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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 101 PHOCION AND CATO THE YOUNGER COMPARED Of all the illustrious men whom we have compared together, Phocion and Cato the Younger appear to supply the most exact parallel. Their excellencies as men, as warriors, and as statesmen, are almost precisely alike. With similar combinations of austerity and softness, of valour and prudence, of anxiety for others, and neglect of themselves, they both united an extreme horror of every thing disgraceful, an unchangeable love of justice, and a complete devotion to the cause of their country. Both well educated, and inured in early life to habits of sobriety and fortitude, which enabletf them to brave the rigour of the coldest climates, and the toils of the most perilous warfare, they preserved them unimpaired till death. Phocion was at first the pupil of Plato, and subsequently of Xenocrates, the most virtuous of the Grecian philosophers. Cato, in his orphanship, was instructed by an enlightened man, who paid particular attention to the cultivation of his heart. He was tardy in his perception, but tenacious in his retention; and even his tardiness arose chiefly from his reluctance to receive any information without a full conviction of its truth. The sects, however, to which they respectively attached themselves, were of a totally different description. Phocion, from the soft spring of the Academy, drank that mild and moderate philosophy which Socrates had first recommended as the surest stimulus to virtue. In the hardness of stoicism, Cato found something more analogous to what we may almost call the inflexibility of his natural character. What indeed must hare been his ardour in behalf of that sect, when we see him incurring the trouble of a journey to Asia for the sole purpose of bringing back with him the stoic Athenodorus ? To...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217844772 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217844774 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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