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Page 31
... pessimism of the Epicurean , from which he vainly seeks to find a refuge in this pococurante life , is echoed by the Debater . The lamentations the frailty and shortness of man's life ( ch . vi . 4 , 5 , 12 ) , over over the disorders ...
... pessimism of the Epicurean , from which he vainly seeks to find a refuge in this pococurante life , is echoed by the Debater . The lamentations the frailty and shortness of man's life ( ch . vi . 4 , 5 , 12 ) , over over the disorders ...
Page 41
... pessimists , shrinks from death . He denies , or at least questions , the possibility of knowing that there is a life ... pessimism , into which he fell was as the first stepping - stone to higher things . The course of his life at ...
... pessimists , shrinks from death . He denies , or at least questions , the possibility of knowing that there is a life ... pessimism , into which he fell was as the first stepping - stone to higher things . The course of his life at ...
Page 44
... pessimist Glycon to say of life that it was πάντα γέλως , καὶ πάντα κόνις καὶ πάντα τὸ μηδέν . " All is a jest , and all is dust , and all is nothingness . " From the earlier sages he learnt the maxims that had become the ornaments of ...
... pessimist Glycon to say of life that it was πάντα γέλως , καὶ πάντα κόνις καὶ πάντα τὸ μηδέν . " All is a jest , and all is dust , and all is nothingness . " From the earlier sages he learnt the maxims that had become the ornaments of ...
Page 53
... pessimism of the satiated sen- sualist , and the wisdom , such as it was , of the Epicurean thinker , and the growing faith in God , were heard in strange alternation ; now one , now another uttering itself , as in an inharmonious ...
... pessimism of the satiated sen- sualist , and the wisdom , such as it was , of the Epicurean thinker , and the growing faith in God , were heard in strange alternation ; now one , now another uttering itself , as in an inharmonious ...
Page 71
... pessimism , in the scepticism of an endless doubt ? And so he too adopts , without any hesitation , the form of personated authorship . He has indeed less dramatic power than his predecessor . His Solomon is more remote from the Solomon ...
... pessimism , in the scepticism of an endless doubt ? And so he too adopts , without any hesitation , the form of personated authorship . He has indeed less dramatic power than his predecessor . His Solomon is more remote from the Solomon ...
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