 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 страници
...represents Socrates as an innovator in his day,) "are turning off attention from life to Nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars: Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars. Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars. Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 394 страници
...human mind; and we ought not," he adds, " to turn off attention from life to nature, as if we were placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars." That a violent shock had been given in the sixteenth century to certain time-honoured dogmas,... | |
 | 1856 - 792 страници
...upon life ; but, the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from lifo to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars. Socrates was rather of opinion that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars: Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 880 страници
...upon life; but, the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars. Socrates was rather of opinion that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 страници
...upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars. Socrates was rather of opinion that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil:—... | |
 | 1867 - 548 страници
...life; but the in' novators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to ' nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch ' the growth of plants and the motions of the stars. Socrates ' was rather of opinion that what we had to learn was, how to... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 страници
...life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning from life to nature. They seem to think that ice are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars."* So much, then, for the " popery" of making students really acquainted with Latin and Greek—so... | |
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