The cult thus corresponds to a Lucretian lapsus in antiquas religiones. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
As regards the atomistic prefigura - tion of the man-machine, it will suffice to summarize the Lucretian version. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Though he disagreed with the Lucretian/Epicuran idea that matter is governed by "blind chance" rather than binding. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Although modern readers will find the details of this physiology hopelessly outdated, they can usefully replace Lucretian. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretius] Reference
The Epicurean-Lucretian theory of the “minute swerving of the elements” enjoyed an unexpected re - vival in the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS] Reference
Lévi-Strauss sees man with a Lucretian pessimism, and a Lucretian feeling for knowledge as both consolation and necessary disenchantment. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of our Time] Reference
In the whole Lucretian treatment of love there is nothing really. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
At their best, they carry us into the realm of Lucretian imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
In like manner, the Lucretian conception of Ennui is wholly Roman. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
It would be difficult to parallel such Lucretian passages in Greek poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
This may be prose, but it has not a little of the magnificence of the Lucretian logic. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
Roman again, in the true sense of the word, is the Lucretian philosophy of Conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
And furthermore, the cognizant eye of a Lucretian Alma Mater having seat so strongly in. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Ever yours E.F. G. 'Sed genus humanum damnat caligo F.turi' -- a Lucretian line from Juvenal. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II] Reference
He was not a Sceptic as you may imagine, nor had he adopted the Lucretian form of Epicureanism. From Wordnik.com. [First and Last] Reference
The book suggests how the Lucretian theory of development might have led to the idea of Progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
And furthermore, the cognizant eye of a Lucretian Alma Mater having seat so strongly in Victor, demanded as. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
On the Lucretian, Epicurean view, he suffers no deprivation since he cannot experience the consequences your action. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
Rimini, Tasso's Erminia and Clorinda; but he might have supplied a superb illustration to the opening lines of the Lucretian epic, where. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Well, I never!’ and similar Lucretian ejaculations. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
This Lucretian ˜symmetry argument™ (see Warren 2004; also. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretius] Reference
Gassendi agrees with Hobbes (and shares a Lucretian inspiration (Sarasohn. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Gassendi] Reference
2001, ˜Lucretian palingenesis recycled™, Classical Quarterly 51: 499-508. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretius] Reference
Lucretian of modern writers. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories] Reference
What is the moral, my Lucretian?. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Such build their poems the Lucretian way. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Lucretian introduced in the Belfast Address. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Lucretian science is borrowed in passages like i. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
This wife account Lucretian fages give. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
Payne Knight's explicitly Lucretian The. From Wordnik.com. [Progress of Society] Reference
The Lucretian version of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Lucretian. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Lucretian poem. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Lucretian origin of a verse in, 138. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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