 | 1833 - 540 lehte
...up in the pithy observation of Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that • the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow.' AGRIMO'NIA is the name of a plant of the rose-tribe, to which the English givu the... | |
 | 1833 - 1092 lehte
...summed up in the pithy observation of Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that 'the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow.' AGRIMO'NI A is the name of a plant of the rose-tribe, to which the English give the... | |
 | Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 lehte
...800,000 inhabitants. They exhibited considerable taste in the fine arts, and it was observed by Plato, they built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as though they were to die on the morrow. It is impossible to account for the great magnificence of this... | |
 | 1866 - 674 lehte
...were in this instance seamen. lirnpedocles. a native of the samo city, says that "the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow." TJ BÜCKTON. lirixton Hill. , • ' *« THE PRINCESS ГСШАТО\У8К1. (3 rd S.... | |
 | Seven wonders - 1854 - 384 lehte
...in their buildings exhibited a considerable taste in the fine arts, and it was observed by Plato, " They built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as though they were to die on the morrow." Their duration was marvellously short, for only 150 years after... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1861 - 696 lehte
...wealthy Romans of the time seem to have resembled those people of Agrigentum, who, as Plato said, " built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were always about to die." The luxurious manner in which the patrician families lived in the reign of Augustus... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1865 - 444 lehte
...here, and afterwards threw himself into Ktna, said of his townsmen, that they "built as if they wore to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die to-morrow." 282 the world, after that of Ephesus. It wag 340 feet long, 60 broad, and 120 feet to the peak of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 lehte
...summed up in the pithy observation of Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that " the Agrigentiues built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow." The town was mainly indebted for ita great wealth to the extraordinary fertility of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 598 lehte
...summed up in the pithy observation of Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that "the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow." The town was mainly indebted for its great wealth to the extraordinary fertility of... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1410 lehte
...found in this last manifestation of fiction pastiche. ' Yes,' says a young man at a dinner party, ' the people here remind me of what Empedocles said...ever, and feasted as if they were to die to-morrow.' The author of this light and easy remark is a youth avowedly without any education, who has just presented... | |
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Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that • the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow. 
