 Tractates are here, together with the Consolation of Philosophy, to speak for themselves. Boethius was the last of the Roman philosophers, and the first of the scholastic theologians. The present volume serves to prove the truth of both these assertions....  Sammlung - Page xby Boethius - 1918 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Schaff - 1885 - 826 pages
...and Hebrew (by Ben Banshet). Gibbon admires it all the more for its ignoring Christianity, and calls it "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the... | |
 | Albert Walkley - 1897 - 180 pages
...The Consolations of Philosophy." The thought is that happiness is found in God alone. Gibbon calls it " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully " (Cicero). Now these translations were not mere literal renderings. Alfred says he translated... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1900 - 408 pages
...mediaeval stage, and the strange plays called Moralities were to enjoy a lasting popularity '";* and Gibbon called it " a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the... | |
 | Boethius, Edward Kennard Rand - 1918 - 460 pages
...He wrote a double commentary on the ^, and commentaries on the Categories and the De Interprctateme of Aristotle, and on the Topica of Cicero. He also...from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Rather it is the supreme essay of one who throughout his life had found his highest solace in the dry light of reason.... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1918 - 442 pages
...More in the Tower of London, as it had consoled its author in his confinement in the Tower of Pavia. Gibbon called it a ' golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato ', and described Boethius in stately words as ' the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have... | |
 | 1926 - 1020 pages
...both of St Edmund's College, Ware, have combined to produce a noble edition of what Gibbon called ' a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or of Tully '. The Ausftattung is all that the eye can wish, and reflects infinite credit on the publishers and... | |
 | Michael von Albrecht - 1997 - 976 pages
...Bible, there existed already 43 printed editions of the Consolatio. Edward Gibbon (d. 1 794) would call it 'a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully'. Among Boethius' imitators, translators, and commentators we find distinguished names: King... | |
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