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... less a sympathizer with Lewes , and in the elaborate examination of the spe- culations of the Ancients contained in the same Author's Plato and Aristotle . During the same interval the charm and the wit and the irony of Plato have for ...
... less a sympathizer with Lewes , and in the elaborate examination of the spe- culations of the Ancients contained in the same Author's Plato and Aristotle . During the same interval the charm and the wit and the irony of Plato have for ...
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... less advance in the knowledge of man as a moral and intellectual being . Thus , Deductive Logic remains in its essentials the same as when it was first given to the world by Aristotle , and neither in Psychology nor in Ethics can it be ...
... less advance in the knowledge of man as a moral and intellectual being . Thus , Deductive Logic remains in its essentials the same as when it was first given to the world by Aristotle , and neither in Psychology nor in Ethics can it be ...
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... less than ' Being , ' and was no less essential as an άpxý , since without it motion would be impossible . The atoms are absolutely solid and incompressible , they are without any secondary qualities , and differ only in size ( and ...
... less than ' Being , ' and was no less essential as an άpxý , since without it motion would be impossible . The atoms are absolutely solid and incompressible , they are without any secondary qualities , and differ only in size ( and ...
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... less than thy neighbours , and be equally on thy guard against wrong- 1 * Ανθρωποι τύχης εἴδωλον ἐπλάσαντο , πρόφασιν ἰδίης ἀβουλίης . 2 Α ' μεγάλαι τέρψιες ἀπὸ τοῦ θεᾶσθαι τὰ καλὰ τῶν ἔργων γίνονται . doing , whether all or none shall ...
... less than thy neighbours , and be equally on thy guard against wrong- 1 * Ανθρωποι τύχης εἴδωλον ἐπλάσαντο , πρόφασιν ἰδίης ἀβουλίης . 2 Α ' μεγάλαι τέρψιες ἀπὸ τοῦ θεᾶσθαι τὰ καλὰ τῶν ἔργων γίνονται . doing , whether all or none shall ...
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... less true of all the early phi- losophers . The sage , no less than the poet , believed himself the organ of a special inspiration , which , in the case of the former , revealed to him the inner truth of nature ; those who were worthy ...
... less true of all the early phi- losophers . The sage , no less than the poet , believed himself the organ of a special inspiration , which , in the case of the former , revealed to him the inner truth of nature ; those who were worthy ...
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