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 The Platonic Dialogues,

FOR ENGLISH READERS.

BY W. WHEWELL, D.D. F.R.S.

MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOLUME I.

SECOND EDITION. Foolscap 8vo. extra cloth, 7s. 6d.

CONTAINING:

LACHES. CHARMIDES. LYSIS. THE RIVALS. PROTAGORAS. GREATER HIPPIAS. LESSER HIPPIAS. FIRST ALCIBIADES. SECOND ALCIBIADES. THEAGES. CLITOPHON. PHAEDO.

VOLUME 11.

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CONTAINING;

ION. EUTHYDEMUS. GORGIAS. MENO. EITRYPHO. APOLOGY. CHITO. PREDRUS. MNEXENUS. PHLEBUS.

VOLUME III.

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CONTAINING:—THE REPUBLIC, and THE TIMAEUS.

"In the present instance we have most appropriately one of the deepest thiners of the present day making the Platonic Dialogues as intelligible in an English garb, to the nnglish reader, as they are in the original to himself and the comparatively few scholars The Dialogues are rendered additionally intelligible, and, indeed, interesting to the English roler, by copious explanatory passages thrown in parenthetically here and there, and sufficienly distinguished from the translated portions by being unaccompanied by the marks of quotaton which distinguish the translation throughout. In addition to this, the translation itself mats high praise; while by no means the least valuable portions of the volume are the 'Remarks' at the conclusion of each Dialogue."—Gentleman's Magazine.

"So readable is the book that no young lady need be deterred from undertakig it; and we are much mistaken, if there be not fair readers who will think, as Lady Jane Grey did, that hunting or other female sport is but a shadow compared with the pleasure there is to be found in Plato The main questions which the Greek master and his disciples discuss a not fit simply or theses in Moral Philosophy schools; they are questions real and practicalwhich concern Englishmen in public and private life, or their sisters or wives who are busy inpwly or aristocratic households. Questions of right and wrong of the virtues which children in National Schools ought to be taught, and the training which educes the best qualities of body as well as mind."—Athenæum