Word: grote
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...terms 'high and low,' as applied to pleasure, signify anything else than varying degrees of intensity and duration? (Mill's Utilitarianism Chap. II; Grote: On Mill's Utilitarianism, Chap. on Quality of Pleasure; Sidgwick's and Green's articles in "Mind" 1877 on "Hedonism and the Chief Good;" Hyslop in Andover Review...
...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
...very first chapters one point is settled which is of especial interest to us at Harvard. About six months ago Professor Wright completed an article for the Harvard Studies in which merely on literary grounds he fixed a date for the Cylonian conspiracy much earlier than that accepted by Grote. In these first chapters there is a striking confirmation of this on historical evidence, and the date fixed, as Professor Wright argued that it should be, before the legislation of Draco. Contrary to the general idea we learn that Draco established the Athenian senate and that the Areopagus...
...Grote's History of Greece...