The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
Author
Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
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London :: Printed by Fr. Leach ... for the author,
1699.
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"The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Ep. 35. To Polignotus.
VVEll Polignotus! I'll give over send∣ing
to you any more either Gifts
or Letters: and pray do you give over
your Magnifying me at that Rate I hear
you do in all Companies. For since you
still refuse to Accept of any of those
things I send you; you do more Con∣demn
me by your Actions, than you
can Commend me by your Words.
'Tis not the Shadow makes the Substance,
but the Substance the Shadow. And
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, say the Wise men, Words are
the Shadows of Deeds.
Notes
The Original runs thus.—By your Words—〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Not considering that Wisemen take Words for the Shadows of things: that is, as the shadow is not alone without the presence of the Body, so Words are accompanied with the Action. Dissert. upon Phalari:, &c. P. 33.