 | Pausanias - Greece - 1794 - 440 pages
...celebrated heroic age, therefore, was the refult of one of thefe fertile periods, in which men, tranfcending the herd of mankind both in practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth. But in confequence of that beautiful progreffion of things which takes place throughput the univerfe,... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Arithmetic - 1816 - 308 pages
...extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated heroic age, was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men transcending the herd of mankind,...practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth. With respect to the epithet divinely generated, it is well observed by the Greek scholiast, " that... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...parts of the Platonic philosophy, see my Introduction to the Timnus of Plato. of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending the herd of mankind...practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth. But in consequence of that beautiful progression of things which takes place throughout the universe,... | |
 | Pausanias (the traveller) - 1824 - 410 pages
...parts of the Platonic philosophy, aee my Introduction to the Tinueus of Plato. of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending the herd of mankind...practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth. But in consequence of that beautiful progression of things which takes place throughout the universe,... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...parts of the Platonic philosophy, see my Introduction to the Timaeus of Plato. of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending the herd of mankind...practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth. But in consequence of that beautiful progression of things which takes place throughout the universe,... | |
 | Leonard Marsh - Religion - 1854 - 206 pages
...extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men, transcending the herd of mankind,...the Augustan age, the destruction of all the great cities, with all their rites, philosophy, &c., being the natural consequence of such a period. It appears... | |
 | Manly P. Hall - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 137 pages
...extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men transcending the herd of mankind,...practical and intellectual virtue, abounded on the earth."T Referring to Plato's universal cycle, Thorndike notes that the statement in The Tinaeus "seems... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 610 pages
...extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated heroic age was the result of one of these fertile periods, in which men transcending the herd of mankind...practical and intellectual virtue abounded on the earth. With respect to, the epithet divinely generated, it is well observed by the Greek scholiast, " that... | |
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... place ; so that in fertile periods mankind will be both more numerous, and upon the whole, superior in mental and bodily endowments, to the men of a barren period. And a similar reasoning must be extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated... 