University Life in Ancient Athens: Being the Substance of Four Oxford LecturesHarper & brothers, 1877 - 171 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... philosophy Stories of sudden conversion Honorary recognition of the philosophers by Athens 40 41 41 Little endowment as yet needed 42 Rival seats of learning for other branches of study The influence of old associations in favour of ...
... philosophy Stories of sudden conversion Honorary recognition of the philosophers by Athens 40 41 41 Little endowment as yet needed 42 Rival seats of learning for other branches of study The influence of old associations in favour of ...
Pàgina x
... philosopher , is as rhetorical as the Sophists . 89 As moral preachers the Sophists were surpassed by Christian doctors The dwindling numbers and reputation of the Schools Illustrations from Libanius of the poverty of Professors 90 91 ...
... philosopher , is as rhetorical as the Sophists . 89 As moral preachers the Sophists were surpassed by Christian doctors The dwindling numbers and reputation of the Schools Illustrations from Libanius of the poverty of Professors 90 91 ...
Pàgina xi
... philosophers were devout and claimed powers over the spirit world · • 120 • . 127 . 121 The Christian alarm and dislike of the schools of rhetoric . 122 The complaints of Libanius of the discouragement to study 123 Brighter times came ...
... philosophers were devout and claimed powers over the spirit world · • 120 • . 127 . 121 The Christian alarm and dislike of the schools of rhetoric . 122 The complaints of Libanius of the discouragement to study 123 Brighter times came ...
Pàgina 10
... philosophy sought to gain a hearing in their halls , and rival systems even took their names from buildings such as these , where they catered for the in- tellect , while trainers a few yards off were drilling the body in the laws of ...
... philosophy sought to gain a hearing in their halls , and rival systems even took their names from buildings such as these , where they catered for the in- tellect , while trainers a few yards off were drilling the body in the laws of ...
Pàgina 12
... philosophy and rhetoric and grammar , or , in a word , for all the larger and more liberal studies . Nor did it favour any special set of tenets to the exclusion of the rest . It encouraged impartially all the schools of higher ...
... philosophy and rhetoric and grammar , or , in a word , for all the larger and more liberal studies . Nor did it favour any special set of tenets to the exclusion of the rest . It encouraged impartially all the schools of higher ...
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