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RV 192 (Chap. 25.) too."What, handsomer than Achilles?"But I have fine Hair too."Had not Achilles finer and brighter? Yet he neither combed it nicely, nor curled it."But I am strong too."Can you lift such a Stone then, as Hector, or Ajax?"But I am of a noble Family too."Is your Mother a Goddess, or your Father descended from Jupiter? And what Good did all this do Achilles, when he sat crying for a Girl?"But I am an Orator."And was not he? Do not you see how he treated the most eloquent of the Greeks, Phœnix and Ulysses? How he struck them dumb? This is all I have to say to you; and even this, against my Inclination.

Why so?

Because you have given me no Encouragement. For what can I see in you, to encourage me, as spirited Horses do their Riders? Your Person? That you disfigure. Your Dress? That is effeminate. Your Behaviour? Your Look? Absolutely nothing. When you would hear a Philosopher, do not say to him, "You tell me nothing;" but only show yourself worthy, or fit, to hear; and you will find, how you will move him to speak. 



HEN one of the Company said to him, "Convince me that Logic is necessary;" Would you have me demonstrate it to you, says he?"Yes."Then I must use a demonstrative Form of Argument"Granted."And how will you know then, whether I argue sophistically? On this, the Man being silent; You see, says he, that, even by your own Confession, Logic is