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... tion , it is said , which the world had ever seen . So a library is begun by Soter , and organized and completed by Philadelphus ; or rather two libraries , for while one part was kept at the Serapeium , that vast temple on the inland ...
... tion , it is said , which the world had ever seen . So a library is begun by Soter , and organized and completed by Philadelphus ; or rather two libraries , for while one part was kept at the Serapeium , that vast temple on the inland ...
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... tion of their most literary monarch , Ptolemy Philadelphus . Alexander the Ætolian collected and revised the tragedies , Lycophron the come- dies , Zenodotus the poems of Homer , and the other poets of the Epic cycle , now lost to us ...
... tion of their most literary monarch , Ptolemy Philadelphus . Alexander the Ætolian collected and revised the tragedies , Lycophron the come- dies , Zenodotus the poems of Homer , and the other poets of the Epic cycle , now lost to us ...
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... tion to man , or without relation to him . Even in those who flatly deny the existence of the gods , even in Lucretius himself , these questions have to be considered , before the question , What is man ? can get any solution at all ...
... tion to man , or without relation to him . Even in those who flatly deny the existence of the gods , even in Lucretius himself , these questions have to be considered , before the question , What is man ? can get any solution at all ...
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... tion would affect different minds very differently . It drove the Epicurean to consider how he might make a world in which he should live comfort- ably , without distracting visions of the past and future , and the dread of those upper ...
... tion would affect different minds very differently . It drove the Epicurean to consider how he might make a world in which he should live comfort- ably , without distracting visions of the past and future , and the dread of those upper ...
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... tion . There was an infinite difference between them and the old Hebrew writers . They had lost something which those old prophets pos- sessed . I invite you to ponder , each for him- self , on the causes of this strange loss ; bearing ...
... tion . There was an infinite difference between them and the old Hebrew writers . They had lost something which those old prophets pos- sessed . I invite you to ponder , each for him- self , on the causes of this strange loss ; bearing ...
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