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Tam magis expressus salsus de corpore sudor | 48,323 |
Augebat mare manando camposque natantis. | 48,323 |
Quoniam nec venae perpetiuntur | 48,323 |
Quod satis est neque quantum opus est natura ministrat. | 48,323 |
As a necessary result of a system of natural philosophy based on | 48,323 |
assumptions, largely illustrated indeed, but not corroborated by | 48,323 |
Namque alid ex alio clarescet nec tibi caeca | 48,323 |
Nox iter eripiet quin ultima naturai | 48,323 |
Pervideas: ita res accendent lumina rebus, | 48,323 |
To the general reader there is another aspect, in which it is | 48,323 |
Impia te rationis inire elementa viamque | 48,323 |
Indugredi sceleris, | 48,323 |
show that scientific enquiry had to encounter the same prejudice | 48,323 |
in ancient as in modern times. The insufficiency and audacity of | 48,323 |
Immortalia mortali sermone notantes. | 48,323 |
The views of Lucretius as to the natural origin of life, and the | 48,323 |
and consequent denial of immortality,--and his utilitarianism in | 48,323 |
morals,--all present striking parallels to the opinions of one of | 48,323 |
Scilicet haec aliis praedae lucroque iacebant | 48,323 |
Indupedita suis fatalibus omnia vinclis, | 48,323 |
Donec ad interitum genus id natura redegit. | 48,323 |
The attempt to trace the origin of all supernatural belief to the | 48,323 |
But altogether apart from the truth and falsehood, the right and | 48,323 |
the 'vivida vis animi.' The freshness of feeling and vividness of | 48,323 |
Mente vigenti | 48,323 |
Avia Pieridum peragro loca, | 48,323 |
are as remarkable in the processes of his intellect as of his | 48,323 |
imagination. | 48,323 |
This vigour of understanding is displayed in many processes of | 48,323 |
His system cannot be called either purely inductive or purely | 48,323 |
deductive, though it is more of the former than of the latter. He | 48,323 |
E thuris glaebis evellere odorem | 48,323 |
Haud facile est quin intereat natura quoque eius. | 48,323 |
So also it is difficult to separate his faculty of clear, exact, | 48,323 |
Denique fluctifrago suspensae in litore vestes, | 48,323 |
curiosity of a naturalist, as well as the sympathetic feeling and | 48,323 |
Errant saepe canes itaque et vestigia quaerunt. | 48,323 |
How happily their characteristics are struck off in the line-- | 48,323 |
At levisomna canum fido cum pectore corda. | 48,323 |
Et validis cycni torrentibus ex Heliconis | 48,323 |
Cum liquidam tollunt lugubri voce querellam; | 48,323 |
and again-- | 48,323 |
Parvus ut est cycni melior canor ille gruum quam | 48,323 |
Clamor in aetheriis dispersus nubibus austri. | 48,323 |
The description of sea-birds, | 48,323 |
Mergique marinis | 48,323 |
Fluctibus in salso victum vitamque petentes, | 48,323 |
τανύγλωσσοί τε κορῶναι | 48,323 |
εἰνάλιαι τῇσίν τε θαλάσσια ἔργα μέμηλεν. | 48,323 |
His lively personal observation and active interest in the casual | 48,323 |
Cum lubrica serpens | 48,323 |
Exuit in spinis vestem; nam saepe videmus | 48,323 |
Illorum spoliis vepres volitantibus auctas. | 48,323 |
that overtakes the mind-- | 48,323 |
Adde furorem animi proprium atque oblivia rerum, | 48,323 |
Adde quod in nigras lethargi mergitur undas; | 48,323 |
the bodily waste, produced by long-continuous speaking-- | 48,323 |
Perpetuus sermo nigrai noctis ad umbram | 48,323 |
Aurorae perductus ab exoriente nitore; | 48,323 |
observation of a physician, as well as the profound thought of a | 48,323 |
moralist. | 48,323 |
Quam Grai memorant nec nostra dicere lingua | 48,323 |
Concedit nobis patrii sermonis egestas. | 48,323 |
Lucretius has occasionally to meet the first difficulty by the | 48,323 |
character appears in the links by which his argument is kept | 48,323 |
country, or the first unfolding of some illimitable prospect. | 48,323 |
Nullam rem e nilo gigni divinitus unquam, | 48,323 |
Unde refert nobis victor quid possit oriri, | 48,323 |
Quid nequeat, finita potestas denique cuique | 48,323 |
Quanam sit ratione atque alte terminus haerens. | 48,323 |
Following on his steps the poet himself professes to teach-- | 48,323 |
Quo quaeque creata | 48,323 |
Foedere sint, in eo quam sit durare necessum, | 48,323 |
Nec validas valeant aevi rescindere leges. | 48,323 |
In another place he says-- | 48,323 |
Et quid quaeque queant per foedera naturai | 48,323 |
Quid porro nequeant, sancitum quandoquidem extat. | 48,323 |
Certum ac dispositumst ubi quicquit crescat et insit. | 48,323 |
Libera continuo dominis privata superbis. | 48,323 |
Illud in his rebus videor firmare potesse, | 48,323 |
Usque adeo naturarum vestigia linqui | 48,323 |
Parvola, quae nequeat ratio depellere nobis | 48,323 |
Ut nil inpediat dignam dis degere vitam. | 48,323 |
From these high places of his philosophy,--'the "templa serena" | 48,323 |
well-bulwarked by the learning of the wise' he derives not only a | 48,323 |
Haud igitur penitus pereunt quaecumque videntur, | 48,323 |
Quando alid ex alio reficit natura nec ullam | 48,323 |
Rem gigni patitur nisi morte adiuta aliena? | 48,323 |
Sic aequo geritur certamine principiorum | 48,323 |
Ex infinito contractum tempore bellum. | 48,323 |
and life, support the existing creation in unceasing harmony. The | 48,323 |
Nunc hinc nunc illic superant vitalia rerum, | 48,323 |
Et superantur item. | 48,323 |
decay is no mere war of abstractions: it is the daily and hourly | 48,323 |
Cedit enim rerum novitate extrusa vetustas. | 48,323 |
runners in a race, pass on the torch of life'-- | 48,323 |
Inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum | 48,323 |
Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt. | 48,323 |
Sic alid ex alio numquam desistet oriri | 48,323 |
Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. | 48,323 |