 | Archibald Bower - 1732 - 642 pages
...Philofopher ufed to thank God for three things, viz. That he tiad made him a reafanalale Crea•ture, and not a 'Brute: A Man, and not a Woman : A Greek, and not a Barbarian. Next to him, are, Solon, who hath bjen already fpo'ke of; Chiton* the Lacedemonian ; Pittacust King... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1734 - 422 pages
...ufed to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reafonable creature, and not a beaft ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian. Upon his mother's prefling him to marry, when he was young, he told her, it was then too foon-, and... | |
 | Alexander MacBean - 1773 - 642 pages
...who thanked God for three things ; viz. that he was born of tlie human, not of the brute fpecies ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a barbarian, Diogenes Laertius'; he is the firlt who applied himfelf to the ihuly of nature: of Anaximander, fcholar... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 636 pages
...enemies." He thanked God for three things; that he was born of the human, no' of the brute fpecies ; a man, and not a woman; a Greek, and not a barbarian. None of the ancient philofophers ever applied thcmlelves more eurneilly to the lludy of aitrononiy... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1820 - 386 pages
...used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian. Upon his mother's pressing him to marry when he was young, he told her, it was then too soon ; and... | |
 | 1832 - 280 pages
...used to thank the gods for three things; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman; a Greek, and not a barbarian. One evening he was looking so attentively at the stars as he walked along, that he did not mind what... | |
 | William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - 1839 - 438 pages
...FASTIDIOUSNESS. FOR pretty much the same reasons that the Greclan sage thanked the gods that he was a man and not a woman, a Greek, and not a barbarian, I thank them that I was born with a catholic, and not with a fastidious taste. About the most unfortunate... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1841 - 362 pages
...used to thank the gods for three things : that he was born a -easonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian. Upon his mother's pressing him to marry when he was young, he told her, it was then too soon ; and... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 146 pages
...a narrow patriotism. " Thus Plato daily thanks the gods that he was born a freeman and not a slave, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. 1st. He thanks the gods that he was born free. This is a confession that he regards slaves as very... | |
 | Guillaume Depping - 1870 - 360 pages
...of antiquity felicitated himself, who thanked the gods every day that he was a man and not a beast, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. It was Zuccaro's happiness, first, that he had served the Emperor Maximilian, "who, marrying his daughter... | |
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He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian. 
