"Categoric" Quotes from Famous Books
... let me alone: I am not thine. [1] Prim Creed, with categoric point, forbear To feature me my Lord by rule and line. Thou canst not measure Mistress Nature's hair, Not one sweet inch: nay, if thy sight is sharp, Would'st count the strings upon an angel's harp? ... — Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... called Apthas by Simplicius in Categoric. Aristotelis. [Greek: Kai ho Aphthas dechetai porrhothen tou puros eidos.] The same by Gregory Nyssen is contracted, and called, after the Ionic manner, [Greek: Phthes: hosper ho kaloumenos Phthes exaptetai]. ... — A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant |