In fact, the name dianthus, coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, is derived from the Greek words dios (divine) and anthos (flower). From Wordnik.com. [What in Carnation?] Reference
According to Theophrastus, a disciple of Plato and. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
In this light let us examine the work of Theophrastus. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Theophrastus, bear indeed a resemblance to each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
'Twas a stylish congregation, that of Theophrastus Brown 18. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Theophrastus was his friend and disciple, both at Stagira and. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Greeks: Theophrastus mentions hazel nuts but nothing about walnuts. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Babylon, with the best species of palms, are mentioned by Theophrastus. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Theophrastus was the originator of the science of Botany, and wrote the. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Theophrastus, Democritus, and Xenophon; and Latin writers like Cato and Varro. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Theophrastus who specialized in natural science the school had lost its comprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
All applauded excepting Theophrastus, who made a grimace as behoved a well-bred man like him. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Theophrastus understood the value of developmental study, a conception derived from his master. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He was educated under the illustrious Theophrastus, from whom he learned philosophy and composition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Pliny and Paladius, wrote more or less fully of its cultivation and uses. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
But Theophrastus shows by many examples that he is capable of following out morphological homologies. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
"It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.". From Wordnik.com. [Kog Zadare, only living person...] Reference
We are fortunate, however, in the possession of a couple of complete works by his pupil and successor Theophrastus. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Theophrastus tells us that there are certain trees, the fig among them, which are apt to shed their fruit prematurely. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The gardens of Epicurus, and of Pisistratus, Cimon, and Theophrastus, were the most famous of any in the Grecian empire. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
Page 71 of Theophrastus and seeing the Lenaea and Chytri, in contrast to the lavish Macedonian feasts of his correspondent. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Theophrastus, a teacher of marvellous popularity, who has brought together two thousand pupils from all parts of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Astrology of old taught the influence of the stars upon men, which doctrine was accepted by the great physician Theophrastus. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Archimedes; it was long before biological science outgrew the knowledge bequeathed to us by Aristotle, by Theophrastus and by. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Compare the remark of Zeno in reference to the number of Theophrastus 'scholars, "His is a larger body, but mine are better taught.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Developing the same idea, Theophrastus, urging men to acquire learning rather than to put their trust in money, states the case thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
But neither Thales, nor Theophrastus, nor Pliny the elder, nor any ancient, could conceive of a fact but dimly guessed until the day of. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Theophrastus left them, with his own works, to a philosophical friend and pupil, Neleus, who conveyed them from Athens to his residence at. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
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