| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1841 - Liczba stron: 806
...could not explain them. At length one of the 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 (Edipus : he said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps... | |
| 1848 - Liczba stron: 306
...destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained — in this enigma she wanted to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. This OEdipus explains, by stating that man in childhood (morning) walks on his hands and feet ; in... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1852 - Liczba stron: 114
...thus ran the oraeular saying on whose solution so mueh depended — " What is that animal whieh walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? " Doubtless most of our readers are aequainted with the answer l for the benefit of sueh as are not,... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1855 - Liczba stron: 772
...could not explain them. At length one of the 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... | |
| E. W. Payne - 1858 - Liczba stron: 192
...have destroyed herself when CEdipus expounded her famous riddle, ' "What animal is that which walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? ' " The Egyptians sculptured six varieties of sphinx ; the simple lions, such as those in red granite... | |
| George Leighton Ditson - 1858 - Liczba stron: 638
...monster, called forth the powers of QEdipus, who solved the following question : What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening? QEdipus said that man, when young, 194 A PILGRIMAGE FROM PARIS TO ETHIOPIA. went on his hands and feet,... | |
| David Austin Randall - 1862 - Liczba stron: 732
...an end to herself if one of her riddles was explained. At last came this enigma: " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" The terrified inhabitants offered a crowu and the daughter of a king for a wife to any one who would... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1867 - Liczba stron: 630
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1869 - Liczba stron: 216
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age... | |
| William Charles Mark Kent - 1870 - Liczba stron: 144
...sister Jocasta to whoever should prove conqueror. Lured by this bribe, CEdipus solved the enigma as to what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, by answering that man walked on his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of his life, at the... | |
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