FOURTH EDITION : BY HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, M.A. THE FRIEND: A SERIES OF ESSAYS To aid in the Formation of fixed Principles in Politics, Now for the writing of this werke, GOWER, Pro. to the Confeff. Amantis. Παρὰ Σέξτου τως, THE FRIEND. INTRODUCTION. -τὴν ἔννοιαν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν, καὶ τὸ σεμνὸν ἀπλάσ-ὥςε κολακείας μὲν πάσης προσηνεςέραν εἶναι τὴν ὁμιλίαν αὐτοῦ, αἰδεσιμώτατον δὲ παρ ̓ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν εἶναι· καὶ ἅμα μὲν ἀπαθέςατον εἶναι, ἅμα δὲ φιλοςοργότατον· καὶ τὸ ἰδεῖν ἄνθρωπον σαφῶς ἐλάχισον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καλῶν ἡγούμενον τὴν αὑτοῦ πολυμαθίην. M. ANTONINUS.* From Sextus, and from the contemplation of his character, I learned what it was to live a life in harmony with nature; and that seemlinefs and dignity of deportment, which infured the profound eft reverence at the very fame time that his company was more winning than all the flattery in the world. To him I owe likewife that I have known a man at once the most dispassionate, and the most affectionate, and who of all his attractions fet the leaft value on the multiplicity of his literary acquifitions. you TO THE EDITOR OF THE FRIEND. SIR, you HOPE will not ascribe to prefumption the liberty I take in addreffing you on the fubject of your work. I feel deeply interested in the cause have undertaken to fupport; and my object in L. I. 9. But the paffage is made up from, rather than found in, Antoninus.-Ed. |