 ... never become so perfect a copy of Zeno, if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato, Aristotle, and the other philosophers of that school, profited more by the example, than by the discourse of Socrates.  Letters on the Study and Use of History - Page 17by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1752 - 481 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1768 - 376 pages
...become fo perfect a copy of Zeno, if he had not pal fed his life with him ; that Plato, Ariftotle, and the other philofophers of that fchool, profited...four years according to others, before the birth of Ariftotle : And his miftake might come from the inaccuracy of thofe who collected for him ; as Erafmus... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1793 - 570 pages
...never become fo perfect a copy of Zeno, if he had not paffed his life with him ; that Plato, Ariftotle, and the other philofophers of that. '» fchool, profited...the \ difcourfe of Socrates. (But here, by the way, v Seneca miftook ; for Socrates died two years according to fome, and four years according to others,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...become fo perfect a copy of / -no, if he had not pafled his life with him ; that Plato, Ariltotle, and the other philofophers of that fchool, profited more by the example than by the difcourfes of Socrates. (But here by the way Seneca nnftook; Socrates died two years accordin? to Tome,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...never become fo perfefl a copy of Zeno, if he had not pafled his life with him ; that Plato, Ariftotle, and the other philofophers of that fchool, profited more by the example than by the difcourfes of Socrates. (But here by the way Seneca miftook; Socrates died two years according to fome,... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 pages
...discourse of Socrates. (But here, by the way, Seneca mistook; for Socrates died two years accordingto some, and four years according to others, before the birth of Aristotle: and his mistake might come from the inaccuracy of those who collected for him, as Erasmus observes, after Quintilian,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 486 pages
...of Socrates. (But here, by the way, Seneca mistook ; for Socrates died two years accordingto some, and four years according to others, before the birth of Aristotle; and his mistake might come from the inaccuracy of those who collected for him, as Erasmus observes, after Quintilian,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...discourses of Socrales. (But here, by the way, Seneca mistook ; Socrates died two years according to some, t'rous mind. О ed a Style florid and diffuse. The like sort of characteris mistake mij;ht come from the inaccuracy of those who collected for him ; as Erasmus observes, after... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...profited more by the exam pie than by the difcourfes of Socrates, (But here by the way Seneca miftoolt ; Socrates died two years according to fome, and four years according to Others, before the birth of Ari.totlc : and his miftake might come from the inaccuracy of thofe who colleited for him ; as EJrafmus... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...of Socrates.6 [But here, by the way, Seneca mistook ; for Socrates died two years according to some, and four years according to others, before the birth of Aristotle : and his mistake might come from the inaccuracy of those who collected for him ; as Erasmus observes, after... | |
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