The keen insight and exceptional intellect of the philosopher-poet Goethe recognized in him "the greatest talent of our century."

How different our dream: it is no illusion of a happy accident of philosopher kings.

Philosopher-statesman of the Republic.

Subtlest truths, which would have taken philosophers pages of circumlocution and big words to state, were dropped out by the way in a sentence or two of the most transparent Saxon."

However that may be, we find that this great Philosopher saw, by the Light of Reason, that it was suitable to the Goodness of the Divine Nature, to send a Person into the World who should instruct Mankind in the Duties of Religion, and, in particular, teach them how to Pray.

Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist.

He told me how he and his philosopher brother expected that at once all things should become new, and how unwillingly as the years went on they had accepted their disappointment.

Nereus, the dispossessed monarch, fled to a cavern of the Hellenic sea in order to live the calm existence of the philosopher-counselor of mankind, and Poseidon installed himself in the mother-of-pearl palaces with his white steeds tossing helmets of bronze and manes of gold.

The philosopher cricket continues his song, the amorous toad his poem.

In the view of the end of the nineteenth century, expressed by a distinguished philosopher-critic, this work is a unique amalgam of the artistic spirit, objectivity, and contemplative clearness of Homer with the soul-life of the present, the heart-beat of the German people, the characteristic traits which mark the German nature.

His funeral oration I have seen Often; and when on that I turn my eyes, I all the old philosophers despise.

From Keats's description of his Mentor's manner, as well as behavior, that evening, I cannot but believe it to have been one of the usual ebullitions of the egoism, not to say of the uneasiness, known to those who were accustomed to hear the great moral philosopher discourse upon his own productions and descant upon those of a contemporary.

The laird at the time with which we are now dealing was Sir James Hall, whose epitaph in the old church at Dunglass bears that he was "a philosopher eminent among the distinguished men of an enquiring age."

Once, perhaps once only, Plato's dream was realized: in that noblest of philosopher emperors, wholly dedicated to the welfare of the world he ruled with autocratic power; yet the soul of Marcus Aurelius was burdened with an impossible task.

The cynical philosopher fancies he has a victory in this matterthat he can laugh when he shows that the words or antics of the child, so much admired by its worshippers, are common enough.

Savage had, once upon a time, led the youthful Johnson more than a few feet away from the path of rectitude, but the philosopher forgave, without forgetting, the wiles of the tempter, and treated him with a generosity by no means deserved.

Wild oats must be sown, he says; when a youth has given full fling to his propensities to vice, they will leave him, and he may become a useful citizen,a dangerous view of a preceptor's duty, which reminds us of the treatment, of the boy Nero by his philosopher guardian long afterwards.

That know no other content but wealth, bravery, and the town-pleasures; that think all else but idle speculation, and the philosophers madmen.

Hu Wei-yung, politician Huai-nan Tz[)u], philosopher Huai, Ti, Chin ruler Huan Hsüan, general Huan Wen, general Huang Ch'ao, leader of rebellion Huang Ti, ruler Huang Tsung-hsi, philosopher Hui-chou merchants hui-kuan, association Hui Ti, Chin ruler Manchu ruler Hui Tsung, Sung ruler Hui Tz[)u], philosopher Human sacrifice Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, leader of rebellion Huns (see Hu, Hsiung-nu)

He was both a poet and a philosopher militant.

Our shrewd philosopher-minister Franklin, had previously heard the literati wont to gather there ridiculing the Bible, and had guessed that they knew little of it.

[6640]Cecilius in Minutius, Celsus and Porphyrius the philosopher object: and as Machiavel contends, were much more noble, generous, victorious, had a more flourishing commonwealth, better cities, better soldiers, better scholars, better wits.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I, therefore, extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.

Thus did this philosopher reason, comparing the world with our own living existence,which he took to be air,an imperishable principle of life.

Militarism Militia Millet Mills Min, state in Fukien Ming dynasty Ming Jui, general Min Ti, Chin ruler Ming Ti, Han ruler Wei ruler Later T'ang ruler Minorate Missionaries, Christian (see Jesuits) Mo Ti, philosopher Modernization Mohammedan rebellions (see Muslim)