 | Guillaume Depping - 1870 - 360 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 936 Seiten
...gods daily for four things — that he was born a free man and not a slave, a wise man and not a fool, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. Tiiis Pharisaical prejudice exists still very deeply implanted in the English mind, though a little... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1881 - 1308 Seiten
...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. Upon his mother's pressing him to marry when be was young, he told her, it was then too soon; and after... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1883 - 520 Seiten
...better, according to Lactantius (i. 3, 19), Plato thanked Nature that he had been born a human being and not a brute, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. Now in Isaac Euchel's " Prayers of the Jews," from the Hebrew, second edition, 1799, p. 7, there is... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1883 - 520 Seiten
...better, according to Lactantius (i. 3, 19), Plato thanked Nature that he had been born a human being and not a brute, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. Now in Isaac Euchel's " Prayers of the Jews," from the 'Hebrew, second edition, 1799, p. 7, there is... | |
 | 1914 - 960 Seiten
...have expressed his gratitude for three things, that he was a man and not one of the lower animals, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian (Plutarch, Life of Marius, Diogenes Laertius, I. i. 7). Similarly, Darmesteter has shown that the Persians... | |
 | Israel Abrahams - 1922 - 298 Seiten
...have expressed his gratitude for three things, that he was a man and not one of the lower animals, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian (Plutarch, Life of Marius, Diogenes Laertius, ti 7). Similarly, Darmesteter has shown that the Persians... | |
 | S©ıren Kierkegaard - 1923 - 252 Seiten
...and not a woman. <»«Cf. note p. 60. "They are, that he had been created a man and not an animal, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a Barbarian (Lactantius, Instit. Ill, 19, 17). S5Thales of Miletos (Diogenes Laertios I, 33). To be a woman is... | |
 | Frederick Fyvie Bruce - 1982 - 342 Seiten
...three things for which he was grateful to fortune: that he was born a human being and not a beast, a man and not a woman. a Greek and not a barbarian iDiog. Laert.. Vh. Phil. 1 .331. Substantially the same saying is attributed to Socrates iDiog. Laert..... | |
 | Tamsyn Barton - 1994 - 284 Seiten
...considered here, all based on commonplaces: "Three things are lucky: to be born a man and not a beast, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian," say the old sages." 1 Accordingly, within physiognomics we have three methods of comparison.1 12 Fraenkel... | |
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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. 
