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 | Friedrich Albert Lange - Materialism - 1877 - 364 pages
...enough by Lucretius, for immediately after the splendid poetical introduction to Memmius, he goes on : "When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | George Gillanders Findlay - Bible - 1892 - 464 pages
...alienated from the life of God " denotes an objective position rather than a subjective disposition, * "When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | Friedrich Albert Lange - Materialism - 1892 - 368 pages
...enough by Lucretius, for immediately after the splendid poetical introduction to Memmius, he goes on: "When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering xipon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 pages
...account for everything which exists, or which we can conceive to exist. ON THE EVIL OF SUPERSTITION. WHEN human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | George Otis Draper - Apologetics - 1902 - 594 pages
...a more rational ? And here is one of the philosophers that he thus judges: TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS : When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | Ida Freund - Chemical structure - 1904 - 682 pages
...after its garden1. His Natural 1 An ancient and a modern estimate of Epicurus may find a place here ; " When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of Heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortnls, a man of Greece... | |
 | Agnosticism - 1906 - 802 pages
...the gods, if he only forbear in earnest to stain his mind with foul religion. LUCRETIUS. Human life lay foully prostrate upon earth, crushed down under the weight of religion. PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG, LL.D. I think it must be frankly admitted that what is known about the functions... | |
 | Charles Montague Bakewell - Philosophy, Ancient - 1907 - 460 pages
...and into which nature likewise dissolves them back after their destruction. These we are accustomed in explaining their reason to call matter and begetting...because from them as first elements all things are. *** It 2 is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble its waters, to behold from land another's... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - Poetry - 1910 - 262 pages
...poem he describes this achievement of Epicurus and what it meant for mankind : — "When human life lay foully prostrate upon earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...other thing, and words undoubtedly have no sort of resemblance to the ideas for which they stand. 1 "When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth, crushed down under the weight of Religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering unon mortals, a man of Greece... | |
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