 There is, however, no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience seems to show, that while in certain ages it is not difficult for a man to persuade others that he is inspired, it is still less difficult for him to contract the...  The New Monthly Magazine Vol. 114 - Page 421by William Harrison Ainsworth - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Levin Saalschütz - Egyptian language - 1847 - 612 pages
...at from the different points of view of the believer and the unbeliever : there is however no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Pythagoras Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as more a mis- . ." • • • sionary ami conceived... | |
 | George Smith - History, Ancient - 1853 - 416 pages
...ridiculed him as one " engaged in fishing for men." Grote well observes, that " there is no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by * GROTE'S " History of Greece," vol. iv.... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1853 - 440 pages
...from the different points of view of the believer and the unbeliever. There is, however, no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...to persuade others that he is inspired, it is still Jess difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras,... | |
 | George Smith - Civilization, Ancient - 1854 - 696 pages
...ridiculed him as one " engaged in fishing for men." Grote well observes, that " there is no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by witnesses in and near his own age, we find... | |
 | George Smith - History, Ancient - 1855 - 676 pages
...ridiculed him as one " engaged in fishing for men." Grote well observes, that " there is no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by witnesses in and near his own age, we find... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1884 - 526 pages
...at from the different points of view of the believer and the unbeliever. There is however no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by witnesses in and nearest to his own age... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1899 - 450 pages
...from the different pointa of view of the believer and the unbeliever. There is, however, no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by witnesses in and nearest to his own age,... | |
 | 1858 - 518 pages
...hymsilf reherses, In a book that the Golden Verses Is clepid, for the nobilite Of the honourable ditee.§ There is, however, no reason, contends Mr. Grote,...— then beginning to spread over the Grecian and Boman world, and be* " The Student," p. 2. t Notes to Book II. of " Last Days of Pompeii." j " Rise... | |
 | 1862 - 518 pages
...sincere convert to his own revelations. There is no reason, Mr. Grote^f has incidentally remarked, for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience...difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Colonel Mannering speaks like a man of sense and observation when he says of Meg Merrilies,** that... | |
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