Pliny

Examples

• Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The attractive power of amber is mentioned by Theophrastus and Pliny, and from them by later naturalists. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was of the second kind mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was more than an ancient observation that came down to Pliny's time for record, that water would rise to a level with its source. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was succeeded by Pliny, who also fell a victim to his thirst for knowledge. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Romans are said to have had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Accounts of Pliny and Ansonius as to Planes and Marble Sawing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It always and eternally transpires that St. Paul has been to that place, and Pliny has mentioned it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Pliny thought that each plant had its special virtue, and much of his botan y is applied botany. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The pear, though cultivated in classical times, appears, from Pliny's description, to have been a fruit of very inferior quality. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• When we read in Pliny, therefore, that Seius {Lib. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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