 Py thagorases, the Platos, the Aristotles; all these men whose names are now so celebrated. Let us suppose them viewing the flight of Phaeton, rising on the wind ; ignorant at the same time of the construction of the theatre, and the cords by which the...  Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - Page 9by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) - 1803 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of - 1920 - 246 pages
...as theatrical representations. . . . Figure to yourself as spectators of an opera, the Pythagorases, the Platos, the Aristotles ; all these men whose names...the phenomenon says, " It is some hidden virtue in Phaeton which causes him to rise " ; another replies, " Phaeton is composed of certain numbers which... | |
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