Excerpt from Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Vol. 6
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Excerpt from Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Vol. 6
The philosopher and grammarian may both find matter of instruction in this work. - Cicero's judgment of the stile of it. - Of Alexander Aprodisienses's commentary upon the Dialectic of Aristotle - The greatest use of this work is to correct the text of Aristotle - It is a wonder that there are not many more errors in Aristotle's text, considering how providentially his works were preserved - If they had not been preserved, we should have had no complete system of philosophy, such as is to be found in Aristotle's writings. - Of Cicero's topics - addressed to Trebatius the lawyer - illustrated by examples from the law. - Cicero's skill in the law. - The ignorance, not only of Trebatius, but of almost all the philosophers of that age, in the philosophy of Aristotle. - That philosophy would have been lost, if it had not been preserved in the Alexandrian school.
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