 Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.  Bookseller's catalogues - Sayfa 60David Nutt tarafından - 1837Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1910 - 1066 sayfa
...famous of the works of Boelius is his book DC Consolatione Philosophise. Gibbon justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous... | |
 | 1910 - 1050 sayfa
...Boetius is his book De Consoljtiune Philosopkiac. Gibbon justly describes it as "a golden volume, nol unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism oí the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval limes is attested... | |
 | 1911 - 540 sayfa
...Roman senator Boethtus, must be given a conspicuous place. In the well-known verdict of Gibbon, it is a ' golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.' It was the closing work of Roman literature, composed in the gloomy tower... | |
 | Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy - 1911 - 1052 sayfa
...imprisonment that Boêthius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a work described by Gibbon as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully." It is a dialogue in prose and verse (a species of composition suggested probably by the medleys of... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - 1916 - 240 sayfa
...prepared to prove to all who will listen the deceitfulness of this world.3 Gibbon calls the Consolation ' a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.' * One thousand years later Sir Thomas More, similarly placed in the i... | |
 | Alfred (King of England), George Forrest Browne - 1920 - 434 sayfa
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now... | |
 | 1922 - 292 sayfa
...that he sees the parallel between Joseph and Boethius. Gibbon praises the Consolation of Philosophy as "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully". He gives an account of Boethius such as few have endeavored to improve*. Of the greatest significance... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1996 - 1030 sayfa
...composed in imprisonment the tower of Pavia the consolation of philosophy; a golden volume "" eat ' not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks - 1997 - 408 sayfa
...hero, and of tragic hero. But there is more: Boethius is not only a great scholar, but the author of "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author," who wrote it while, "oppressed with fetters, [he] expected each moment... | |
 | 2006 - 529 sayfa
...the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower ofPavia the Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The Celestial guide, whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now... | |
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