| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 900
...deftroy herfelf as foon as one of the enigmas (he propfjfed was explainixl. In thil ccigma fhe wifbed to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. Upon thi-> Creon' kirir of Thebes promifed his crown and hi? i.fler Jocalta, the widow of king Lain", in... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...Sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of her enigma's was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noou, and three in the evening. Upon this CreO'i, king of Thebes, promised h>- crown and liia sister... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...Sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of her enigmas was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning,...and three in the evening. Upon this Creon, king of Thebes, promised his crown and his lister Jocasta in marriage to him who could deliver his country... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - عدد الصفحات: 424
...destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning,...and three in the evening. Upon this Creon king of Thebes promised his crown and his sister Jocasta, the widow of king Laius, in marriage to him who could... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and Uree in the evening. Upon this Creon king of Thebes promised his crown and his sister Jocasta, 'he... | |
| 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...the (enigmas she proposed was explained.. In thisaenigma she wished to know what animal walked upon four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, — which was explained by CEdipus, who observed that it was man, who walked on his hands and feet... | |
| John Lemprière - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. ln this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. lt was at last happily explained hy <Edipus, who ohserved that man walked on his hands and feet when... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...to explain them. The Tbebans were told by the orni-le that the sphinx would riseoonas Ol mas ; as, what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and tining. 1 i pon lliis, ( 'mm, king of Th' his crown mid Join marriage to him who should liver his country... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...could not explain them. At length one of tho enigmas, in which she demanded what animal it was which walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night, was solved by CEdipus. He said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma, the question proposed was, what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two...and three in the evening. Upon this, Creon, king of Thebes, promised his crown and his sister Jocasta in marriage to him who should deliver his country... | |
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