Passing to the reflections of Cleon, with the Greek theory and practice of life there set forth, we reached the utmost heights attainable by paganism.
In human nature, as at present constituted, one is bound to suffer at the expense of the other; the sound mind in the sound body is unfortunately a counsel of perfection too rarely attainable in practical life.
But for this there is no warrant; for the Greek all attainable satisfaction must be sought through the present phase of existence alone.
The beauty of the pleading, rising sequences in crossing parts that we find in the canon in the 2nd at the opening of the Recordare in Mozart's Requiem is attainable by no other technical means.
From Flanders he sent Count Melito to Spain with orders to raise forced loans from nobles and prelates, and the Princess Juana, then Governor, called among others on Valdes for a hundred and fifty thousand ducats.
Carranza's treatment was vastly better than that of ordinary prisoners confined in the cells of the secret prison.
The only recommendation of the accursed city was that a solitude was attainable in it, as in other crowded spots, which enabled him to work better there than in the small and exacting throng of country-houses.
For his four works in the class of political history he had the best attainable authorities and material, and no one was ever more diligent in putting them to the best possible use.
For the world of Socrates is a world in which Reality and Truth reign and are attainable by man; never does he even ask whether truth is or can be reached by us, but only what it is and where it lies and how it can be attained.
From them we may be sure that the efficiency of the nine-inch mirror used was not sensibly less than that of the highest theoretically attainable excellence.
In his efforts to find a method for determining the dimensions of the stellar universe, he was finally led, as has been shown, to regard the brightness of a star as, in general, the best attainable measure of its distance from us.
They consist of figure subjects and landscapes on a small scale, shaded with all the delicacy and roundness attainable in a tinted drawing, and certainly show how near Intarsia can approach to painting.
Goethe has told us that the way to develop the aesthetic faculty is to have constantly before our eyes, that is, in the room we most frequent, some work of the best attainable art.
The highest point attainable by the individual, the everlasting bliss, is made an immersion into substance, a vanishing away of consciousness, and thus of all distinction between substance and individuality—hence an annihilation.
Such an aim is pronounced to be the highest end attainable by man.
But the truth is that, in addition to vision, happiness demands delight, and this is a thing which has very little to do, with rationalism and is only attainable when we feel ourselves distinct from God.
A result seems attainable by means of simple tenotomy on both sides, which is expressed by prism 20 deg.
Moreover, the extent of the "facultative" divergence attainable by prisms shows a considerable latitude.
The left eye frequently deviates outwards, convergence is attainable to 15 cm.
Blue and white are easily attainable by mating a blue male with a white and black female.
At any rate they were procured as a great favour, after much delay and great difficulty, and since that time no others have been attainable by the same person.
Attainable on Earth, Not by Our Merit, but by the Goodness of Our Lord.
At this period, from the best attainable information, the Cherokees numbered twenty-one thousand souls.
Now, Browning held, not only that no certain knowledge is attainable by man, but also that such certainty is incompatible with moral life.
When wounded he betakes himself to the highestattainable point of the tree, and emits a singular cry, consisting at first of high notes, which at length deepen into a low roar, not unlike that of a panther.
Learners work for three dollars or less per week, the highest wages attainable in either being fifteen dollars, the average being about nine.
Like Martin, he had the power of investing every landscape and building he touched with an importance and majesty not attainable by meaner hands.
He early formed the design of reaching the limits of the attainable in enlarging the powers of the telescope, and the qualities of his mind conspired with the circumstances of his fortune to render the design a feasible one.
For millions of stars can be determined by its means, from their imprinted images, with an accuracy comparable to that attainable by direct meridian observations.
It sets these evils up as benefits and blessings representing the highest attainable degree of honor and virtue, whilst any criticism of or revolt against them is savagely persecuted as the extremity of vice.
The people who talk and write as if the highest attainable state is that of a family stewing in love continuously from the cradle to the grave, can hardly have given five minutes serious consideration to so outrageous a proposition.
Every gas has been liquefied, and probably the lowest degree of cold attainable by man has been reached.
Pictet has shown that at the low temperatures which are now easily attainable all chemical action stops, even the most energetic substances lying in contact with each other quiet and inert.
