 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 pages
...without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a vain sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 pages
...without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a mere sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1852 - 584 pages
...pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, howaver ea?y, hail not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others,... | |
 | Eli Noyes - 1853 - 386 pages
...dying without pain or ignomy, supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 pages
...pain, and without ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a mere sophist. 4. He + invented, it is said, the theory of moral science.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 288 pages
...without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a mere sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...and without ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a mere sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of moral science... | |
 | Edward A. Rice - 1853 - 326 pages
...ignominy, easily supported to the last his* character; and if this easy death had not cast a lustre upon his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his genius, was any thing but a sophist. (Here the Frenchman is characteristically extravagant.) It may... | |
 | Louisa Payson Hopkins - 1854 - 236 pages
...without pain, without disgrace, easily sustains his part to tie last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a vain sophist. . . . The death of Socrates, peaceably philosophizing... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 pages
...without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a mere sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others,... | |
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What pre-possession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them ? Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his... 
