 | Pausanias - Greece - 1794 - 440 pages
...JSerility : for in thefe periods a fertility or fterility of men, animals and plants takes place ; fo that in fertile periods mankind will be both more numerous, and -upon the whole fuperior in mental and bodily endowments to the men of a barren period. And a fimilar reafoning muft... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Platonists - 1805 - 56 pages
...Plato, periods of fertility * and sterility: for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants takes place ; so that in fertile periods mankind will be * The so much celebrated heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Arithmetic - 1816 - 308 pages
...propriety, periods of fertility and sterility. For in these periods, a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants, takes place ; so that in fertile...heroic age, was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men transcending the herd of mankind, both in practical and intellectual virtue,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 642 pages
...propriety, periods of fertility and iterility ; for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants, takes place; so that in fertile...mankind will be both more numerous, and, upon the whole, seperior in mental and bodily endowments to the men of a barren period : and asimilar reasoning must... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...propriety, periods o{ fertility and sterility : for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants takes place ; so that in fertile...reasoning must be extended to animals and plants. This is signified by Plato, though obscurely, in the following passage from the eighth book of his... | |
 | Pausanias (the traveller) - 1824 - 410 pages
...propriety, periods of fertility and sterility : for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants takes place ; so that in fertile...reasoning must be extended to animals and plants. This is signified by Plato, though obscurely, in the following passage from the eighth book of his... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...propriety, periods of fertility and sterility : for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants takes place ; so that in fertile...reasoning must be extended to animals and plants. This is signified by Plato, though obscurely, in the following passage from the eighth book of his... | |
 | Leonard Marsh - Religion - 1854 - 206 pages
...reader will perceive bye and bye, it appears to be unavoidable. But to the promised quotation. — " The different periods in which these mutations happen,...heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending the herd of mankind, both in practical and intellectual virtue,... | |
 | Manly P. Hall - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 137 pages
...propriety, periods of fertility and sterility. For in these periods, a fertility or sterility of men, animals, and plants takes place; so that in fertile...heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men transcending the herd of mankind, both in practical and intellectual virtue,... | |
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The different periods in which these mutations happen are called by Plato, with great propriety, periods of fertility and sterility; for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, irrational animals, and plants takes place; so that in fertile periods... 
