Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions, and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions |
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Page 87 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 150 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 241 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.