T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex: Explanatory notesDeighton Bell and Company, 1893 |
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T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Explanatory note Titus Lucretius Carus Vista completa - 1928 |
Términos y frases comunes
Accius aether Anaxagoras anima animi animus Arnob atoms atque autem body caeli caelum Caes Catull Catullus causa Cicero comp constr corpore Democritus Diog earth eius Empedocles enim Ennius Epic epicurean Epicurus epist etiam expression first-beginnings foll force genus geor Greek haec Heraclitus igitur ignis imitated inque inscr ipsa Lach Latin Livy Lucr Lucretius magno meaning mihi motus multa nature neque nihil nunc omne omnia omnis Ovid Pacuvius passage Plaut Pliny poet possit quae quam quia quibus quid quod quoque quoted rebus refers rerum saepe says seems sense sensus shews soul summa sunt Tacitus tamen terra things tibi Tusc Varro verse VIII Virg Virgil vita word writers γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ κατὰ μὲν μὴ οὐκ τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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Página 78 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Página 237 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
Página 75 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Página 279 - I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Página 235 - And since the extension, figure, number, and motion of bodies of an observable bigness, may be perceived at a distance by the sight, it is evident some singly imperceptible bodies must come from them to the eyes, and thereby convey to the brain some motion which produces these ideas which we have of them in us.
Página 250 - I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Página 78 - Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in...
Página 297 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 248 - twere a little sky Gulphed in a world below ; A firmament of purple light, Which in the dark earth lay...
Página 143 - The Parts of all homogeneal hard Bodies which fully touch one another, stick together very strongly. And for explaining how this may be, some have invented hooked Atoms, which is begging the Question; and others tell us that Bodies are glued together by rest, that is, by an occult Quality, or rather by nothing; and others, that they stick together by conspiring Motions, that is, by relative rest amongst themselves.