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" Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, earth that of water. "
History of the Literature of Ancient Greece - Page 244
by Karl Otfried Müller - 1840 - 389 pages
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The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volume 2

Maximus (of Tyre) - 1804 - 286 pages
...one thing living the death, but dying the life of another. Thus fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, and earth lives the death of water. You see a succession of life, and a mutation of bodies, both which...
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The dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, tr. by T. Taylor, Volume 2

Maximus (Tyrius.) - 1804 - 288 pages
...thing living the death, but dying the life of another. Thus fire lives the death of earth, and a\r lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, and earth lives the death of water. You see a succession of life, and a mutation of bodies, both which...
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Vestiges of the Spirit-history of Man

Samuel Fales Dunlap - Religion - 1858 - 424 pages
...has any stable or permanent existence, but that every thing is assuming a new form or perishing. Fire lives the death of the earth ; air lives the death...universal substance, which mutually destroy each other. In like 1 Weber, Ind. Stud. i. 252. MVuttke, ii. 291; Lassen Ind. Alterthumskunde, 682, 777. ' Egypte,...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Ancient Greeks: With an Historical ...

Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...not as something individual, but only as another form of something else. ' Fire,' he again remarks, ' lives the death of the earth ; air lives the death...the death of air ; and the earth, that of water.' His meaning here seems to be, that individual things are only different forms of a universal substance,...
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Early Greek Philosophy

John Burnet - Philosophy, Ancient - 1892 - 420 pages
...became earth.21 RP 81. (24.) Fire is want and satiety. RP 29a. (25.) Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of air, earth that of water. RP 30 A. (26.) Fire will come upon and lay hold of all things.22 RP 29rt. (27.)...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 11

1903 - 642 pages
...of all sea (and half of sea is earth, and half storm cloud).1 —Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, earth that of water."* He regarded the seasons, rains and winds, and day and night, as due to different...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 11

1903 - 648 pages
...of all sea (and half of sea is earth, and half storm cloud).1 — Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, earth that of water."* He regarded the seasons, rains and winds, and day and night, as due to different...
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The Library of Original Sources: The Greek world

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...became earth. RP 31. 24. Fire is want and satiety. R .P. 2ca. 25. Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, earth that of water. RP 30 A. 26. Fire will come upon and lay hold of all things. RP aga. 27. How can...
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A Student's History of Philosophy

Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 534 pages
...something else, and has an existence only in relation to this process. " Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of air, earth that of water." We have, accordingly, in Heracleitus, the first philosophic statement of the...
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Greek Philosophy, an Introduction

Margaret Elizabeth Jane Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1924 - 158 pages
...of rarefaction or condensation : it is a real transformation. ' Fire lives the death of earth, and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air, earth that of water.' ' All things are exchanged for fire, and fire for all things, as wares for gold,...
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