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On The Pleasures Of The Table Among The Greeks.
it is with us . If we drink excessively , we not only find our bodies heavy and languid , but we can scraceiy breathe , much iess express ourselves intelligibly ; whereas , let us drink our wine , to use a sayin ° - of Gorgias , as plants imbibe the dews ; let us take it often , but always in small quantities , instead of oppressing with violence , it will warm with persuasion , and give , spirit to keep alive the utile et duke of
conversation . " In this sense did Horace mean to speak of Cato , in saying that he strengthened his virtue with a measure of wine . Narratur et Prisci Catonis scape mero caluisse virtus . It will undoubtedly be objected by those who have attentively perused the " Banquet" of Platothat the conversation is often
, very licentious ; that from love , which is the subject , are deduced many , maxims far from being consistent with the gravity of the wise men who assisted at this celebrated repast . The answer is obvious to a few moments reflection ; here we find the immortal Socrates , as the wisest of the assembly , when the conversation falls to his turn , nobly reproving and correcting the licentiousness ot'his companionsand
; insensibly altering their love of creatures into that of the Sovereign Creator , Company such as this , after long sitting , rose from table greater friends , if possible , than when they met , not only more instructed , but more virtuous . It may indeed be said , that in these " Banquets" Plato and Xenophon have only presented us with the fruitsof their refined imagination : but it is not doing more than justice
to these celebrated ornaments of human nature , and not at all less probable , to suppose , that they served up to us the banquet of their own times as it was , and of which the witnesses were many ; and the more so as we find them generally attentive to a real exhibition of the manners of the age on which they reflected such lustre . Z .
On The Overfondness Of Parents.
ON THE OVERFONDNESS OF PARENTS .
7 « vil ' utm libertas excidit el vim Qignam lege regi . Hon , I AM engaged in a visit at a friend ' s house in the country , where I promised myself much satisfactisn . I have , however , been greatly
disappointed iu my expectations ; for on my arrival here I found " a house full of children , who are humoured beyond measure , and indeed absolutely spoiled , by the ridiculous indulgence of a fond father and mother . This unlucky circumstance has subjected me to many inconveniencies , and , as I am a man of a grave reserved disposition , has been a perpetual source of embarrassment and perplexity . The c * .
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On The Pleasures Of The Table Among The Greeks.
it is with us . If we drink excessively , we not only find our bodies heavy and languid , but we can scraceiy breathe , much iess express ourselves intelligibly ; whereas , let us drink our wine , to use a sayin ° - of Gorgias , as plants imbibe the dews ; let us take it often , but always in small quantities , instead of oppressing with violence , it will warm with persuasion , and give , spirit to keep alive the utile et duke of
conversation . " In this sense did Horace mean to speak of Cato , in saying that he strengthened his virtue with a measure of wine . Narratur et Prisci Catonis scape mero caluisse virtus . It will undoubtedly be objected by those who have attentively perused the " Banquet" of Platothat the conversation is often
, very licentious ; that from love , which is the subject , are deduced many , maxims far from being consistent with the gravity of the wise men who assisted at this celebrated repast . The answer is obvious to a few moments reflection ; here we find the immortal Socrates , as the wisest of the assembly , when the conversation falls to his turn , nobly reproving and correcting the licentiousness ot'his companionsand
; insensibly altering their love of creatures into that of the Sovereign Creator , Company such as this , after long sitting , rose from table greater friends , if possible , than when they met , not only more instructed , but more virtuous . It may indeed be said , that in these " Banquets" Plato and Xenophon have only presented us with the fruitsof their refined imagination : but it is not doing more than justice
to these celebrated ornaments of human nature , and not at all less probable , to suppose , that they served up to us the banquet of their own times as it was , and of which the witnesses were many ; and the more so as we find them generally attentive to a real exhibition of the manners of the age on which they reflected such lustre . Z .
On The Overfondness Of Parents.
ON THE OVERFONDNESS OF PARENTS .
7 « vil ' utm libertas excidit el vim Qignam lege regi . Hon , I AM engaged in a visit at a friend ' s house in the country , where I promised myself much satisfactisn . I have , however , been greatly
disappointed iu my expectations ; for on my arrival here I found " a house full of children , who are humoured beyond measure , and indeed absolutely spoiled , by the ridiculous indulgence of a fond father and mother . This unlucky circumstance has subjected me to many inconveniencies , and , as I am a man of a grave reserved disposition , has been a perpetual source of embarrassment and perplexity . The c * .