... the immortals call him dove, or the winged one, in order to rep resent the force of his wings—such at any rate is his nature. Now the characters of ... ...e charioteer, who beholds the beloved with awe, falls back in adoration, and forces both the steeds on their haunches; again the evil steed rushes for... ... and more severe; and at last the charioteer , throwing himself back wards, forces the bit out of the clenched teeth of the brute, and pulling harder... ... in a conge nial soil the little seed becomes a tree, and ‘the birds of the air build their nests in the branches.’ There is an echo of this in the p... ...iend Acumenus tells me that it is much more refresh ing to walk in the open air than to be shut up in a cloister. SOCRATES: There he is right. Lysias... ...hs. How delightful is the breeze:—so very sweet; and there is a sound in the air shrill and summerlike which makes answer to the chorus of the cicadae... ...e first period of his earthly existence. Every one chooses his love from the ranks of beauty according to his char 82 Plato acter, and this he makes...

...elm was lightly rustling overhead. There was an evening fresh- ness in the air. The monk from Obdorsk bowed down before the saint and asked his blessi... ...tted through his mind as he entered the draw- ing-room. Another idea, too, forced itself upon him: “What if she loved neither of them—neither Ivan nor... ...don’t want your hand. Den Dank, Dame, begehr ich nicht,”* he added, with a forced smile, showing, however, that he could read Schiller, and read him t... ...dow, sud- denly turning to her father with a disdainful and contemptu- ous air. “Wait a little, Varvara!” cried her father, speaking peremp- toril... ... Get up, Alexey Fyodorovitch.” He took him by the hand and with unexpected force pulled him up. “You must stand up to be introduced to a lady . It’s n... ...,’ he answered; ‘you ought to open a window-pane or open the door, for the air is not fresh here.’ And they all go on like that! And what is my breath... ...” But I awakened and would not serve madness. I turned back and joined the ranks of those who have cor- rected Thy work. I left the proud and went bac...

...went to the Caucasus, was promoted, fought a duel, and was degraded to the ranks, earned promotion again, led a wild life, and spent a good deal of mo... ...was in great straits for the first two years at the university , as he was forced to keep him- self all the time he was studying. It must be noted tha... ...saw, but when he did see he said, “My Lord and my God!” Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he d... ...to bear on the elder, who of late had scarcely left his cell, and had been forced by illness to deny even his ordinary visitors. In the end he consent... ...een already; un chevalier parfait,” and Maximov snapped his fingers in the air. “Who is a chevalier?” asked Miusov. “The elder, the splendid elder, th... ...ngely awkward way, held out his hand to her too. Lise assumed an important air. “Katerina Ivanovna has sent you this through me.” She handed him a... ...lessness Ivan showed him. “Hitherto at least I have stood in the front ranks of all that is progressive in Europe, and here the new generation pos... ...necdote, gentlemen,” Miusov said impressively , with a peculiarly majestic air. “Some years ago, soon after the coup d’etat of December, I happened to... ...” But I awakened and would not serve madness. I turned back and joined the ranks of those who have cor- rected Thy work. I left the proud and went bac...

...went to the Caucasus, was promoted, fought a duel, and was degraded to the ranks, earned promotion again, led a wild life, and spent a good deal of mo... ...was in great straits for the first two years at the university , as he was forced to keep him- self all the time he was studying. It must be noted tha... ...saw, but when he did see he said, “My Lord and my God!” Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he d... ...to bear on the elder, who of late had scarcely left his cell, and had been forced by illness to deny even his ordinary visitors. In the end he consent... ...een already; un chevalier parfait,” and Maximov snapped his fingers in the air. “Who is a chevalier?” asked Miusov. “The elder, the splendid elder, th... ...ngely awkward way, held out his hand to her too. Lise assumed an important air. “Katerina Ivanovna has sent you this through me.” She handed him a... ...lessness Ivan showed him. “Hitherto at least I have stood in the front ranks of all that is progressive in Europe, and here the new generation pos... ...necdote, gentlemen,” Miusov said impressively , with a peculiarly majestic air. “Some years ago, soon after the coup d’etat of December, I happened to...

...e frankness and im petuousness of youth; he is for detaining Socrates by force in the opening scene, and will not “let him off” on the subject of w... ...ge; they are only acquainted with artificial systems possessing no native force of truth— words which admit of many applications. Their leaders have... ...ppose’ is not the word—I know it; but you will be found out, and by sheer force of argument you will never prevail. I shall not make the attempt, my ... ...s of Zeus, whose ancestral altar, the attar of Zeus, is aloft in air on the peak of Ida, and who have the blood of deities yet flo... ...has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards the child becau... ...our citi zens will be the bravest of warriors, and will never leave their ranks, for they will all know one another, and each will call the other fat... ...t he had invented number, and had numbered the ships and set in array the ranks of the army at Troy; which implies that they had never been num ber...

...ook no thought for raiment, and had no beds, but lived and dwelt in the open air. Such was the age of Cronos, and the age of Zeus is our own. Tell me,... ...laws. But is a physician only to cure his patients by persuasion, and not by force? Is he a worse physi- cian who uses a little gentle violence in eff... ...at the liber- ties of no class are safe in the hands of the rest. The higher ranks have the advantage in education and manners, the middle and lower i... ... the hand of man. And they dwelt naked, and mostly in the 76 Statesman open air, for the temperature of their seasons was mild; and they had no beds,... ...a softness proportioned to the intertexture of the warp and to the degree of force used in dressing the cloth,—the threads which are thus spun are cal... ...hey are very common among us. STRANGER: And what are the rules which are en- forced on their pupils by professional trainers or by others having simil...

... disorder in the world should ridicule my attempt. Now the elements earth, air, fire, water, exist in us, and they exist in the cosmos; but they are p... ...emly, and the greatest pleasures are put out of sight. Not pleasure, then, ranks first in the scale of good, but measure, and eternal harmony. Second ... ...ind is ten thousand times nearer to the chief good than pleasure. Pleasure ranks fifth and not first, even though all the animals in the world assert ... ...xed or set, and in after life are strengthened, or perhaps weakened by the force of public opinion. They may be corrected and en- larged by experience... ...duce to the happi- ness of mankind, though true enough, seems to have less force than the feeling which is already implanted in the mind by conscience... ...nts which enter into the nature of the bodies of all animals, fire, water, air, and, as the storm-tossed sailor cries, ‘land’ (i.e., earth), reappear ...