Bonum per se, Pulchrum per se, and the other self-existent Forms or Ideas, are to us altogether unknowable.
Pulchrum Turpe; Delightfull Profitable; Unpleasant Unprofitable The Latine Tongue has two words, whose significations approach to those of Good and Evill; but are not precisely the same; And those are Pulchrum and Turpe.
Non id quod magnum est pulchrum est, sed id quod pulchrum magnum=--Not that which is great is noble (lit.
And elsewhere again he omits clarity, this being a necessary effect of order: "pulchrum in debita proportione consistit".
Side-note: The definition of Pulchrum and Turpe, given by Sokrates, will not hold.
But the Pulchrum and the Eligibile per se belongs to the same side of the series of Contraries, as the Cogitabilia per se: and the Primum Pulchrum or Eligibile is the Best or akin thereunto, in its own particular ascending scale (b.
For permission to reproduce the "Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori" portrait of John Tutchin as the frontispiece, I wish to express my thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum.
The "Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori" portrait, reprinted here as the frontispiece, was circulated to attest to Tutchin's political martyrdom.
It is a grave saying of Plutarch, Pulchrumquidem est justitia regnum adipisci: pulchrum etiam regno justitiam anteponere: nam virtus alterum ita illustrem reddidit, ut regno dignus judicaretur; alterum ita magnum ut id contemneret.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulchrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
