Cambridge until modern times. His five theological 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... Sammlung - Page xby Boethius, Edward Kennard Rand - 1918 - 419 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 - 1918 - 450 pages
...a double commentary on the Eio-aywyTj, and commentaries on the Categories and the De Interpretation of Aristotle, and on the Topica of Cicero. He also...from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Rather it is ^he sjipreme essay of one who tlirnii nrlimit. his life had found~his highest gnJacp in tlif rli-y... | |
| 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... | |
| Boethius - 1926 - 446 pages
...wrote a double commentary on the ij, and commentaries on the Catégorie» and the De Interpretation of Aristotle, and on the Topica of Cicero. He also...writer, is to misunderstand his mind and his method. The Consolado is not, as has been maintained, a mere patchwork of translations from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists.... | |
| 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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