The First Philosophers of Greece, Том 3Arthur Fairbanks K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1898 - 300 страници |
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... earth rests on water ) , getting the idea , I suppose , because he saw that the nourishment of all beings is moist , and that warmth itself is gene- rated from moisture and persists in it ( for that from which all things spring is the ...
... earth rests on water ) , getting the idea , I suppose , because he saw that the nourishment of all beings is moist , and that warmth itself is gene- rated from moisture and persists in it ( for that from which all things spring is the ...
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... earth rests on water . 294 a 28. Some say that We have ascertained that the oldest statement of this character is the one accredited to Thales the Milesian , to the effect that it rests on water , floating like a piece of wood or ...
... earth rests on water . 294 a 28. Some say that We have ascertained that the oldest statement of this character is the one accredited to Thales the Milesian , to the effect that it rests on water , floating like a piece of wood or ...
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... earth rests on water . Thales is the first to have set on foot the investigation of nature by the Greeks ; although so many others preceded him , in Theophrastos's opinion he so far surpassed them as to cause them to be forgotten . It ...
... earth rests on water . Thales is the first to have set on foot the investigation of nature by the Greeks ; although so many others preceded him , in Theophrastos's opinion he so far surpassed them as to cause them to be forgotten . It ...
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... earth , water , air , fire , elements ; and we call them first principles for the reason that there is nothing antecedent to them from which they are sprung , since this would not be a first principle , but rather that from which it is ...
... earth , water , air , fire , elements ; and we call them first principles for the reason that there is nothing antecedent to them from which they are sprung , since this would not be a first principle , but rather that from which it is ...
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... earth , the earth coming between the two heavenly bodies and blocking the light of the moon . 28 ; 358 . Thales Aet . iii . 9-10 ; 376. The earth is one and spherical in form . 11 ; 377. It is in the midst of the universe . 15 ; 379 ...
... earth , the earth coming between the two heavenly bodies and blocking the light of the moon . 28 ; 358 . Thales Aet . iii . 9-10 ; 376. The earth is one and spherical in form . 11 ; 377. It is in the midst of the universe . 15 ; 379 ...
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Страница 44 - In the same rivers we step and we do not step.; we are and we are not.
Страница 31 - All things are exchanged for fire, and fire for all things ; as wares are exchanged for gold, and gold for wares.
Страница 29 - Much learning does not teach one to have understanding ; else it would have taught Hesiod, and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes, and Hekataios.
Страница 67 - Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their bodies in the image of their several kinds.
Страница 237 - TEANSLATION. 1. All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness ; for the small also was infinite. And when they were all together, nothing was clear and distinct because of their smallness ; for air and aether comprehended all things, both being infinite ; for these are present in everything, and are greatest both as to number and as to greatness.
Страница 33 - God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Страница 29 - This order, the same for all things, no one of gods or men has made, but it always was, and is, and ever shall be, an ever-living fire, kindling according to fixed measure, and extinguished according to fixed measure.
Страница 41 - For to souls it is death to become water, and for water it is death to become earth ; but water is formed from earth, and from water, soul.
Страница 93 - ... eye careless, thine ear and thy tongue overpowered by noise; but do thou weigh the much contested refutation of their words, which I have uttered. There is left but this single path to tell thee of: namely, that being is. And on this path there are many proofs that being is without beginning and indestructible; it is universal, existing alone, immovable and without end; nor ever was it nor will it be, since it now is, all together, one, and continuous.
Страница 82 - It [ie being] always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another.