This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... heart from being so unused to it. Then he gets perplexed, and by his unintelligible talk he D makes himself laughed at, not indeed by Thracian slave-girls, nor by anyone else who is uneducated, --for they are not intelligent enough, --but by all who have had an education of the contrary kind to slaves ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... heart from being so unused to it. Then he gets perplexed, and by his unintelligible talk he D makes himself laughed at, not indeed by Thracian slave-girls, nor by anyone else who is uneducated, --for they are not intelligent enough, --but by all who have had an education of the contrary kind to slaves.3 Such, Theodore, is the 1 From the special or particular to the general and the abstract. 2 In the regions of the higher speculation. The words allude to iraiv lKvrri sup. Some such language may have suggested to Aristophanes to exhibit Socrates in his aerial Kpepdepa in the Nubes. 3 inSpair6Sois, while it more obviously refers to Qparrais, is meant to include the SiKaviKul, whom he had just before called 'slaves.' character of each; the one, that of a person brought up in reality with the ideas of a gentleman and with leisure at his disposal, --the philosopher, in fact, as you call him, --who may E be excused for seeming a simpleton and a mere nobody when he is suddenly required to do the services of a slave, --for instance, if he does not know how to pack a portmanteau or to flavour a relishing dish, or words of flattery.1 The other is the character of one who knows how to perform all these services2 thoroughly and promptly when called upon, but does not know how to throw his mantle over his right shoulder like a freeborn gentleman, much less has acquired the fitting language for rightly praising the true life of the gods and of happy men.2 176 Theod. Ah! Socrates, if you could persuade all men to think so, as you do me, there would be more peace and less evils in this world of ours. Soc. But it is impossible, Theodore, either that evils should be abolished, --for there must ever be some principle antagonistic to good, --or that they sh
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