A grammar of composition; including a practical review of the principles of rhetoric, a series of exercises in rhetorical analysis, and six introductory courses of composition - Tapa blanda
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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. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...with which they have been propounded. Plato had the most sublime ideas of the Divinity and his attributes. He taught that the human soul was a portion of the Divinity; and that this alliance with the eternal mind, might be improved in to actual intercourse with the Supreme Being, bv abstracting the soul from all the corruptions which it derives from the body: a doctrine highly flattering to the pride of man, and generating that mystical enthusiasm which has a most powerful empire over a warm imagination. The founder of the Peripatetic sect was Aristotle, the tutor of Alexander the great. He established his school in the Lyceum at Athens, and there inculcated those doctrines, which have found so many zealous partisans, and so many rancorous opponents. His metaphysics, from the sententious brevity of his expression, are extremely obscure, and they have given rise to numberless commentaries. His physical works are the result of extensive observation, and of deep acquaintance with nature; and his critical writings, as his Poetics and his Art of Rhetoric, display both taste and judgement. The peculiar passion of Aristotle was that of classifying, arranging, and combining the objects of his knowledge; so as to reduce all to a few principles: a propensity very dangerous in philosophy, and repressive to improvement in science. 16. The Stoics and the Epicureans.. The stoics believed that man's chief happiness consisted in tranquillity of mind. They endeavored, therefore, to raise themselves above all the passions and feelings of humanity. They believed all nature,. and God himself, the soul of the universe, to be regulated by fixed and immutable laws. The human soul being a portion of the Divinity, man cannot complain of being actuated by that necessity...
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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. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...with which they have been propounded. Plato had the most sublime ideas of the Divinity and his attributes. He taught that the human soul was a portion of the Divinity; and that this alliance with the eternal mind, might be improved in to actual intercourse with the Supreme Being, bv abstracting the soul from all the corruptions which it derives from the body: a doctrine highly flattering to the pride of man, and generating that mystical enthusiasm which has a most powerful empire over a warm imagination. The founder of the Peripatetic sect was Aristotle, the tutor of Alexander the great. He established his school in the Lyceum at Athens, and there inculcated those doctrines, which have found so many zealous partisans, and so many rancorous opponents. His metaphysics, from the sententious brevity of his expression, are extremely obscure, and they have given rise to numberless commentaries. His physical works are the result of extensive observation, and of deep acquaintance with nature; and his critical writings, as his Poetics and his Art of Rhetoric, display both taste and judgement. The peculiar passion of Aristotle was that of classifying, arranging, and combining the objects of his knowledge; so as to reduce all to a few principles: a propensity very dangerous in philosophy, and repressive to improvement in science. 16. The Stoics and the Epicureans.. The stoics believed that man's chief happiness consisted in tranquillity of mind. They endeavored, therefore, to raise themselves above all the passions and feelings of humanity. They believed all nature,. and God himself, the soul of the universe, to be regulated by fixed and immutable laws. The human soul being a portion of the Divinity, man cannot complain of being actuated by that necessity...
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