Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . m,he supplied him with eight hundred talents, and in his Asiatic expedition em-ployed above a thousand men to collect animals, either in fishing, hunting, orhawking, which were carefully transmitted to the philosopher. Aristotleslogic has long reigned in the schools, and been regarded as the perfect modelof all imitation. The letter w
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . m,he supplied him with eight hundred talents, and in his Asiatic expedition em-ployed above a thousand men to collect animals, either in fishing, hunting, orhawking, which were carefully transmitted to the philosopher. Aristotleslogic has long reigned in the schools, and been regarded as the perfect modelof all imitation. The letter which Philip wrote to Aristotle has been preserved,and is in these words : I inform you I have a son; I thank the gods, not somuch lor making me a father, as for given me a son in an age when he can haveAristotle for his instructor. I hope you will make him a successor worthy ofme, and a king worthy of Macedonia. Aristotle had a son, whom he calledNicomachus (the name his father bore), and for whose use and improvemen*he composed his ten books of morals, thence called Nicomachea. His treatises have been published separately ; but the best edition of the work*collectively, is that of Duval, 2 vols. fol. Paris, 1629. ALEXANDER THE GREAT. ALEXANDER THE Portrait of Alexander.—Enlarged from a Coin in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, whose heroism is so universally a theme, was th«son of Philip, king of Macedon, by Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemus, kingof Epirus, and born B. C. 356 ; the same year in which the temple of Dianaat Ephesus was destroyed. Alexander received his education under Lysima-chus and Aristotle, and gave several proofs of manly skill and courage whilevery young; one of which, the breaking-in of his fiery steed, Bucephalus, ismentioned by all his historians as an incident which convinced his father ofhis future unconquerable spirit. Alexander was much attached to his mother,and sided with her in the disputes which led to her di
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