| Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1838 - Počet stránok 420
...And, we understand, when we speak of it; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not: yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not; and if nothing were... | |
| Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1840 - Počet stránok 460
...And, we understand, when we speak of it ; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time ? If no one asks me, I know : if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not : yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not ; and if nothing were... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1854 - Počet stránok 194
...And, we understand, when we speak of it ; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time ? If no one asks me, I know : if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not : yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not ; and if nothing were... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 - Počet stránok 736
...And, we understand, when we speak of it ; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time ? If no one asks me, I know : if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not : yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not ; and if nothing were... | |
| Augustine (st.) - 1882 - Počet stránok 186
...which we have entirely forgotten, we cannot even seek after. — Conf. x. cc. 18, 19. XIV. VS7HAT, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know ; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I know not. Yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1897 - Počet stránok 926
...the fundamental notion of Time itself, he exclaims : " Quod ergo est tempus ? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio : si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio." What, then, is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to one who asks, I know not. (Confessions, xi., 14.) But the great... | |
| George Stuart Fullerton - 1904 - Počet stránok 652
...perceive periods of time, and compare them with one another, and call some longer, others shorter."1 "What then, is time? if no one asks me, I know; if I try to explain it to one who asks, I do not know ; yet, I say with confidence that I know." The position... | |
| 1906 - Počet stránok 134
...time? And we understand when we speak of it; we understand, also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What, then, is time? If no one asks me I know; if I wish to explain it to one that asketb, I know not ; yet I say boldly that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not;... | |
| Stephen Southric Hebberd - 1911 - Počet stránok 232
...refer to that famous, oft-quoted passage from one of the world's greatest thinkers, St. Augustine: "What then is time ? If no one asks me, I know ; if I try to explain it to one who asks, I do not know ; yet I say with confidence that I know. But if nothing... | |
| Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1920 - Počet stránok 380
...And, we understand, when we speak of it ; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time ? If no one asks me, I know : if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not : yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not; and if nothing were... | |
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