This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of friends are common." "Will you then lend me your putter to knock yonder sophist on the head?" I asked, but he denied it with an oath. "Neither then," said I, "oh best of men, will I carry your clubs, for it does not become one who has not learned an art to practise it." Critias was now building a small altar of sea ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of friends are common." "Will you then lend me your putter to knock yonder sophist on the head?" I asked, but he denied it with an oath. "Neither then," said I, "oh best of men, will I carry your clubs, for it does not become one who has not learned an art to practise it." Critias was now building a small altar of sea sand, on which he placed a white ball, and addressed himself to it in a pious manner, and becomingly. "It is a singularly fine morning," I remarked; on hearing which he smote his ball, not rightly, nor according to law, but on the top, so tliat it ran into the road, and there lay in a rut. "Tell me, Critias," I said, "do you think it becoming a philosopher, and one who studies the sacred writings even of the extreme Barbarians, to be incapable of self-command, and that in a trifling matter such as whether a ball is hit fairly, or not fairly?" But he seized an iron club, and glared upon me so fiercely that I turned to Charmides, who was now about to hit his ball for the second time. He observing that it was a "beautiful lie," I asked hiim "Charmides, can we say that any lie is really beautiful or noble, or are not nobility and beauty rather the attributes of the True?" He thereupon struck his ball, but not skilfully, so that it fell into the Ilissus, which did not seem to be his intention, but otherwise. "Socrates," he said, "you have made me heel it." "That," I answered, "is rather the function of the physician; and yet no harm may be done, for shall we not say that healing is also an art, and beneficial?" But by this time they had crossed the Ilissus walking, one by a bridge of stone, the other by a bridge of wood, wher...
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