 | Sallustius - Ethics - 1793 - 194 pages
...a power of the gods, difpofing things differing from each other, and happening contrary to [ S« 1 expectation, to beneficent purpofes * ; and on this account it is proper that cities fhould celebrate this goddefs in common ; fince every city is compofed from different particulars.... | |
 | Pausanias - Greece - 1794 - 440 pages
...paffagi is in Iliad 14. ver. 3; 8, &c. Page 424. Fortune.] Fortune is that divine power which difpofes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purpofcs. Or it may be defined that deific diftribution which caufes every thing to fill up the lot... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Taylor - First philosophy - 1801 - 482 pages
...the admirable bimplicius. Fortune, therefore, confidered as a divinity, is that power which difpofes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purpofes. Or it may be defined that deific diftributioij which caules every thing to fill up the lot affigned... | |
 | Maximus (of Tyre) - 1804 - 286 pages
...capricious cause of good and evil ; but, philosophically considered, it is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening, contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. Or it may be, defined to be that del fie distribution which causes every thing to complete... | |
 | Maximus (Tyrius.) - 1804 - 288 pages
...capricious cause of good and evil ; but, philosophically considered, it is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening, contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. Or it may be defined to be that deific distribution which causes every thing to complete... | |
 | Proclus - Neoplatonism - 1816 - 602 pages
...treatise On the Gods and the World, " Fortune must be considered as a power of the Gods, disposing things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes." He adds, " On this account it is proper that cities should celebrate this Goddess in common... | |
 | Proclus - 1816 - 578 pages
...treatise On the Gods and the World, '^Fortune must be considered as a power of the Gods, disposing things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes." He adds, ** On this account it is proper that cities should celebrate this Goddessi» common... | |
 | Pausanias (the traveller) - 1824 - 410 pages
...passage is in Iliad 14, ver. 378, &c. Page 391. Fortune."] Fortune is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. Or it may be defined that deific distribution which causes every thing to fill up the lot... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...passage is in Iliad 14, ver. 378, &c. Page 391. Fortune..] Fortune is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. Or it maybe defined that deific distribution which causes every thing to fill up the lot... | |
 | Orpheus (Greek mythology) - Eleusinian mysteries - 1896 - 272 pages
...according to the Platonic, which is the same with the Orphic theology, is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. Or it may be defined to be that divine distribution which causes every thing to fill up the... | |
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Fortune is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes. 