What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Էջ 245Paul Barron Watson - 1884 - 338 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 էջ
...It is from the desire and obligation of what is just and good.' ° ' To ask to be paid for virtue is as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking.'6 In doing good, man ' should be like the vine which has produced grapes, and asks for nothing... | |
| Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1864 - 345 էջ
...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose, and by working according to their several... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 334 էջ
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it \ Yes," And again : — " What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking ?" Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, u 2 has to correct its apparent offers... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 332 էջ
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it ? Yes." And again:— " What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for \\.,just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking i" Christianity, in... | |
| H. A. - 1865 - 184 էջ
...vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced itsproper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so such a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on... | |
| emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1869 - 230 էջ
...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose, and by working according to their several... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 526 էջ
...It is from the desire and obligation of what is just and good.' 5 ' To ask to be paid for virtue is as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking.'6 In doing good, man ' should be like the vine which has produced grapes, and asks for nothing... | |
| Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 էջ
...which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so such a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1872 - 524 էջ
...vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing further after it has produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made honey, so a man, when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 էջ
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it? Yes.' And again : — ' What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or (he feel for walking ?' Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, has to correct its... | |
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