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... soul , cannot be approached without calling up thoughts too serious to be dealt with as mere points of scholarship ; and some recently published remarks on the subject appeared to require notice . If the present volume should find ...
... soul , cannot be approached without calling up thoughts too serious to be dealt with as mere points of scholarship ; and some recently published remarks on the subject appeared to require notice . If the present volume should find ...
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... soul . ' And why , ' said I , ' should we not strip his soul rather than his body , and look at that ? He is old enough , I think , to sustain a conversation .'- ' Certainly , ' said Critias ; he has a turn for philosophy , and as he ...
... soul . ' And why , ' said I , ' should we not strip his soul rather than his body , and look at that ? He is old enough , I think , to sustain a conversation .'- ' Certainly , ' said Critias ; he has a turn for philosophy , and as he ...
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... soul : and that this was the reason why the greater part of diseases baffled the Greek physicians ; that they did not know enough about the whole man , body and soul to- gether , which they had to do with ; and which 10 they must put in ...
... soul : and that this was the reason why the greater part of diseases baffled the Greek physicians ; that they did not know enough about the whole man , body and soul to- gether , which they had to do with ; and which 10 they must put in ...
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... soul first , that I may work on it with the Thracian's charms , I will let you have , besides this , a cure for the headache . But if not , I can do nothing for you , my dear Char- mides . ' " When Critias heard me speak thus , he said ...
... soul first , that I may work on it with the Thracian's charms , I will let you have , besides this , a cure for the headache . But if not , I can do nothing for you , my dear Char- mides . ' " When Critias heard me speak thus , he said ...
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... soul in the midst of the ruins which surround him and on the brink of universal skepticism . " - The reader who has perused the conversa- tion of Socrates with the boys Lysis and Menexenus will judge for himself how far this eloquent ...
... soul in the midst of the ruins which surround him and on the brink of universal skepticism . " - The reader who has perused the conversa- tion of Socrates with the boys Lysis and Menexenus will judge for himself how far this eloquent ...
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