur auctor Aristotelis nomine
1515 Charm   |               Because, I said, he who uttered them seems to me to have
1516 Charm   |          enquiry. But now I have been utterly defeated, and have failed
1517 Charm   |           wanting in the later ones. (v) Their resemblance to one
1518 Charm   |             but are always seeking in vain to have a more perfect notion
1519 Charm   | self-knowledge which philosophers are vainly trying to define in words.
1520 Charm   |               conversing with him had vanished. And when Critias told him
1521 Charm   |              should be rhythmical and varied, the right admixture of
1522 Charm   |            occur in the same passage, varying them by an ‘or’—e.g. (Greek), ‘
1523 Charm   |                 by Messrs. Davies and Vaughan, and the Translation of
1524 Charm   |              many quiet, as quick and vehement: still, even if we grant
1525 Charm   |             or from a participle to a verb, will often remedy the unpleasant
1526 Charm   |             concrete English, or vice versa, and he ought not to force
1527 Charm   |      necessary in prose as well as in verse: clauses, sentences, paragraphs,
1528 Charm   |       commemorated in the panegyrical verses of Anacreon, Solon, and
1529 Charm   |              particular passages. His version should be based, in the
1530 Charm   |             more concrete English, or vice versa, and he ought not
1531 Charm   |         vision of vision, but only of visible things; no love of loves,
1532 Charm   |            regain confidence, and the vital heat returned. Such, Charmides,
1533 Charm   |        considerably indebted to Mr. J.W. Mackail, late Fellow of
1534 Charm   |          speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one ‘not to bring the
1535 Charm   |      compelled every man to weave and wash his own coat, and make his
1536 Charm   |           knowledge, for wisdom would watch and prevent ignorance from
1537 Charm   |           words are more plastic than wax’ (Rep.), and ‘whither the
1538 Charm   |            their demands, are in many ways not so well furnished with
1539 Charm   |        supposed to have a feebler and weaker insight? Are not these,
1540 Charm   |               degrees of strength and weakness; or from fanciful resemblances
1541 Charm   |               repeating themselves to weariness in the rough draft of a
1542 Charm   |          which compelled every man to weave and wash his own coat, and
1543 Charm   |             shoes, and the art of the weaver clothes?—whether the art
1544 Charm   |       University College, now Dean of Westminster, who sent me some valuable
1545 Charm   |             you certainly possess it. Wherefore examine yourself, and see
1546         | Whereupon
1547 Charm   |            that whole family is not a whit inferior to the other. Having
1548 Charm   |            simply such a measure as a white line is of chalk; for almost
1549         | whither
1550 Charm   |         difficult and to diverge most widely from the English idiom.
1551 Charm   |            been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled
1552 Charm   |              am concerned, I shall be willing to be charmed by you daily,
1553 Charm   |               Rep.), and ‘whither the wind blows, the argument follows’.
1554 Charm   |           previous admissions, I will withdraw them, rather than admit
1555 Charm   |              in style or motive, like witnesses who agree in the same tale,
1556 Charm   |               of the genders. Men and women in English are masculine
1557 Charm   |              cannot; and I should not wonder if the man himself who used
1558 Charm   |         Certainly not.~Or in wool, or wood, or anything of that sort?~
1559 Charm   |           brass?~Certainly not.~Or in wool, or wood, or anything of
1560 Charm   |               a general plan which is worked out in the successive Dialogues
1561 Charm   |            and such makings he called workings, and doings; and he must
1562 Charm   |           skilfully made, because the workmen will be good and true. Aye,
1563 Charm   |             as men speak; but, when a worshipper enters, the first word which
1564 Charm   |             not his salutation of the worshippers at their first coming in;
1565 Charm   |             the general reader, their worst fault will be that they
1566 Charm   |              a thing which is nothing worth. I think indeed that there
1567 Charm   |               in playing the lyre, or wrestling, quickness or sharpness
1568 Charm   |              nothing when he reads or writes?~I should rather think that
1569 Charm   |              great master of language wrote as clearly as he could in
1570 Charm   |      identified (Greek) with (Greek): Xen. Mem.) and is not yet relegated
1571 Charm   |             Reynolds’ Lectures: Disc. xv.).~There are fundamental
1572 Charm   |              catches the infection of yawning from him, so did he seem
1573 Charm   |               one person when another yawns in his presence catches
1574 Charm   |          invited my attention to some youths who were coming in, and
1575 Charm   |             third or last argument to Zeus the Saviour, let us begin