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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdo...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorou...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists....Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning. What with sophists, what with pret...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself. Nothing can be more courteous and generous than ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: "This passage does Plato great honour. Philhellenis...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy superior to this in profundity, ingenuity, and eloqu...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "This is indeed a noble dream. Pity that it should c...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of ch...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sobe...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more tha...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of tem...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so ea...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book


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