| Charles Bossut - 1803 - 580 страница
...reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did pot vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered...excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge be so valuable for the curious frame and amazing power of those machines... | |
| Plutarchus - 1810 - 746 страница
...reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanies, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid; and placed his whole delight... | |
| Plutarch - 1811 - 352 страница
...reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising solely from truth and demonstration. If mechanical knowledge indeed be valuable for the curious frame... | |
| Plutarch - 1816 - 314 страница
...rouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For be considered all attention to mechanics, and ev«ry art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid ; and placed bis whole delight in those intellectual speculations which, without any relation to the necessities... | |
| Plutarch - 1821 - 378 страница
...reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered...excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge is valuable for the curious frame and amazing power of those machines... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 524 страница
...gained the reputation of a man of divine, rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered...excellence, arising from truth and demonstration only." Surely nothing can be more preposterous than to entertain an opinion that those arts, which minister... | |
| Plutarch - 1822 - 504 страница
...not vouchsafe to leave any account ot them in writing; for he considered all attention to mechanu:it, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean...excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge is valuable for the curious frame and amazing power of those machines... | |
| 1824 - 706 страница
...regarded as the master-work of his life, when he selected these emblems for that forgotten tombstoue which Cicero searched for and found. All these writings,...whole delight in those intellectual speculations, whiqh, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth... | |
| Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 страница
...the reputation of a person endowed almost with divine knowledge ; yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing : for he considered all attention to mechanics, and every art which ministers merely to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual... | |
| Plutarch - 1831 - 380 страница
...reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowlege, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing : for he considered...excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowlege is valuable for the curious frame and amazing power of those machines... | |
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