| 单词 | sophist |
| 例句 | Rather than teach a series of tricks and tips for momentary success in speaking, as any catchpenny sophist might, Aristotle sought to form a coherent view of why those tips and tricks worked. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Gorgias and the other sophists taught and worked haphazardly, but there would come a greater man. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Probably? You sound like a sophist, boy. Hasn’t it always fallen before?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Your argument doesn’t hold water at all, you sophist,” Miss Adebayo said, and dismissively downed what was in her glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He did not know what sophist meant, but he did not like that she called Master that. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He often fought the urge to raise his own voice from behind the kitchen door and tell her to shut up, especially when she called Master a sophist. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sophists—of whom Gorgias was one of the first examples—were essentially just private tutors who trained Athenian aristocrats in philosophy and rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But above all, you would not expect to see programs on an American news channel, if not taking the side of the Russian aggressor, at least giving a platform to its excusers and sophists. Ukraine on TV: We’ve Seen This Before. And We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z He was ultimately a sophist, who liked to convince himself of the rightness of views that were indefensible. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z How does he listen to this sophist and then earnestly ask if he can, “with right and conscience,” make a claim to the French throne? | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z In debates about climate change, sophists like to observe that the Earth’s climate has changed wildly in the past, the implication being that climate change is perfectly natural. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Musk and DeSantis praised each other for their dedication to free speech, and Sacks brought on several right-wing sophists to add their voices. Column: Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk give us a preview of the chaos of a DeSantis presidency 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Thus, the sophists were in the business of educating Greeks to be more successful, especially in the law courts and the public assemblies. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z While many ambitious men sought the services of sophists, others worried that speakers thus trained could lead the people to act against their own self-interest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Kellyanne Conway, who carried Trump's 2016 campaign over the finish line before assuming a role as the administration's most facile TV sophist, would bring a range of experience and insight in national politics. Kellyanne Conway is being paid $15,000 a month by the GOP following her White House exit: filings 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Like Socrates exposing the sophists of Athens, Kierkegaard “sought to expose” false teachers of grand schemes, the “pseudo-philosophers.” Review | The philosopher who rebelled on matters of the soul 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z While I don’t disagree that Barr’s testimony employed the most tortured form of hairsplitting, sophist false logic, maligning the Jesuits as exemplars of this form of argumentation is itself, ironically, a sophist trope. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A picture-perfect example of ‘gender discrimination’ in the media 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The Greek sophists were learned men who made clever arguments that were, in fact, false. Opinion | We need a philosopher president. Does such a candidate exist? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Many thought Socrates was one of the sophists. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The sophists of Athens’ golden age were at it hundreds of years before Julius Caesar brought his populist touch to the Roman republic. How to spot a populist 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z And while lawyers — I love you, you sophists! — are full of entertaining zingers, those zingers are expensive. After the SEC settlement, who will review Elon Musk’s tweets? 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Whether a sophist like Milo Yiannopoulos may speak at a public university like Berkeley is less a question of what the law is than of what the law should be. How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Not even the most shameless sophist will argue that anything like that happened. Opinion | The lawless obstructionism of Beltway elites 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z A stonecutter by trade, Socrates publicly questioned sophists and politicians about good and evil, right and wrong. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And still GOP leaders hide behind broad and bland references to “victims and their families,” apparently a sophist euphemism for queer. Republicans, Start Saying 'Gay' When You Talk About Orlando 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z In fifth-century Athens, some of the itinerant travellers known as “sophists” attacked belief in the divine. Modern Atheism Isn't Actually All That New 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Chait is a skilled writer, and an even more skilled sophist. Safe spaces aren’t about you: Why the anti-P.C. crusaders completely miss the point 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z “That carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of sophists,” they said. Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law, 5-4, in Victory for Obama 2012-06-29T21:32:09Z But it is now generally agreed that the real author was a sophist of the 3rd century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He had become famous as a sophist and rhetorician, skilled in the laborious frivolities of the profession. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z History proves she has been ineradicably selfish; hence her success, a sophist may say, but there is something higher than self-aggrandizement, the success of giving her strength to reforming the abuses she proclaims. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z He forms the connecting link between the first great sophists, Protagoras and Prodicus, and the innumerable eristics who brought their name into disrepute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Sceptical in all matters, though never the fascinating sophist that is Anatole France, De Gourmont criticised the thirty-six dramatic situations, reducing the number to four. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The wandering sophist and rhetorician would find a hearing no less than the musical artist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In place of the firmness derived from hope and resignation, these unhappy sophists seek courage in desperation, and consolation in notoriety. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Let us leave them to reign, eat, drink, and be feasted, as priests and sophists of old have before them, so long as they do not deprave men! What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z The remarkable contrast between the high wages of the Athenian sophists and the low wages of modern abbés, Adam Smith accounts for principally by the many scholarships of modern times. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Notwithstanding the persuasive rhetoric of that silken sophist Henri Bergson, a belated visionary metaphysician in a world of realities, the trend of latter-day thought is toward the veritable victories of science. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But, slighting sophists and their flimsy aid, To God and Reason left the works they made. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Five years have I been at these studies, and scanned All the books on the subject that sophists have planned! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Thus it seemed to the sophists, to the scholiasts, alchemists, cabalists, Talmudists, and to our own scientific science and to our artistic art. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z The sophist Favorinus was more politic; when reproached for yielding too readily to the emperor in some grammatical discussion, he replied that it was unwise to contradict the master of thirty legions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z This decadence was easily favorable to the reign of the sophists, the encyclopaedists and other open or secret enemies of religion. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The nearest approach to any formulation is to be found in an applied logic set forth in the precepts and rules of the rhetoricians and sophists. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z These sophists breed confusion, anarchy, Duty neglected at the cost of peace; They stir up murders, thefts, impieties, And glut with blood the shambles of the state. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z I believe that it comes down to us from the Greek sophist philosophy and errs as does the latter through the overvaluation of dialectics. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Philosophers and sophists assembled to talk and to lecture in the gymnasia, which thus became places of general resort for the purpose of all less systematic intellectual pursuits, as well as for physical exercises. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Among the anti-Christian sophists who made the Palace of Berlin their rendezvous was a school of Freemasons who had already begun to celebrate the final downfall of the Papacy. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Admiring, as he could not but admire, the charm and power of Newman's style, he considered Newman himself to be a "sophist, the manipulator, and not the servant, of truth." Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Aladdin's lamp was quick to reveal the sophist; moreover, it had its own answer ready. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Also the labors of sophists, philosophers, metaphysicians, political men, working in mistaken directions, who do nothing to advance science, and produce nothing but disturbance and sterile discussions; the verbiage of advocates, pleaders, witnesses, &c. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z Formerly I used to howl with the sophist jackals, and now out of the same mouth I utter Krishna's name! Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z All the efforts of anguished sophists to prove their thesis of the Freedom of the Will from data supplied by introspection have failed miserably. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Its composition is usually ascribed to a certain Longus, a Greek sophist, who flourished about the beginning of the fifth century. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z You are a better sophist than I ever gave you credit for being. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z I speak to thee, the sophist, the talker-down Of scorn by scorn, the sinner against gods, The reverencer of men, the thief of fire,— I speak to thee and adjure thee! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z The objection is therefore nothing more or less than the very ancient and famous logical fallacy with which the Greek sophists used to nonplus their antagonists. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Antiphon, the sophist, says: "The law, the outcome of an agreement, coerces nature, the result of growth, and goes against the interest of the individual." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He also compiled a valuable catalogue of the MSS. in the Leiden library, wrote a history of the Greek sophists, and translated various German works into Dutch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Iren�us does not forget to denounce these heretics as blasphemers and shameless sophists who speak not a word of sense. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z This was the way in which the sophist of Thessalia argued, from whence came the term, a Sicilian proverb, and Athenæus is, perhaps, playing on the proverb. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He must at any rate have been surprised at meeting a specious sophist in the wilderness. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z Both, therefore, have an equal hatred of sects and parties; Bacon of sophists and dogmatic philosophers, Shakespeare of Puritans and zealots. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z The sophists using the Socratic irony are pronounced happy because of the mass and volume of their words; others play upon words. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z No poet was too imaginative, no sophist was too obscure, to be allowed to rest in the graves of their oblivion. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z So when the mighty sophist of Rome had enunciated these precepts of Aristarchus, Cynulcus said—O Ceres, what a wise man! The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The Socrates grafted upon Plato, who never let a sophist have his talk out, was therefore one himself. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z He adduces, also, many instances of phrases unusual among the classics, and of conceits which betray the rhetorician or sophist. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z His writings were read and appreciated by old or young, grave or gay, sage or sophist, prince or peasant. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z But the disciple of the sophists did not leave these romances where he found them. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And having married a very beautiful girl, after that he betook himself to the profession of a sophist, hunting out for boys to come to his school. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In his native city he studied under his relative the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Proaeresius the rhetorician. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Erasmus seems to have been the first who suspected the whole to be the declamatory composition of some rhetorician or sophist. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z These impudent sophists, it seems, have had no other ground than simply that of making money! The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The historian Herodotus, who was no sophist but loved a good story, tells how the Persian king, Darius, called some Greeks and some Indian tribesmen together into his presence. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And having pursued his profession of sophist at Messene and at Larissa in Thessaly, and having amassed a considerable fortune, he returned to Athens. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z East Roman emperor, was born in Athens, the daughter of the sophist Leontius, from whom she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The Athenians also, as soon as the sophists reformed education, began to rate intellectual wrestling as far superior to any bodily exercise. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Hence the epithets of itinerant, mountebank, conjurer, cheat, sophist, sorcerer, heaped upon the teachers of Christianity; sometimes to account for the report or apparent truth of their miracles, sometimes to explain their success. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z The greatness of these philosophers or sophists of the fifth century does not, of course, lie in the correctness of their scientific results. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z And he, getting out of temper, said,—Whence do you get this word ἐδέσματα? for one has no breathing time allowed one while constantly forced to ask these questions of these late-learned sophists. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Is not the folly of the sophists here shown in its true colors? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z That was spoken like Daniel Webster, the able jurist, and just man, and not like the Daniel Webster, whom I have before quoted, in these pages, as the casuist, and the sophist. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z And sophist rhyming which would lead You headlong into sing-song speed 'Tis well for you to hold in check. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z But, to see what the sophists were like, let us consider two of them who are recorded as having specially been the teachers of Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z After the manner of the sophists of the period, Bion travelled through Greece and Macedonia, and was admitted to the literary circle at the court of Antigonus Gonatas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z "Every traitor is a sophist, sir; I have neither skill nor temper for such discussions," I answered, proving my latter position sufficiently. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z What monstrous sophists we are, when interest prompts us? Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z ASTERIUS, of Cappadocia, sophist and teacher of rhetoric in Galatia, was converted to Christianity about the year 300, and became the disciple of Lucian, the founder of the school of Antioch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" But next to religion itself, the sphere of sexual conduct has always been the great field for irrational taboos and savage punishments, and the sophists naturally marked it as a battle-field. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The sophist and the philosopher were in fact too often undistinguishable, and the philosophic class-room often resounded with new-fangled expressions of admiration. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Incipient convictions had paled in the absence of the sophist or the sage—I knew not which. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z He is the only extant example in Latin literature of an accomplished sophist in the good sense of the term. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" About 60 B.C., the sophist and poet, Meleager of Gadara, undertook to combine the choicest effusions of his predecessors into a single body of fugitive poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" He had been the friend of the sophists; he had denied the gods; worse, he had denounced the doings of the gods as evil. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z He disapproves of the habit, which prevailed in the sophist’s lecture theatre, of proposing subtle or frivolous questions to the lecturer in order to make a display of cleverness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His Highness condescended to laugh and call me a paradoxical sophist. The Children of the World He lectured on philosophy and rhetoric, like the Greek sophists, apparently with success, since statues were erected in his honour at Carthage and elsewhere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" APHTHONIUS, of Antioch, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the second half of the 4th century A.D., or even later. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Very likely just because the City, corrupted by the "charm of words," had allowed such wicked sophists to live? Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z With a naturally feeble constitution and epileptic tendencies, the excitement of the sophist’s life brought on an illness which lasted thirteen years. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The triumphant gold sophist says, “The ten gold dollars fused into a lump will still be worth just ten dollars, while the silver dollars fused into a lump will be worth only five dollars.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 It is also composed with a well-marked literary aim, defined by Kretzschmann as the emulation of the Greek sophists, and the transplantation of their tours de force into the Latin language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" This word comes from the Greek "sophistes," meaning a sophist, that is to say, one who makes a pretence of being wise. Stories from Tagore But the actual rustics and workmen who voted for Pericles had been only touched on the surface by the "wisdom" of the sophists. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z It was also the age of the new sophist. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "Oh, if your divine Majesty thinks it improbable, I fully admit that it is so," the supple sophist eagerly replied. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs That they were not sophists in this matter will be sufficiently demonstrated by the remaining events of this chapter. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. All the later Greeks23 follow his statement and concur in enumerating seven Indian castes—sophists, agriculturists, herdsmen, artisans, warriors, inspectors, councillors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" We hear of Protagoras in his old age from that enemy of the sophists, Plato. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The sophist and the lecturing philosopher were theoretically distinct. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Shall I mend up the mutilated verses of old poets? or tinker together the fragments of some forgotten sophist? or pile up some other learned dung-heap? Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Mr. Paine said he knew no other influence than corruption; that his talents were those of a sophist, and that he understood the subtleties of nature, not its elegance. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence CALLISTRATUS, Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" But for this sophist even Plato's satire is kindly and almost reverent. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Nowhere did the wandering sophist find more eager audiences, and no part of the Roman world in that age contributed so great a number of teachers, physicians, and philosophers. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The Panoptae was a satire on the sophists and omniscient speculative philosophers of the day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Reference is here had to the Athenian sophists, whose art it was "to make the worse appear the better reason." Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Once seeing Euclid devoting great pains to captious arguments, he said, "O Euclid, you will be able to manage sophists—but men, never!" Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Yet the line is repeatedly cited as showing the dreadful doctrines of Euripides and the sophists; doctrines that would justify any perjury! Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z But the prince of public benefactors in the Antonine age was the great sophist Herodes Atticus, the tutor of M. Aurelius, who died in the same year as his pupil, 180 A.D. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Desire, despised at first by pride, as brutal and coarse, turns sophist, and puts before him the terrible problem at which love, mingled with dread, flinches, and turns away his sight. Priests, Women, and Families Socrates44 speaks of a sophist of Constantinople, called Ecebolus, who conformed with a marvellous facility to all the changes of fortune which Christianity was undergoing. A Treatise on Relics "You are a tolerable sophist," said the Baron. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels The difference of atmosphere between the sophists of the Periclean circle and the ordinary backward Attic farmer must have been visible to every observer. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Her sophists were now seen haranguing crowds in every town from the Don to the Atlantic. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The sophist appeals to experience, to observed facts: the sequence which he alleges has been observed. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This outlook is still vague and vacillating, and it may perhaps compel epistemology to return on its old path from the sophists to Plato, from Hume to Kant. Naturalism And Religion "If it is the true love, it cannot," replied the Count; "but in this we too easily deceive ourselves; for if our passions were not sophists, they would in fact not be passions." The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels That any one differing from me is an ignorant, a sophist, or a more enlightened individual than I; it is not for me to decide. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America He may sometimes have been a very little of a sophist—it is perhaps impossible to be a great philosopher without some such touch. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Time may produce a sophist cunning enough to devise an adequate defence or apology for such legislation. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 He did not, as does the sophist, attempt “to make the worse appear the better reason.” Studies in Contemporary Biography Now, to those who say this we must ask the question with which Socrates of old pursued the sophist: What is beauty? The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings An ignorant is but an ignorant; but, a sophist is an immoral man. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America As to any examination of its intellectual basis, they were not sophists, but soldiers, blindly following the prescribed institutions of their country with as little question as its military commands. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Tell us, ye hair-splitting sophists, the exact quantum of knowledge which is necessary to constitute a freeman. Thoughts on African Colonization A familiar instance presents itself in the titles of tyrant, parasite, and sophist, originally honourable distinctions. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 This has all the levity of a sophist’s language! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors In the loose sense of the sophist, it was contrary to my experience that Britain should become the seat of any such fatal and widely-devastating disease as used to ravage it of old. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Am I to do the part of a heathen priest or infidel sophist? Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Our age is one of restless and unintelligent iconoclasm, and abounds with shrewd sophists who use the name "Americanism" to cover attacks on that institution itself. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Jeffries was a profligate sophist, but his talents were as great as his vices. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors While he cast aside the nature studies of the early philosophy and repudiated the pseudo-wisdom of the sophists, he was not without his own interpretation of nature. History of Human Society I am weary of disbelieving: why should I wound my love To pleasure a sophist's pride in a graven image of truth? Collected Poems Volume One Grote on Greek mythology, 5; on sophists, 42; on state of Greece in fifth century B.C. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion He saw among mankind only sophists and philosophers, where we see predatory egoists and their starved and stunted victims. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Thus he exults in the true tone, and with all the levity of a sophist. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Let the moralists battle it out with the sophists: it did her a world of good. Love and Lucy Socrates inveighed against its use by the sophists, and educators since have repeated the attack. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Aurelius, the sophist, composed his best declamations in his cups. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness History for them was a continuous Socratic dialogue, in which the philosophers of innovation were always arrayed against the sophists of authority. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He was so fierce an advocate for some important causes he undertook, that his sincerity has been liable to suspicion; the pleader, in some points, certainly acting the part of a sophist. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors If thou continuest to take delight in idle ——, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to live with men. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions "But," continues the witty sophist, "a horse, surely, has but four legs; did you ever see a horse with five legs?" Practical Education, Volume I The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each moldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 "Primrose, I fear thou wilt be a sophist before thy hundred years are ended," said her brother with a soft pinch of her rosy cheek. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia This commentary on the “Essay on Man,” then, looks much like the work of a sophist and an adventurer! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors A favorite trick of the sophist is quietly to assume as true what would at once be challenged if expressly stated. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions If he were a very subtle sophist himself, he was himself one on whom no sophistry could impose. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 The sophists have transgressed in a masterly manner as regards this verse. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The sophists could not help seeing that the whole public worship and the ideas associated with it belonged to the former—to the domain of “the law.” Atheism in Pagan Antiquity He went over the entire field of moral subtleties, and proved himself an excellent sophist. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life The sophists wrangle here concerning an election that takes place according to the purpose of God. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Like the sophists of Rome and Alexandria at that time, the most celebrated teachers in the academies of Babylonia and Palestine for centuries gave themselves up to casuistry. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The false reasoning of the sophists will not stand when they maliciously deduct from this text the theory that the Christian faith is not effectual to blot out sin and to justify. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The criticism of the sophists was directed against the entire tradition on which Greek society was based, and principally against the moral conceptions which hitherto had been unquestioned: good and evil, right and wrong. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity At last there came into the hall four sophists, whose cloaks proclaimed them to be of a different class from my late tyrants. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. These words are wrongly understood by the Jews and sophists 151. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Yet by seeking amid such simples a balm for wounded pride, I did not really deceive myself, but lived as a sophist rather than a philosopher. Apologia Diffidentis Even the sophists have not attributed justification to love, nor is this possible, for love is an effect, or fruit, of the Spirit, who is received through faith. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost From a purely practical point of view also, the criticism of the sophists was far more dangerous than that of the old philosophers. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Socrates judgment on the payment of the sophists. Principles Of Political Economy First, the criminal who slays; then the sophist who defends the slayer. Lectures on the French Revolution Sophists can always debate about their degree; but even sophists cannot debate about their direction. What I Saw in America Before we proceed to mention the sophists, there is one person on our list who must be examined though the result will be negative, namely, Diagoras of Melos. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The sophists are no enemies of his; I hear, Gorgias, their chief, speaks nobly of him, As of his gifted master, and once friend. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold The sophist’s rope of cobweb he shall twine; Mope o’er the schoolman’s peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life, in Mammon’s dirty mine; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems All the great sophists—Protagoras especially, with his "man the measure of all things"—were, in a sense, professional teachers of a refined scepticism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations “A single Athenian sophist,” they said, “with no force but his tongue and reputation, has achieved the conquest of Syracuse.” Ancient States and Empires First, not all the sophists—hardly even the majority of them—drew the logical conclusions from their views in respect of either morals or religion. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Though the creeds and realms are reeling, though the sophists roar, Though we weep and pawn our watches, Two and Two are Four. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study He excoriates them as "desperate sophists, who maliciously interpret the holy Gospel according to their dreams," and as "coarse, sluggish, inexperienced theologians." Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church But what is the sophist going to do with this: 'It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.' The Chautauqua Girls At Home But, in addition, even sophists who personally took an attitude radically contradictory to popular belief had the most important reasons for being careful in advancing such a view. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Demosthenes, showing for the nonce some wit, ridiculed these traits, the first as that of a sophist, the second as that of a woman, the third as that of a sponge. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History But the reward I offer you is not that which the sophist Protagoras stipulated to receive and never got, but that which the wise Thales got without ever stipulating for it. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Many bishops are inclined to peace and despise the sophists, Eck and Faber. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church “It sounds like one of the sophists—‘to make the worse appear the better reason.’ Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Protagoras is the only one of the sophists of whom tradition says that he was the object of persecution owing to his religious views. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Oh! if Christians possessed the Holy Scriptures in their own tongue, they could of themselves withstand these sophists. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Protagoras was a sophist with knowledge on an extraordinary number of subjects, and one of the most eloquent among the first inventors of the art of rhetoric. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura By Bacon's method we are to construct in time the 'noble science of politics,' which is equally removed from the barren theories of Utilitarian sophists and the petty craft of intriguing jobbers. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Hence the epithets of itinerant, mountebank, conjurer, cheat, sophist, and sorcerer, heaped upon the teachers of Christianity; sometimes to account for the report or apparent truth of their miracles, sometimes to explain their success. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The trial of Socrates, however, really belongs to the same category when looked at from the accusers' point of view; Socrates was accused as a sophist. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Here the sophists and philosophers argued and lectured, and Socrates walked like a king at the head of the aristocracy of thought. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Hippias was one of the sophists, and surpassed all his fellows in the variety of his accomplishments, while as an orator he was second to none. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Mill regarded Mackintosh as a sophist, whose aim was to mislead honest Utilitarians into the paths of orthodoxy, and who also ignored the merits of Mill himself. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is pretended by certain sophists and visionary theorists, that the right does not exist to enslave the barbarian; that to assert such right is fatal to the principle of human equality. The Right of American Slavery But as his own attitude towards popular religion differed essentially from that of the sophists, we cannot consider him in this connexion. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity I am not a sophist, and I can't put into words what is in my mind. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War It may develop into an aggressive egoism of the type represented by the sophist Thrasymachus, in his proclamation that "might is right, justice the interest of the stronger." The Approach to Philosophy For you, my beauty, we will have you consoled by a warmer lover than that most shallow-pated fool and sophist, Arvina. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 De Quincey was a sophist, a rhetorician, a brilliant talker. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The reasoning is not sophistic; on the contrary, in their attacks the sophists took up a position outside the foundation of popular belief and attacked the foundation itself. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity For a man is not rendered agreeable to God by ruling himself according to the prejudices of men and the vain declamations of the sophists. A Source Book for Ancient Church History The scepticism of the sophists, who were the knowing men of this age, was not so much conviction as indisposition. The Approach to Philosophy Will you only commend persuasiveness in a sophist who engages to make the worst argument appear the better, and condemn it in a teacher who employs it to enforce truth?' From a Cornish Window A New Edition "There exists a certain class of mind," he commences, "allied perhaps to the Greek sophist variety, to which ignorance of a subject offers no sufficient obstacle to the composition of a treatise upon it." Science and Morals and Other Essays Even in the verses with which the chorus conclude the play it is insisted that the worst crime of the sophists is their insult to the gods. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity For when thou hast strengthened wisdom with a breastwork by philosophy, and with expenditure, thou wilt preserve her unassailable by sophists. A Source Book for Ancient Church History The sophists were the intellectual men of an age of humanism, individualism, and secularism. The Approach to Philosophy There was in him a sophist and a theologian, or, if you choose, a Greek and a Chaldean.’ Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre They looked to matters of more importance than the squabbles of sophists; they laboured to advance the prosperity of their people, and they succeeded. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II The inference to be drawn from all this is simply that the popular Athenian opinion—for we may rest assured that this and the view of Aristophanes are identical—was that the sophists were atheists. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Moreover, their law-giver persuaded them that they were all brethren, and that when once they come out and reject the Greek gods, they should then worship that crucified sophist and live according to his laws. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Their public, though it loved to abuse them, was the greatest sophist of them all—brilliant and capricious, incomparably rich in all but wisdom. The Approach to Philosophy To the sophist an island is an island, a river a river, a height a height, everywhere. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 In the modern haze of doubt and amid the denial of all necessary things, there have been found plenty of sophists, even in America, to dispute these great truisms. A History of the United States The Socratic schools at the same time took over the actual programme of the sophists, namely, the education of adolescence in the highest culture. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Therefore he removed him from the great city to Nicomedia, forbidding him at the same time to frequent the school of Libanius the Syrian sophist. A Source Book for Ancient Church History If we do so we are like the sophists—blind to our own ignorance. The Approach to Philosophy But rhetorical sophists, who expect to hear "Divine, wonderful, grand," at their declamations, are not even welcomed with "Pretty fair, so so." § xiii. Plutarch's Morals He had the eloquence of a sophist; he had the strategy of a tactician; he was endowed with an unconquerable energy, an indomitable determination. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Hence what we may infer from the attack of Aristophanes is merely this, that the general public lumped Socrates together with the sophists and more especially regarded him as a godless fellow. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity No word is respected by sophists, casuists, and quibblers, men who are moved only by a rage for gaining their point, or who assume that their interests are alone worth considering. The Simple Life The sophists, learned in tradition, and skilled in disputation, but for the most part entirely lacking in originality, are the new prophets. The Approach to Philosophy Calm retrospect shows that the Confederacy's commissioners were, from first to last, only played with by the skilled sophists of Europe. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Our youth is plied by the hangers-on of professor this, or sophist that, each of whom wishes the fame or the profit of having a houseful. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American There is, however, an important difference between the standpoints of the sophists and of Aristotle. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity This is no school for the disputations of sophists or philosophers or fanatics. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century In their self-justification certain of the sophists attached themselves to a definite doctrine maintained by those of their predecessors and contemporaries who were atomists, or followers of that same Leucippus whom we have quoted. The Approach to Philosophy Besides—like the rest of us Anstice was a sophist at heart—the kindness with which Sir Richard Wayne had consistently treated him was surely deserving of gratitude at least. Afterwards He gave the sophist Polemo about eight thousand pounds, as the sum is calculated, for three declamations. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American With the Critias fragment we have also brought to an end the inquiry into the direct statements of atheistic tendency which have come down to us from the age of the sophists. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Where does Paul refer to the sophists and rhetoricians? The Life of St. Paul When, then, in the critical epoch of the Greek sophists, Protagoras declares that there is no belief that is not of this character, his philosophy is promptly recognized as scepticism. The Approach to Philosophy There they stand in naked simplicity; mildly contemptuous alike of sophists and theorists. The Lighthouse He was also a good speaker, and, like all good speakers in a wrong cause, was an able sophist. Erling the Bold One sophist, I must allow, is precisely like another: no discrimination of character, none of manner, none of language. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The "battailous" spirit of the West is not to be expected in a Byzantine sophist. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The character and method of Socrates have their best foil in the sophists, but their bearing on the earlier philosophers is for our purposes even more instructive. The Approach to Philosophy And that is true, in a sense, my good sophist. Doom Castle Is this the scene, or were these the men, for the triumphs of the barren rhetorician and the sophist, whose words have no true relation to the facts? The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 They who praise the bliss and worth of ignorance are sophists. Education and the Higher Life In fact, Nearchus himself affirms what Megasthenes said after him, namely that "the laws of the sophists in India were not written." India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge She may become a philosopher, a king, a trader, an athlete, a prophet, a poet, a husbandman, a sophist, a tyrant. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Her example in this respect made such an impression on our saint's master, a celebrated pagan sophist, that he could not forbear crying out, "What wonderful women have the Christians!" The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The plain high-and-dry men distrusted him as what they called a sophist. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 They are the sophists of medieval literature; emancipated, enlightened and intelligent persons, with an apparatus of rhetoric, a set of abstract ideas, a repertory of abstract sentiments, which they could apply to any available subject. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The sophists flourished in the greatest number during the age of Pericles, the Golden Age of pleasure. The Child of Pleasure He attached himself first to a brahmin sophist named Alara, and afterwards to another named Udraka, from whom he learnt all that Indian philosophy had then to teach. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" This eloquent sophist has an influence upon Shaw and his school which it would require a separate book adequately to study. George Bernard Shaw The warrior's-weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words They still wandered around, like the sophists in ancient Greece, bemoaning their hard lot and deploring the coarseness of an unappreciative time. The Age of the Reformation The surging music and tremendous themes of the poet, the sweet persuasion of the sophist were a wonder and delight. Lore of Proserpine There were not even to be found in all their country either sophists, wandering fortune-tellers, keepers of infamous houses, or dealers in gold and silver trinkets, because there was no money. Ideal Commonwealths He is not a paradox-monger; he is a wild logician, far too simple even to be called a sophist. George Bernard Shaw "The first," he said, "was the property of a sophist, the second of a woman, and the third of a sponge; and not one of them could do any credit to a king." Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers A: What poor sophistry from the poor sophists who have taught you. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The poets have their own way of expressing themselves; sophists, too, have their own way. Logic Deductive and Inductive In Cappadocia the heresy found its first great literary champion in the sophist Asterius. The Arian Controversy Are the opinions and practices of the Greek sophists incapable of vindication? Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition As a heathen he exercised the profession of a sophist, and in this capacity travelled far and wide. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" The irritated father had no rest until he had stirred up all the priests and all the sophists against me. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary But woe to the society formed by sophists, in which opinion, benumbed by doubt and indifference, arouses itself only to devote to hatred or to contempt every firm and noble conviction! The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Streams of sophists and monks collect here daily, to inflame the hatred of the emperor against us. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann Socrates and the Philosophers.—Socrates, an old man of Athens, undertook to combat the sophists. History Of Ancient Civilization You spar at one another," Selingman declared, "like a couple of sophists. A People's Man “Man is the measure of all 199things,” said the old Greek sophist, but modern science has taught us another lesson. Ancient Art and Ritual He was no coward or sophist to argue himself out of danger. The Half-Hearted Saint, sage, sophist, moralist, and preacher, have repeated in every possible image, till there is nothing new to say, that life is a bubble, a dream, a delusion, a phantasm. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series You will find in Plato much about reciters, actors, poets, rhetoricians, pleaders, sophists, public orators and refiners of language, but very little indeed about books. On The Art of Reading Is it you who speak," Maxendorf asked grimly, "or is this another man—a sophist living in the shadow of Maraton's fame? A People's Man Faith in human goodness, irrespective of reward and punishment, either here or hereafter, sophists of this bigotted class have literally none. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles But, being a subtle sophist, he sought to maintain a show of consistency by an ingenious evasion. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History They are not new, for twenty-two centuries ago the sophist Thrasymachus in Plato's "Republic" argued—Socrates refuting him—that justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger; might is right. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Then heard I: "If whatever is acquired Below as doctrine were thus understood, No sophist's subtlety would there find place." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment If Pantheists of this reverend gentleman's school are neither sophists nor simpletons, Materialism is neither true nor false. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Well-chosen nurse, his sophist lore, He bade thee many a year explore, He marked thy progress firm though slow, And statesmen, princes, leagued with their inveterate foe. English Satires "Suppose it does," say the two sophists; "is it not better to expose ourselves to the chance of an eventual invasion, than to accept a certain one?" What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader He was a compound of the dandy, the sophist, and the agitator. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 It is poetic and descriptive rather than polemical, though the author constantly expresses his dislike of modern civilisation, and complains with Burke that this is an age of sophists, calculators, and economists. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century It was a long theological struggle in which, after the rejection of many different arguments, the President finally capitulated before a masterpiece of the sophist's art. The Economic Consequences of the Peace Whilst I, or any other poor, puny, private sophist, was defending the Declaration of Pilnitz, his Majesty might refute me by the Treaty of Basle. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) But as I read this it came over me that both Jesus and Lincoln were sophists. Children of the Market Place Plato abhorred a sophist who would work for wages. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future There they stand in naked simplicity: mildly contemptuous alike of sophists and theorists. The Lighthouse Few sentences in history have given so much work to the sophists and the lawyers, as we shall see in the next section of this chapter, as this apparently simple and unambiguous statement. The Economic Consequences of the Peace The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction—he, who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations A clever sophist this you speak of, who is able to compel those who have no wisdom to be rightly wise. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Literature was distracted by new doctrines; rhetoric became a trick in the hands of sophists, and all sound oratory disappeared. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Therefore we'll have no usurping Prætorian, no juggling sophist, no bailiff extravagant and unjust, no spendthrift squandering on idleness that which would pay just debts! Lewis Rand Left behind the sophist, the apologist, the lover of the world with his tinsel that was not gold, his pebbles that were not gems! Audrey It is on my conscience to add, moreover, that I find you a sophist, and your sophistry a little vulgar. A Daughter of To-Day Like the generality of sophists, he took away a received truth, and left nothing to supply its place; he reasoned falsehood into probability, truth into nonentity. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Kaksasas, viz. souls of wizards, witches, and of clever people with evil tendencies, scientists with cruel or harsh tendencies—such as vivisectionists and sophists. The Sorcery Club A man of men was he, the steadfast glances Of whose steel-grey, indomitable eyes So pierced the mind, behind all countenances, Crushed were the sophist's arts, the coward's lies. A Celtic Psaltery When he was in Rhodes, he heard all the sophists and made each a present of a talent. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. Can all the works which saints, or sages, or sophists have ever written, repeople this lonely tower, or can they refit this tenement? English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A calm retreat in the wild, picturesque tracts of Macedonia, might have had some share in reforming this spoiled pupil of the sophists. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Once as I was passing through the market place I heard a sophist from Cilicia say that there is only one God. Miscellanies Time, the corrector when our judgments err, The test of truth, love,—sole philosopher, For all besides are sophists,—from thy shrift That never loses, though it doth defer!— Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Once when a great thunderstorm terrified every one, Anaxarchus the sophist, who was with him, said "Son of Zeus, canst thou do as much?" Plutarch's Lives Volume III. Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? English Grammar in Familiar Lectures If you thought I was going to comfort you with sophist assurances that there's a way out of paying the price for the kind of life you've led, you were just wrong. Through stained glass When the friend asked for his money back again, Perikles prosecuted him, at which proceeding young Xanthippus was enraged and abused his father, sneering at his way of life and his discussions with the sophists. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I For I happened to visit a person who spends more money on the sophists than all others together: I mean Callias, son of Hipponicus. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates Let us hold no parley with these arrogant sophists. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index The talking old woman, the dotard, the garrulous sophist, all venture upon, lacerate, teach, before they have learnt. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Numerous women of later date wrote on these subjects, and one book is attributed to Polycrates, the sophist. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The little sophists are dumb and terrified, their books are quite forgotten. Hills and the Sea Let us have liberty for the wise and the good—we know them well enough when we see them; and no sophist dare in his heart declare that any charlatan ever mastered men permanently. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Philosophy gradually gave out, like all the higher forms of literature, and there began the reign of the declaimers and the sophists; that is, the lecture-givers, the lawyers, the journalists. Characters and events of Roman History As soon as that world was dead, lo! clouds of rhetoricians, grammarians, sophists, swooped down like insects on its immense body. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations No sophist could pass on her a counterfeit piece of intellectual money; but also she recognized the one pure metallic basis in coins of different epochs, and when mixed with a very ruinous alloy. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Protagoras himself as a professed teacher, or sophist, can improve but little upon, this habitual inculcation. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics The most ingenious sophist could hardly maintain that strenuous anti-slavery voters, who had been angry with the government for backwardness in the emancipation policy, ought now to manifest their discontent by voting the Democratic ticket. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II "How did he learn to lie?" she asked herself and her higher authority said that a boy did not need a model: he would use logic like a sophist. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America All the fathers, with one heart and voice, have declared it execrable and detestable for the holy word of God to be contaminated with the subtleties of sophists, and perplexed by the wrangles of logicians. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations The question arises, How could he hold the attention of such audiences without condescending to flatter their prejudices, or without occasionally acting the part of the sophist and the buffoon? The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style And what shall we say to him—the sleep-walker, the dreamer, the sophist, the word-hunter, the craver after sympathy, but still vulnerable to truth, accessible to opinion, because not sordid or mechanical? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 480, March 12, 1831 Philosophers, as they produce sophists, produce their own scourge. The Man Who Laughs In addition to these he inveighed bitterly against the abolitionists, as a junto of sectaries, sophists, enthusiasts, and fanatics. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II No, I am not a sophist, Evelyn; any thing else than that! Miriam Monfort A Novel Again we see them at their evening rendezvous, at the banquets where philosophers, poets, sophists, painters, artists of every sort,--in fact, the whole Bohemia of Athens,--gather round them. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 It misses its aim if it produces learned pedants, or simple artisans, or cunning sophists, or pretentious practitioners. The History of University Education in Maryland A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense. The Man Who Laughs It has been practised upon by theorists, browbeaten by sophists, intimidated by princes, betrayed by false sons, laid waste by tyranny, corrupted by wealth, torn by schism, and persecuted by fanaticism. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 I never knew there was such a thing—a French sophist I am afraid you mean. Miriam Monfort A Novel The others are the sophists; they wish to seem, and seek their happiness in what they hope to get from other people; their earnestness consists in this. Essays of Schopenhauer There would have been the sophists and the philosophers; the grammatists and the grammarians; the scholars, the masters, and the doctors. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. The Illustrated London Reading Book Beside the public teachings of philosophers and sophists, common schools were established at Athens by Solon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 In short, the writings of these critics, compared with those of the ancients, are like the works of the sophists compared with those of the old philosophers. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield "You are a sophist, I fear," I said, smiling. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel We have had the sophist who defends idleness, and calls it art. All Things Considered Evander had dethroned the elder Dionysius "and sent him for vile subsistence, a wandering sophist through the realms of Greece." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook It is the peculiar style of sophists; more suitable for display than for actual contest; appropriate to schools and exhibitions; but despised in and driven from the forum. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Fool to him; Paley an old woman; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Truly, thou sophist, thy conclusion seems to me after all not to differ much from that of Protagoras.” Phaethon We have had the sophist who defends cruelty, and calls it masculinity. All Things Considered It was not Dionysius the Elder, but Dionysius the Younger, who was the "wandering sophist;" and it was not Evander, but Timoleon, who dethroned him. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook It appears more necessary to distinguish between it and the copy of it by the sophists, who wish to gather all the same flowers which the orator employs in his causes. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 A bishop was named as the inquisitor of the faith, and his diligence soon discovered, in the court and city, the magistrates, lawyers, physicians, and sophists, who still cherished the superstition of the Greeks. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 The ruin of the Pagan religion is described by the sophists as a dreadful and amazing prodigy, which covered the earth with darkness, and restored the ancient dominion of chaos and of night. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 We have had the sophist who defends profligacy, and calls it the liberty of the emotions. All Things Considered Evander came from Greece, And sent the tyrant to his humble rank, Once more reduced to roam for vile subsistence, A wandering sophist thro' the realms of Greece. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The sophists of every age, despising, or affecting to despise, the accidental distinctions of birth and fortune, reserve their esteem for the superior qualities of the mind, with which they themselves are so plentifully endowed. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 As they prevailed, and as they were attracted by different objects, Hadrian was, by turns, an excellent prince, a ridiculous sophist, and a jealous tyrant. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be taught the art of pleading, and bargained for a certain reward to be paid when he should gain a cause. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E It will almost certainly happen—it can almost certainly be prophesied—that in this saturnalia of sophistry there will at some time or other arise a sophist who desires to idealise cowardice. All Things Considered Its allusion to $2 wheat is a trick that would disgrace the sophists who practice in our municipal courts with drunks and courtesans for clients. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He informed Libanius of his progress as far as Hierapolis, by an elegant epistle, which displays the facility of his genius, and his tender friendship for the sophist of Antioch. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Another circumstance is related of these invasions, which might deserve our notice, were it not justly to be suspected as the fanciful conceit of a recent sophist. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Well, sophist! monopolist or speculator, what matters the name, if you admit the thing? System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery And yet such a social system has stood several thousand years, and has been defended by celebrated philosophers; even to-day, under somewhat mitigated forms, sophists of every description uphold and extol it. What is Property? However, we must now contrast the false repentance of the sophists with true repentance, in order that both may be the better understood. The Smalcald Articles The office of president was exercised by the venerable præfect of the East, a second Sallust, whose virtues conciliated the esteem of Greek sophists, and of Christian bishops. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The name of Poet was almost forgotten; that of Orator was usurped by the sophists. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 This babble is worthy of sophists who, destitute of faith and honesty, endeavor to perpetuate scepticism in order to maintain their impertinent uselessness. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery "You see," triumphantly cried those whom he had always combated, "this man is only a sophist." What is Property? Talk about better and wiser, Wiser and worse are one, The sophist is the despiser Of all things under the sun; Is nothing real but confusion? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon The sophist Libanius was born in the capital of the East; he publicly professed the arts of rhetoric and declamation at Nice, Nicomedia, Constantinople, Athens, and, during the remainder of his life, at Antioch. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Yet the most subtle sophist cannot produce a juster simile. Common Sense One of the sophists has already given notice that he can teach any young man how to prove that right is wrong, or wrong is right. Philothea A Grecian Romance But let us leave these sophists to their contradictions and blindness. What is Property? In their own generation the wise may sneer, They hold our sports in derision; Perchance to sophist, or sage, or seer, Were allotted a graver vision. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon His suspicions are unsupported by fact or argument; and we can only esteem the generous zeal of the sophist of Antioch for the cold and neglected ashes of his friend. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 True, Max Meltzer had neither the grain nor the leisure of a sophist, a capacity for tenses or an appreciation of Kant. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It With an unpleasant mixture of derision and feigned humility, the sophist replied, that he left such vast subjects to be discussed by the immortal Socrates. Philothea A Grecian Romance He was a sophist rather than a sage, and circumstances compelled him to be a court chronicler rather than a national historian. Josephus Persons of this description are easily persuaded by a plausible reasoner, that his opinions are true, and with equal facility submit to the next artful sophist, who avows even contrary sentiments. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners, and of religion. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Mr. Grote's rehabilitation of the Greek sophists is a miracle of ingenuity and sense, and does as much honor to the man who wrote it as justice to the men of whom it is written. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 We get not Byron's "self-torturing sophist", but a martyred sage who suffered and died at the hands of Christians,—'he who makes out of Christians human beings'. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller What right was his to resent their opening the door to confraternity, as long as he trod paths so closely parallel to theirs that only a sophist might discriminate them? The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Add to these our logicians and sophists, a generation of men more prattling than an echo and the worst of them able to outchat a hundred of the best picked gossips. The Praise of Folly Of the other philosophers and sophists, who were invited to the Imperial residence by the choice of Julian, or by the success of Maximus, few were able to preserve their innocence or their reputation. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 We find already astir among the sophists the question as to the nature of language. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic I took upon me, for once, to fight with Goliath's weapons, and play the sophist.—'Garrick did not need a friend, as he got from every body all he wanted. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 This is the inveterate tendency that in other ages has made pedagogic scribes, Talmudists, epigoni, and sophists, who have magnified the letter and lost the spirit. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene And I felt while seeking to defend myself that by nature a man always remains a sophist. The Bride of Dreams This writer, referring to Jesus, alludes to "That sophist of theirs who was fastened to a skolops;" which word signified a single piece of wood, and not two pieces joined together. The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion "What proof givest thou of all this?" asks the sophist, ironically. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Aeschines describes him as a wizard and a sophist, who enjoyed deceiving the people or the jury. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 Oh! they sung sweet, and they sung sour; Oh! they tried every double; The boys they stood firm as a tower, And mocked the sophists' trouble. Rampolli Bacon, the illustrious sophist, who first brought philosophy out of the schools, had great reason when he said, "The worst of all things is deified error." The System of Nature, Volume 2 To me you have spoken like a sophist. The Mischief Maker The towering Babels that we raised Where scoffing sophists brawl, The little Antichrists we praised— The night is on them all. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 And bow to dread inquisitor and worship lords of dust; Let sophists give the lie, hearts droop, and courtiers play the worm, Our martyrs of Democracy the Truth sublime affirm! Poems With joy themselves they yielded quite, With singing and God-praising: The sophists had small appetite For these new things so dazing Which God was thus revealing. Rampolli Is it a horrid outrage to address ourselves to reason; to prefer its oracles to the sublime decisions of some sophists, who themselves acknowledge they do not comprehend any thing of the systems they announce? The System of Nature, Volume 2 "Ah, but what gives you your living, Hickey?" argued the amateur sophist. The Brass Bowl The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine; Mope o'er the schoolman's peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life in Mammon's dirty mine; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Make yourself easy, I shall return to you an accomplished sophist. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Lucy, though all heart, was as much matter-of-fact as her brother was a sophist. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale Imagination, through the trick Of doctors, often makes us sick; And why, let any sophist tell, May it not likewise make us well? Poetical Works In the fourth century, the sophist—that is, the professor of philosophy and of rhetoric—Libanius left a vast number of official or academic discourses and letters which were dissertations. Initiation into Literature They seem to be mere clever special pleaders, religious rhetoricians like the Greek sophists, rather than guides in the narrow road which leads to salvation. Amiel's Journal Commit yourself fearlessly to our ministers, the sophists. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 He has followed the peripatetic philosophers, and has been puzzled by the sophists. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Now it is morally impossible that Mackintosh and the sophists of his school can retain this opinion. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. THE PHILOSOPHERS: PLATO.—Contemporaneously the philosophers, quite as much as the sophists, even confining the matter to the literary aspect, cast immortal glory on Attica. Initiation into Literature While the sophists were amusing themselves by clothing erotic and bucolic subjects in rhetorical prose, an Egyptian boldly revived the epos which had been cultivated at Alexandria in the earliest days of the Museum. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities His gifts were of unusual power, but for the externalities of things only, and he possessed just the gifts with which the sophists of old time distinguished themselves. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Accordingly, if virtue is one it can be taught, not however, by a sophist or the State, but by a philosopher, for virtue is knowledge. Authors of Greece I knew what he was thinking, because I was thinking the same, because all modern sophists are only sophists, and there is such a thing as mankind. Tremendous Trifles He was primarily a lecturer, wandering like a sophist from town to town, in order to talk in vivacious, animated, nimble, and paradoxical fashion. Initiation into Literature Such sophists would find that they had made a fatal mistake if they could carry out their theories. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow A whole troop, he said, of sophists and schoolmen were gathered around him. Life of Luther Plato's quarrel with the sophists was based on their total ignorance of the enormous power they exercised for evil, because they knew not what they were doing. Authors of Greece Socrates resembled the sophists in his possession of an inquiring, skeptical mind which questioned every common belief and superstition. Early European History The rhetoricians, who in Rome were what the sophists were in Athens, only far less intelligent, directed the public mind. Initiation into Literature The true division is into great men and small, lovers of truth and sophists, honest men and thieves. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Euthydemus and his brother Dionysodorus are two sophists by trade to whom words mean nothing at all; truth and falsehood are identical, contradiction being an impossibility. Authors of Greece But he went beyond the sophists in his emphasis on problems of every-day morality. Early European History These were the rhetors and the sophists; properly speaking distinct, but often confounded under the general name of sophist. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Thieves and sophists wrangle, but the great and true "join hands through the centuries," and between them is eternal peace. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Sturdy facts are never wanting in support of erroneous views; and more false conclusions are drawn from them than from the subtlest arguments of the sophist. The Bushman — Life in a New Country Again, the indifference to or the ridicule of truth shown by some sophists made them odious to Plato. Authors of Greece This ingenious sophist deals out his blows with such boisterous haste in the province of criticism, that the half of them are thrown away. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature How right that Imperial sophist of the Decline to call it a convulsion! and the first Bonaparte, an affair of the sopha. The Grip of Desire He says: "This good man possessed a moderate amount of knowledge, was a goodish grammarian, a musician, somewhat of a sophist, and rather given to picking holes in others." Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period Thus the sophist was saved, by pretending that he had sapped the strength of the barbarians to serve Augustus. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Not the sophists, a discredited class, nor the statesmen, who cannot teach their sons to follow them. Authors of Greece Voltaire was by turns philosopher, rhetorician, sophist, and buffoon. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Orators, sophists, and pleaders, the three corporations of the Faculty of Letters,—Letters of State, signed and patented! Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War The others are the sophists; they want to seem that which they are not, and seek their happiness in what they hope to get from the world. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature They had a comic drama, which constantly held up to ridicule philosophers and sophists and their vain doctrines. A History of Freedom of Thought In the Protagoras Socrates while a young man is represented as meeting a friend Hippocrates, who was on his way to Protagoras, a sophist from Abdera who had just arrived at Athens. Authors of Greece Do you not know that Diogenes pointed out one of the sophists in this way by stretching out his middle finger? A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion It logically leads to that other idea, of the native majesty of man and the perfectibility of society, which this sophist boldly accepted. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam In addition to these he inveighed bitterly against the abolitionists, as a junto of secretaries, sophists, enthusiasts, and fanatics. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) All the pedants and sophists of Germany cannot whitewash Frederic II. or Henry VIII. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation Socrates shows first that his friend has no idea of the seriousness of his action in applying for instruction to a sophist whose definition he is unable to give. Authors of Greece These three sonnets, though not linked by rhymes, form a series, predicting the speedy overthrow of tyrants, sophists, hypocrites—Campanella's natural enemies—and the coming of a better age for human society. Sonnets Was it because that mitred sophist, Warburton, thought fit to talk of the polluted streams of the Alexandrian school, without knowing any thing of the source whence those streams are derived? Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato The result was that with the poets style became as it had become with the sophists, an end in itself. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism If the Supreme Being used His power, as the Roman Cæsar used his; if He used His wisdom as the Greek sophist used his, would He be glorious then and worthy of admiration? All Saints' Day and Other Sermons Ye would learn the secret of my celebrated dilemma," said he, "which no sophist can elude? The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales Tyrants, hypocrites, sophists are the three plagues of humanity, standing between our intellect and God, who is the source of freedom, goodness, and true wisdom. Sonnets The popular teachers were sophists and rhetoricians, who, as men of fashion and ambition, despised the sublime speculations of Socrates and Plato. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The evidence at least points to a very marked similarity between the styles of the sophists and of the poets in the fourth century B.C. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism I see how it is,—you have been with the sophists; accursed race! who would deny us all concern in human affairs. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It will be acknowledged, I believe, that the heel sophists would be as little pleased with the company of the philosophers as the philosophers with theirs. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 Telesius, the arrow from thy bow Midmost his band of sophists slays that high Tyrant of souls that think; he cannot fly: While Truth soars free, loosed by the self-same blow. Sonnets Socrates was killed by sophists vile, Rousseau meets his death through Christians' wile,— Rousseau—who would fain make Christians men! The Poems of Schiller — First period This is well illustrated by the literary controversy between Isocrates and Alcidamas, both sophists and both students of the famous Gorgias. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism And mind you, if we had a sophist here, he would want to know all about that superiority. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The public themselves, he says, are the real sophists and the most complete and thorough educators. Politics: A Treatise on Government For he speaks otherwise of faith than the sophists. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Aristaenetus is one of those weak, florid sophists, who flourished in the decline and degradation of ancient literature, and strewed their gaudy flowers of rhetoric over the dead muse of Greece. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 In the Protagoras, however, he puts into the mouth of that famous sophist an exposition of the conventional Greek opinion. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism When I was Pythagoras, I was—not to deceive you—a sophist; that is the long and short of it. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Their object is to discover the most fertile sources of error in solitary reasoning; his was to enumerate the various tricks of refutation which could be employed by a sophist in controversy. Deductive Logic The prophet says nothing of those things which the monks and sophists impudently fabricate. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Between Rhetoric and Dialogue there was a feud, which had begun when Socrates five centuries before had fought his battles with the sophists. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 The physicist, in the person of Socrates, is identified with the sophist; on the one hand he is represented as teaching the theory of material causation, on the other the art of lying and deceit. The Greek View of Life The sophist had not had enough; 'You are no infant,' he went on, 'but a philosopher, it seems; may one ask what marks the transformation?' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He is borne along with no pompous paradoxes, shines in no glittering tinsel of a fashionable phraseology, is neither fop nor sophist. Charles Lamb Monks and sophists have taught this pharisaic opinion in the Church. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Great Ionian cities like Smyrna and Ephesus were full of admired sophists or teachers of rhetoric. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 The orthodox political economists are clever sophists; they mask and confuse the truth very speciously; we must have keen eyes and sharp noses to spy out and scent out their tortuous fallacies. Philistia They subsequently took ship for Egypt, and carried on their studies there together, Demetrius practising the Cynic philosophy under the famous sophist of Rhodes, while Antiphilus, it seems, was to be a doctor. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 To Coleridge: "Bless you, old sophist, who next to human nature taught me all the corruption I was capable of knowing." Charles Lamb The sophists have particular degrees of merit, just as money-changers have grades of weight for gold or silver. Apology of the Augsburg Confession A common form of exhibition was for a sophist to appear before an audience and let them propose subjects, of which he must choose one and deliver an impromptu oration upon it. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 That man is the slipperiest sophist I have ever met with. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Philosophers, too, some of them were, acute reasoners, sophists, casuists. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca We fancied we were standing before a rhetorical sophist, who for jest and practice knew how to give a fair appearance to the strangest things. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Neither has the Pope of Rome consulted well for his own dignity in employing such patrons, because he has entrusted a matter of the greatest importance to the judgment of these sophists. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Nay, you are too hard for us, Prometheus; we will not attempt a sophist of your mettle. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 If you ask: why not?—you will be condemned as a sophist. The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein But no; you think all morals sophists' tricks, Bring virtue down to words, a grove to sticks; Then hey for wealth! quick, quick, forestall the trade With Phrygia and the East, your fortune's made. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry And after denouncing so justly average modern men for so many years as sophists and as slaves, he looked down from an empty slope in Hampstead and saw what gods they are. The Ball and the Cross May the Lord Christ soon put to shame the sophists who thus mutilate His holy Word! Apology of the Augsburg Confession Julius Pollux, a sophist whom Lucian is supposed to have attacked in The Rhetorician's Vade mecum, is best known as author of an Onomasticon, or word-list, containing the most important words relating to certain subjects. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Both fools, mere quibblers and sophists, idly and vainly attached to certain ridiculous notions of their own, founded neither on truth nor on reason. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Wit—sophist—songster—Yorick of thy tribe, Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school, To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe, Arch scoffer, and mad Abbot of Misrule! Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Which is madder, the Spanish priest who permitted tyranny, or the Prussian sophist who admired it? The Ball and the Cross These great emotions can be distinguished in letters and terms; they are not thus separated in fact, as these sweet sophists dream. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Such was the old education given by the sophists, which aimed at turning out a well-balanced, effective man. The Altar Fire All sentiments that she regarded as hurtful to Irene in her present state of mind she met with her calm, conclusive mode of reasoning, that took away the specious force of the sophist's dogmas. After the Storm Thus the ideas of the "sophists" of the age of Voltaire were alive in the speculative world, not withstanding political, religious, and philosophical reaction. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Godwin Peak never tried to play the sophist with this fact. Born in Exile Wherefore, all good men understand that the doctrine of the sophists and canonists concerning repentance has been censured for a useful and godly purpose. Apology of the Augsburg Confession For the sole ground of the argument was the old man's character, and sophists are not needed to demonstrate that we can very soon have too much of a bad thing. Complete Short Works of George Meredith Lashmar, perhaps, was mere sophist, charlatan, an unscrupulous journalist who talked instead of writing. Our Friend the Charlatan They ascribed evils of civilisation to inequality arising from the existence of private property, but Morelly rejected the view of the "bold sophist" Rousseau that science and art were to blame. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth He tried to think so, but after all was ashamed to play the sophist with himself. Eve's Ransom May God put to confusion these godless sophists who so wickedly distort God's Word to their own most vain dreams! Apology of the Augsburg Confession "If without perception, then without sin," says the sophist; "it is merely a question of balance." The Master-Christian The veritable sophist then, the dynamic sophist, was the Athenian public of the day; those ostensible or professional Sophists being not so much its intellectual directors as the pupils or followers of it. Plato and Platonism In an impassioned discourse the sophist Favorinus counsels mothers to suckle their own infants; and there are Roman epitaphs erected to mothers, which gratefully record this proof of natural affection as a thing then unusual. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 They are born sophists, and I believe they would be able to outwit the devil himself! Louisa of Prussia and Her Times The Helen of Euripides, in the “Troades,” is a pettifogging sophist, who pleads her cause to Menelaus with rhetorical artifice. Helen of Troy Hardie raised his opera-glass, and his first impulse was to brain the judicious Kennet, gazing up to him for an answer, with spectacles goggling like supernatural eyes of dead sophists in the sun. Hard Cash But these are sophists and arrogant, who write so impudently and proudly against great and excellent personages. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies |
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