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A. W. VERRALL action adversary Æsop Alcidamas already anger appears argued argument Aristotle Aristotle's audience Callippus cause CHAP CHAPTER character clauses commit compassion crime criminal definition deliberative demonstrative desire Dialectic emotions emulation enthy enthymemes envy epideictic epideictic speeches especially ethical eulogy Euripides evil example exordia exordium expediency expression fact feel forensic Fortune friends Gorgias greater Hence honour Iliad injury instance Iphicrates Isocrates judges justice kinds of Rhetoric maxim means metaphor moral nature necessary Nireus noble oath objects Odysseus one's opposite orator oratory ourselves pain panegyric particular passage persons persuasion placable Plato pleasant pleasure poetical poetry political possess possible proof proper protasis racter reason refutation regard Rhetoric rhetorician sense sentence shame simile slight Sophocles speaker style syllogism Theodectes things tion topic trireme true virtue virtuous indignation wealth words γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν περὶ τὰ τῆς τὸ τῶν
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Page viii - Und so ist jeder Übersetzer anzusehen, daß er sich als Vermittler dieses allgemein geistigen Handels bemüht und den Wechseltausch zu befördern sich zum Geschäft macht; denn was man auch von der Unzulänglichkeit des Übersetzens sagen mag, so ist und bleibt es doch eines der wichtigsten und würdigsten Geschäfte in dem allgemeinen Weltverkehr. Der Koran sagt: „Gott hat jedem Volke einen Propheten gegeben in seiner eigenen Sprache.
Page 166 - Youth is the age when people are most devoted to their friends or relations or companions, as they are then extremely fond of social intercourse, and have not yet learnt to judge their friends or indeed anything else by the rule of expediency.
Page 166 - If the young commit a fault, it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration, in defiance of Chilon's maxim [/wjSJv ayav ] - for they carry everything too far, whether it be their love, or hatred, or anything else. They regard themselves as omniscient, and are positive in their assertions; this is, in fact, the reason of their carrying everything too far.
Page 165 - ... of hunger and thirst. They are passionate, irascible and apt to be carried away by their impulses. They are the slaves too of their passion, as their ambition prevents their ever brooking a slight and renders them indignant at the mere idea of enduring an injury. And while they are fond of...
Page 164 - The young are in character prone to desire and ready to carry any desire they may have formed into action. Of bodily desires it is the sexual to which they are most disposed to give way, and in regard to sexual desire they exercise no self-restraint. They are changeful, too, and fickle in their desires, which are as transitory as they are vehement; for their wishes are keen without being permanent, like a sick man's fits of hunger and thirst. They are passionate, irascible, and apt to be carried...
Page 165 - They have high aspirations; for they have never yet been humiliated by the experience of life, but are unacquainted with the limiting force of circumstances; and a great idea of one's own deserts, such as is characteristic of a sanguine disposition, is itself a form of high aspiration. Again, in their actions they prefer...