Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 197
... Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be at INTELLECT 197.
... Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be at INTELLECT 197.
Page 218
... Proclus , ' exhibits , in its trans- figurations , clear images of the splendour of intellectual perceptions ; being moved in conjunction with the un- apparent periods of intellectual natures . ' Therefore , science always goes abreast ...
... Proclus , ' exhibits , in its trans- figurations , clear images of the splendour of intellectual perceptions ; being moved in conjunction with the un- apparent periods of intellectual natures . ' Therefore , science always goes abreast ...
Page 228
... Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of ' Gentilesse , ' compares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus ...
... Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of ' Gentilesse , ' compares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus ...
Page 345
... Proclus , and sometimes Plato , as I might read a dictionary , for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination . I read for the lustres , as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment , for its rich colours ...
... Proclus , and sometimes Plato , as I might read a dictionary , for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination . I read for the lustres , as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment , for its rich colours ...
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