The orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, tr. by W. Guthrie, Том 1

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Стр. 186 - MILTON. CHAPTER I AMBITION IF fame be the last infirmity of noble minds, ambition is often the first; though, when properly directed, it may be no feeble aid to virtue. Had not my youthful mind, says Cicero, "from many precepts, from many writings, drunk in this truth, that glory and virtue ought to be the darling, nay, the only wish in life; that, to attain these, the torments of the flesh, with the perils of death and exile, are to be despised; never had I exposed my person in so many encounters,...
Стр. 190 - Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my admiration, to all the means which I can employ in his defence? For we are instructed by all the greatest and most learned of mankind, that education, precepts, and practice, can in every other branch of learning produce excellence. But a poet is formed by the hand of nature ; he is aroused by mental vigor, and inspired by what we may call the spirit of divinity itself.
Стр. 285 - Supposing therefore you should have a general, who may appear capable of defeating the forces of these two powerful kings in a pitched battle: yet unless he is also one that can restrain his hands, eyes, and thoughts from the riches of our allies, from their wives and children, from the ornaments of their cities and temples, and from the gold and treasures of their palaces, he is by no means fit to command in an Asiatic and a regal war.
Стр. xviii - it is living Manners alone that can communicate the Spirit of an Original' and so urged the translator to make 'it his Business to be as conversant as he cou'd in that Study and Manner which comes the nearest to what we may suppose his Author, were he now to live, wou'd pursue, and in which he wou'd shine.'9 Hence, Guthrie cast his Cicero as a member of Parliament, 'where...
Стр. x - And though the Judge is borne down by his power, yet he feels not that he is forced along, but that he follows with pleasure." The jury has a larger, more varied and interesting field of investigation than the Court. All the complicated affairs of life come within its province. It may be that the newspaper and periodical press has impaired the influence and excellence of oratory elsewhere, carrying to the people...
Стр. 316 - For in nothing does mankind approach so near to the gods as in giving safety to men. In your fortune there is nothing more exalted than that you have the power, in your nature there is nothing more amiable than that you have the inclination, to preserve numbers.
Стр. 200 - ... in so many toils and dangers, think so meanly as to imagine that, after a life of uninterrupted care and trouble, nothing shall remain of us after death ? If many of the greatest men have been careful to leave their statues and pictures, — these representations not of their minds but of their bodies; ought not we to be much more desirous of leaving the portraits of our enterprises and virtues drawn and finished by the most eminent artists?
Стр. 77 - I plainly perceive that the pcrfon, who is pretended to have informed him of Cyrus's death, only informed him of Milo's approach. For why inform him of the death of Cyrus, whom Clodius, when he went from Rome, left expiring ? I was with him, and fealed op his will along with Clodius; for he had publicly made his will, and appointed Clodius and me his heirs. Was a meflenger...
Стр. 198 - ... is impossible for us to conceal ? Why should we not be proud of confessing candidly that we all aspire to fame? The love of praise influences all mankind, and the greatest minds are the most susceptible of it. The philosophers who most preach up a contempt for fame, prefix their names to their works : and the very performances in which they deny ostentation, are evident proofs of their vanity and love of praise. Virtue requires no other reward for all the toils and dangers to which she exposes...
Стр. x - Cicero does not fertilise his genius by making a collection of the water that falls in raiii from the clouds, but formed by the kind indulgence of Providence, he pours along in a resistless flood, that eloquence may make an experiment of all her powers in his person. Wisdom of Solomon xvii. 11. Wickedness, being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things. Sen., Ep., 40. Mala conscientia etiam in solitudine noxia atque solicita est.

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