 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...the blessed, being born throughout the time in all manners of mortal forms ... I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a dumb fish in the sea", he laments. And now that these wandering spirits are ensepulchred in flesh, he mourns that "We have... | |
 | John Dufresne - Fiction - 1997 - 324 pages
...was in here Wednesday night, I guess it was, looking for you. I thought, Kids! 18. For I Have Already Been a Boy and a Girl, a Bush and a Bird and a Leaping Journeying Fish WE WERE DUE IN MlLLBURY AT NOON. TRIXIE WAS HOSTING A COOKOUT IN THE gravelly... | |
 | David Sacks - Greece - 1995 - 330 pages
...renewed state of bliss. In the Purifications' most famous verse, Empedocles declares, "Already I have been a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird, and speechless fish in the sea." The Orphicderived notion of the soul's transmigration was also a feature... | |
 | Guy Murchie - Fiction - 1999 - 708 pages
...beginning of the world," A century later came Empedokles who mystically announced: "I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a dumb fish in the sea." Another certainly was Lucretius who wrote in Rome that "the new-born Earth first flung up herbs and... | |
 | Gary A. Stilwell - History - 2000 - 405 pages
...blessed, being born throughout the time in all manners of mortal forms, 331 (117) For I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a dumb fish in the sea. (118) I wept and I wailed when I saw the unfamiliar land. (119) From what honor, from what a height... | |
 | Anthony Gottlieb - Philosophy - 2000 - 490 pages
...and could be reincarnated as plants or animals as well as people. He himself had 'already been once a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a leaping journeying fish'. How do such Pythagorean ravings fit in with the sober chemical theory of... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters, Lisa Portmess - Religion - 2001 - 220 pages
...first, before I contrived the wretched deed of eating flesh with my lips. For I have already been once a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a leaping journeying fish. Apollonious of Tyana: Sweet Offerings PHILOSTRATUS We know almost nothing... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...exile and a wanderer from the gods, the bondsman of insensate strife. RP 141 A. For I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a glittering fish in the sea. RP 141 B. • • •••••••• I wept and I wailed when I saw... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1909 - 1262 pages
...we may guess from what we know of Empedokles' views.3 That sage in his own works claims that he had been a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird, and a dumb fish in the sea. He claims to be a present deity, and he tells us, and it seems to have been true, that he went through... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1909 - 1918 pages
...we may guess from what we know of Empedokles' views.3 That sage in his own works claims that he had been a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird, and a dumb fish in the sea. He claims to be a present deity, and he tells us, and it seems to have been true, that he went through... | |
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For I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and a dumb fish in the sea. 
