 | 1910 - 964 str.
...in the j.. public is the one which insists that the literature selected for the curriculum shall ' be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue'; the philosopher unhesitatingly rejects those passages, even of the sacred Homer and Hesiod, which fail... | |
 | Plato - 1861 - 480 str.
...that age is adopted as matter of belief, has a tendency to become fixed and indelible ; and therefore we ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that...fictions which children first hear should be adapted as far as may be to the promotion of virtue. " If any one proceed to ask us what should be 18 these... | |
 | Plato - 1866 - 576 str.
...cannot discriminate between what is allegory and what is not; and whatever : at that age is~adopted as a matter of belief, has a tendency to become fixed....the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. There is certainly reason in this. But if any one were to proceed to ask us what these fictions are,... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 str.
...tendency to become fixed and indelible ; and therefore we ought to esteem it of the greatest iralwrtance that the fictions which children first hear should...adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtne." 1 This passage will put the modern reader into a position to estimate correctly the point... | |
 | Homerus - 1866 - 506 str.
...fixed and indelible ; and therefore we ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictious which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue." 1 This passage will put the modern reader into a position to estimate correctly the point of view from... | |
 | John Louis Petit - 1869 - 98 str.
...that age is adopted as matter of belief, has a tendency to become fixed and indelible ; and therefore we ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that...fictions which children first hear should be adapted, as far as may be, to the promotion of virtue." WHEWELL'S Platonic Dialogues,\o\. iii. p. 175 et seq.... | |
 | 1877 - 900 str.
...these tales of the gods were fables, but still fables which might be useful to amuse children with : " We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that...the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue." If we grant to you that it is good for poor people and children to believe some of these fictions,... | |
 | 1900 - 708 str.
...foundation of such a university. In laying this foundation let us remember Plato's words that " the fiction which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue." In this good foundation I should place " Mother Goose" first of child lore; the great myths, Hans Christian... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - 1884 - 78 str.
...the first, by old men and old women, and all elderly persons ; and such is the strain in which our poets must be compelled to write. But stories like...the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.' — (Rep. ii. 378. Tr. Davies and Vaughan.) And Seneca says the same thing, with still more reason... | |
 | Edgar Saltus - 1886 - 248 str.
...and as a consequence the gateways to immorality would be opened wide. Now Plato said that we should esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions...the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. There are, however, not a few grave thinkers who have asserted that the Bible is inapt to serve such... | |
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... be found in Homer, must be refused admittance into our state, whether they be allegorical or not. For a child cannot discriminate between what is allegory and what is not ; and whatever at that age is adopted as a matter of belief, has a tendency... 
