Substance And Show, And Other Lectures

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Substance And Show, And Other Lectures
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886
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Indeed, we are not to suppose that his poverty and the contempt of so many of his fellow-citizens were at all delightful to him. He felt his isola- tion. Xenophon, in a fictitious dialogue, makes Socrates say in reply to a man who begged him to correct any errors the sage might see in him : " How can I correct you when you are already possessed of the character of a good and honest man ? and especially when I am taken for the Socrates. 129 greatest trifler, who employs himself in nothing but me
...asuring the air ? or, which is a far worse character, that I am a poor man, which is a token of the greatest folly ? This, indeed, might have been a trouble to me, if I had not met the other day a horse belonging to Nicias, with a crowd of people about him admiring hb good qualities, and talking abundance in praise of his strength and spirit This made me ask the question of the master of the horse, whether his horse was very rich ? But he stared upon me, and laughed at me, as if I had been a madman, and only gave me this short answer.

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