Hortensius

For if it be true, as Cicero says in his treatise called Hortensius, that the great and genuine year is that period in which the heavenly bodies revolve to the station from which their source began; and if this grand rotation of the whole planetary system requires no less than twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty-four years [d] of our computation, it follows that Demosthenes, your boasted ancient, becomes a modern, and even our contemporary; nay, that he lived in the same year with ourselves; I had almost said, in the same month [e].

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Austin refused to delight in Cicero's "Hortensius," because there was not in it the name of Jesus Christ.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

It became fashionable for wealthy Romans, such as Hortensius and Cicero, to stock their country-houses with such works.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Author of "Hortensius," etc., and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

The "Hortensius" of Cicero has not survived till our time, and we know not what it contained; but we cannot fail to notice this testimony of a mature and eminent saint to the spiritual benefit which he had received at the age of thirty-one, from reading the works of a heathen philosopher.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

In pursuance of the idea, an article on 'Hortensius' appeared in a Review as a beginning.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

In fact, in 373, an entirely new inclination manifested itself in his life, brought about by the reading Cicero's "Hortensius" whence he imbibed a love of the wisdom which Cicero so eloquently praises.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Cicero's "Hortensius" (which unfortunately has been lost in the vicissitudes of time) stirred his soul to higher flights and begot a noble enthusiasm for the imperishable beauty of wisdom, made him impatient of the evanescent hopes of men, and carried him onward to further quest of truth.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

'Hortensius' of Cicero, the theatre, we shall find little pasture here for our antiquarian, our purely curious, researches.

Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

"Hortensius" of _Endymion_, whose "sunny face and voice of music" had carried him out of the ruck of London dandies to the chief seat of the

Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886