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Robert Drew Hicks
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Robert Drew Hicks (29 June 1850 – 8 March 1929) was a classical scholar, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The son of William Hicks, head clerk in the post office at Bristol, Hicks was born in 1850, was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1868. Graduating BA in 1874, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1876. He was college lecturer in classics from 1884 to 1900. He married Bertha Mary Heath in 1896, who herself held an MA in classics from the University of London. His brother-in-law was Sir Thomas Heath. Between 1898 and 1900 Robert Hicks became blind, but he nevertheless produced most of his major works after this time, aided by his wife. He died at his home, Fossedene, at Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
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But there is a difficulty attending this form of government, for it seems, that the person who himself was capable of curing any one who was then sick, must be the best judge whom to employ as a physician; but such a one must be himself a physician; and the same holds true in every other practice and art: and as a physician ought [1282a] to give an account of his practice to a physician, so ought it to be in other…
Aristotle, Politics
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Moreover, since Happiness is a kind of working of the soul in the way of perfect Excellence, we must enquire concerning Excellence: for so probably shall we have a clearer view concerning Happiness; and again, he who is really a statesman is generally thought to have spent most pains on this, for he wishes to make the citizens good and obedient to the laws. (For examples of this class we have the lawgivers of the…
Aristotle, The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
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Earlier in the century there was a period of great activity in the production of editions of the Classics, in which Gaisford played a great part and to which many foreign scholars like Wyttenbach and Dindorf gave their support. Later, in the Secretaryships of Kitchin (for many years afterwards Dean of Durham) and of Bartholomew Price, new ground was broken with the famous _Clarendon Press Series_ of school books by…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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- Latin
- Stoicism
- Aristotle
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- The Times
- Epicureanism
- University of London
- Loeb Classical Library
- Diogenes Laertius
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Part of Mind–body dualism.