Note: When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopherof the sixteenth century.
Defn: A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
Defn: One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a.
Defn: A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.
British bull-bitch (afterwards the happy mother of nine sweet infants) for his sole guide, philosopher and friend.
Here you see are thronging the young and the old, the philosopher and the student, the statesman and the mechanic, all with happy faces, and each intent that his neighbour shall share in his happiness.
A part of the world rendered particularly interesting to the philosopher by the many important incidents which, from the early history of the world, have there occurred," added the professor.
Horace was not more happy when, in defence of Aristippus, he declared that any philosopher would turn up his nose at cabbage if he could get himself asked to the tables of rich men.
From reading these, without reference to the idiosyncrasies of the writer, the student would be led to believe that Cicero himself was a philosopher after that sort.
When Augustine wrote his "City of God," the philosopher of history confirmed the vision of the seer, as he celebrated the triumphs of that word which planted the cross above the throne of the Caesars.
It is what the philosopher calls the law of ultimates, or the process from firsts to lasts and from lasts to firsts.
Who has exercised this blessed ministry of the interpretation of nature better than Wordsworth, poet and philosopher at once as he is?
He supported their general principles in the tone of a magistrate who applies, and not as a philosopher who explains them.
No one was less a philosopher of the eighteenth century, or a liberal of the nineteenth, than the Count de Montlosier.
The passages of the philosopher dealing with these subjects are of particular interest, as they may be said, with a good deal of truth, to be the true starting point of mediæval economics.
I have heard, indeed, of the laughing hyena; but my information respecting it is mainly drawn from Shakspeare, who was rather a great philosopher and poet than a great naturalist.
Mr. Darwin favors the opinion of the late Mr. Knight, the great philosopher of horticulture, that variability tinder domestication is somehow connected with excess of food.
We should expect the philosophical atheist or skeptic to take this ground; also, until better informed, the unlearned and unphilosophical believer; but we should think that the thoughtful theistic philosopher would take the other side.
To solve the mysteries of the universe, as the French lady required a philosopher to explain his new system, "dans un mot," is beyond rational expectation.
The philosopher of Konigsberg supposed himself to be analyzing a necessary mode of thought: he was not aware that he was dealing with a mere abstraction.
I mean to say that a philosopher is a gentleman, but a lawyer is a servant.
Now, in all these cases our philosopher is derided by the vulgar, partly because he is thought to despise them, and also because he is ignorant of what is before him, and always at a loss.
The philosopher is unacquainted with the world; he hardly knows whether his neighbour is a man or an animal.
The philosopher naturally desires to pour forth the thoughts which are always present to him, and to discourse of the higher life.
It has no conception of obligation, duty, conscience--these are to the Epicurean or Utilitarian philosopher only names which interfere with our natural perceptions of pleasure and pain.
This had not been even imagined by either philosopher or engineer until discovered by Carnot as late as 1824.
Him, too, for this reason I abandoned, believing him to be nophilosopher at all.
Still more incomprehensible to modern students is the fact that Marcus Aurelius, the imperial philosopher and benevolent man, should also be stained with the infamy of the persecutions.
The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill-calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety which often discovered personal merit in the meanest of mankind.
Lactantius speaks of another philosopher who endeavored to convince the Christians they were in error; but his name is not mentioned.
There seemed no reason why our poet-philosopher should not have been happier here than ever before.
The freeman must release the slave, the philosopher think for the fool, the happy man labor for the unhappy.
A philosopher without fancy, without history, and without a general knowledge of the most important things, is more one-sided than a politician.
In this the critical philosopher has imitated him, but with greater advantage.
With what calmness did that illustrious philosopher contemplate the rapid approach of his own death!
His cousin, the philosopher Henrik Steffens, had returned to Copenhagen in 1802 full of the teaching of Schelling and his lectures and the early poetry of Ohlenschlager opened the eyes of Grundtvig to the new era in literature.
The complaints of the English statesman do not, however, amount in volume to a fiftieth part of those reiterated out pourings of lachrymose eloquence with which the Roman philosopher bewailed an expatriation that was hardly one-third as long.
This character varies from that of Chaucer, as the contemplative philosopher varies from the poetical genius.
Let the Philosopher always be the servant and scholar of Inspiration, and all will be happy.
Then Immanuel Kant grows pitiful, and shows that he is not only a great philosopher but also a good man.
A poet and a philosopher getting up into a Unitarian pulpit to preach the Gospel, was a romance in these degenerate days, a sort of revival of the primitive spirit of Christianity, which was not to be resisted.
An ancient philosopher indeed started a philosophy of the relative, but only as an enigma.
For example, Pythagorus, the great Greek philosopher of the sixth century B.
An English physician-philosopher born on the Isle of Wight in 1635.
A Roman philosopher and statesman to whom is sometimes attributed the invention of the clock.
A Treatise on Medicine, based on a similar work composed by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Sina.
Kalonymos was therefore not merely a laughing philosopher like Democritus, but a stern moralist who ridiculed certain objectionable characteristics of the Jews, indicating thereby the way to self-restraint and good taste.
From Yedaya's numerous writings it is obvious that he was a philosopher and moralist, a Talmudical scholar and an expert in medicine, and above all a clever writer of Hebrew prose and poetry.
The crop promised to be magnificent, and the fashionable philosopherof the age took other than a merely scientific interest in the experiment.
To Renouard the philosopher appeared simply the most treacherous of fathers.
The only literary newspaper in the Antipodes could not ignore the fashionablephilosopher of the age.
He was engaged in ransacking the spoils of ancient and modern philosophy, and in the assimilation of it all; he would be like Moliere, a profound philosopher first, and a writer of comedies afterwards.
Bargeton bore himself like a man of uncommon sense and spirit, and justified the opinion of those who held that he was a philosopher of the school of Pythagoras.
Your dictionary will tell you that the word philosopher means properly a lover of wisdom.
Is our barking critic quite sure that he knows what philosopher stands for, or what philosophy means?
A philosopher always, he shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the ropes which bound him.
It's easier to wish 'em than to bring 'em," replied the philosopher Griggs.
Jefferson was too much of a philosopher to be disturbed by such gibes; but he did have certain constitutional doubts concerning the treaty.
