 | Conyers Middleton - 1741 - 434 דפים
...too low 4 as thofe raifcd it to the Heroic, thefe debafed it to the brutal ftate : they held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinefs confequendy in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life : efteeming virtue on no other... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1766 - 448 דפים
...too low ; as thofe raifed it to the Heroic, thefe debafed it to the brutal ftate : they held fleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinefs confequendy in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafureable life: cfteeming virtue on no other... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 דפים
...too low; as thofe railed it to the heroic, thefe debafed it to the brutal ftate : they held pltafute to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being; and placed their happinefs confequently in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life : efteeming virtue, on no other... | |
 | Boethius - 1785 - 270 דפים
...neighbourhood of Athens. He died about 171 years before the chriftian asra. The Epicureans held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinef* confequently in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life ; efteeming virtue on no other... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1790 - 372 דפים
...too low ; as thofe raifed it to the Heroic , thefe debafed it to the brutal ftate: they held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinefs confequently in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life : efteeming virtue on no other... | |
 | 1797 - 522 דפים
...too low ; as thofe raifed it to the heroic, thefe debafed it to the brutal ftate ; they held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinefs, confequently, in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life; cfteeming virtue on no other... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 דפים
...low ; as thofe raifed it to the heroic, thefe debafed it to the brutal fíate ; they held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happinefs, confcquently, in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurable life ; citeeming virtue on no other... | |
 | 1826 - 450 דפים
...too low ; 35 thofe raifed it to the heroic, thefe dibafed it to the brutal ftate ; they held pleafure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being; and placed their happinefs, confequently, in the fecure enjoyment of a pleafurabie life, efteeming virtue on no o.her... | |
 | Esq. J. H. JAMES (of London.) - 1847 - 184 דפים
...unto him, a* (as if) it had been a great sheet, knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth. But as the Stoics exalted human nature too high, so...depressed it too low ; as those raised it to the heroic, (so) they debased it to the brutal state. We make provisions for this life, as though it were never... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1848 - 884 דפים
...after a perpetual course of disappointments and repulses, finding himself unable to pursue his old way any farther, instead of taking a new one, he was driven...those raised it to the heroic, these debased it to toe brutal state : they held pleasure to be the chief good of man, death the extinction of his being... | |
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Philofophy to put an end to his life. But as the Stoics exalted human nature too high, fo the Epicureans... 
