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Elements of moral philosophy
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Year: 1832 Publisher: Boston, Massachussetts : Perkins & Marvin,

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Knowledge is congenial to the human mind. The acquisition of it affords a pleasure, independent of the uses to which it may be applied. But it is the practical utility of any branch of knowledge, which gives it its chief value. The difference between the practical utility of the various branches of knowledge, is very great. Some can scarcely be said to be of any benefit beyond the momentary gratification afforded by the acquisition; others produce an effect on the mind which is indirectly beneficial; and others are directly subservient to the purposes of human life. Such knowledge and such studies, as tend to strengthen and elevate the mind, to induce a habit of reflection, and to withdraw the thoughts from the thousand trifles by which they are so prone to be occupied, exert a salutary influence on the conduct and on the happiness of the individual, by means of the effect which they produce on the mind, though they may not be capable of being directly applied to any practical purposes. But as it is the disposition of heart which individuals cherish, and the course of moral conduct which they pursue, that are the grand source of happiness or misery to themselves and others, that knowledge which is best adapted to meliorate the disposition and to regulate the conduct, must be most worthy of our attention and pursuit".


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Eustathii Metropolitae Thessalonicensis Opuscula. Accedunt Trapezuntinae Historiae Scriptores Panaretus et Eugenicus : E codicibus Mss. Basileensi, Parisinis, Veneto
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ISBN: 1139176684 1108044492 Year: 1832 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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A German classical scholar, philologist and pioneer of Byzantine studies, Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel (1787-1860) had already published two volumes of his own commentaries on the Greek poet Pindar when, in 1832, he prepared this edition of the minor works of the twelfth-century Greek scholar Eustathius (c.1115-c.1194), metropolitan of Thessalonica, whose valuable commentaries on Homer, as edited by Johann Stallbaum, are also reissued in this series. Tafel's edition gives various works from a Basel codex, principally orations, as well as a preface to Eustathius' lost commentary on Pindar and some of his observations on religious and monastic practices. The Paris codex contains numerous letters from Eustathius to a variety of recipients, including the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople. Furthermore, this collection contains fourteenth- and fifteenth-century pieces relating to Trebizond by Michael Panaretos and John Eugenikos respectively. Following a Latin introduction, all texts are in Greek.

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