 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Emperors - 1701 - 460 pages
...which Subfifts at prefent, is as it were the Seed of Sitcceffion, which fprings from it. But if you take Seed in the Common Notion, and Confine it to...you are, and what you are not? Han't you done with unnecefiaryDefires? Are you not yet above Difturbance and Sufpicion, and fully convinc'd that nothing... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Emperors - 1726 - 360 pages
...fubfifts fubfifts at prefent, is, as it were, the Seed of Succeffion, which fprings from it. But if you take Seed in the common Notion, and confine it to the Field, or the Garden, you have a dull Fanfy. XXXVII. You are juft taking leave of the World ; and don't you know what you are, and what you... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Ethics - 1887 - 256 pages
...For that which exists at present is, as it were, the seed of what shall spring from it. But if you take seed in the common notion, and confine it to the field or the womb, you have a dull fancy. 37. You are just taking leave of the world, and yet you have not done... | |
 | Alice Kemp-Welch - Formal gardens - 1913 - 282 pages
...which subsists at present is, as it were, the seed of succession, which springs from it. But if you take seed in the common notion, and confine it to the field or the garden, you have a dull fancy. It is with a sense of relief that we turn from the thoughts which a garden suggests to this stoic,... | |
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... Aurelius ! Philosopher as he was, he would have us learn from plants the lesson of cause and effect, the continuity of life. He says : The destruction of one thing is the making of another; and that which subsists at present is, as it were, the seed... 